Oh, so funny. It hurts. Where, oh where is ‘Souvenir,’ I ask?
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
Video Journalism (multi-day, hands-on workshop)
Instructor: Robb Montgomery
GOAL: Journalists will learn the fundamentals of producing compelling Web video journalism.
Reporters will learn how to set up their cameras and audio gear to produce professional reports from the field; How to shoot and edit sequences, conduct interviews for film and practice with the editing workflow, story editing and principal technologies.
Working in small groups and using their cameras and editing tools, students will get hands-on experience gathering the elements to put together a news video for the Web.
September 18-19
PNA Foundation Training Room
Harrisburg, PA
We cover the following in a multi-day seminar.
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Pennysylvania: Video Journalism workshop for reporters (Two day)
The Indy has a great sit down with the maverick editor of the The Sunday Times who wrote the book on newspaper design 35 ears ago - Sir Harold Evans.
An excerpt:
Harold Evans: ‘These grand designs must have stories to back them up’
“Here’s a thing about innovation,” says Evans sagely. “Nobody has ever predicted the next innovation.” In one respect though he did clearly lay claim to having seen the future: that design would have to take the lead. “Newspaper design cannot go on being so insular if the newspaper is to fulfil its role,” he wrote in Editing and Design.
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Two things: A video that shows how a magazine article is laid out and samples of the handwriting of influential type designers - A “two-fer for Tuesday” as some DJ’s used to say in radio . . . you remember radio? Radio when it was programmed by human DJ’s in real-time don’t you?
The “hot single” is this fun time-lapse video that documents a designer’s work shaping up a magazine spread.
I found this on Swiss designer Tina Roth Eisenberg’s blog.
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Data is all around us and this Radiohead music video and the making of video below illustrate how digital information (Information sent by lasers, reflected off objects and then sensed and recorded by computers) can draw very real and compelling moving images.
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR.
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