Camp VJ Chicago has been a hit according to students and instructors who participated. Director of the J-School at Michigan State Jane Briggs-Bunting attended the fundamentals classes early in the week and blogged about she is leading the charge for her faculty to cross over as digital immigrants. Instructor and newsvideographer blogger, Angela Grant was enamored with her experiences with students, the Chicago venues and the work that Camp VJ students are able to produce in these two day classes. Her post says it all:
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.
Here is a short reel of some footage shot this week in the White Desert and Akabat Desert regions of Egypt’s western desert area. There is so much more material from the five days I spent camping and filming and I will be using the scenes in a new video I am editing this week that brings together many elements of the training and filmmaking I have been producing with Egyptian journalists over the last four weeks. This is just a taste of the movie to come.
I am in Zagreb all week running a workshop for editors from the paper 24Sata.
Here is a short clip showing how locals pay for a tram ride with their mobile phone.
Via Romenesko and Beet.tv comes this crisp interview with Chet Rhodes, Assistant Managing Editor for News Video at the washingtonpost.com. He is a former TV news guy and it is interesting to hear him say that up until now the paper has focused on training reporters and only now has issued five consumer-grade VJ cams to stills shooters.
I like how how he is thinking three years out and understands how Web VJ differs from broadcast TV news in many significant ways. What I don’t hear here in his comments is how the paper and Web site plan to integrate web video reportage from it’s users and readers. Certainly you can have a lot more Web video if you allow your audience to contribute to clips of burning cars on the freeway rather than dispatching staffers to cover these events exclusively. Thoughts? This works in other markets with extraordinary success (24sata in Zagreb, for example is full of reader-submitted video clips of such spot news events and has quadrupled its Web traffic over the last year)
Art Institute, April 8-9, 2008: Speakers and delegates from the Sustainable Manufacturing (GreenPower Conferences) meet in Chicago to share best practices for lowering carbon impact in manufacturing sectors.
I was really glad to get this assignment to shoot a short-film documentary from a conference that has global impact, in more ways than one. So yesterday I filmed and reported from the Loop, the grounds of The Art Institute where dozens of managing directors from global companies shared their success and strategies for reducing their carbon emissions, reducing energy usage, saving money and shaping social policy. Normally I only get hired to report from journo conventions, so this was a nice departure - to be the ONLY journalist at a gathering.
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
