Tag Archive for 'editing'

5 tips for making better video reports

Robb Montgomery films scenes for a documentary in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Five things you need to know about™. . . Video Reporting

A quick tutorial to guide beginners in making better video reports.

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Reporting in video (Denmark)

February 2, 2010
Denmark: (Private event)
This is a pilot project and could result in a four-day video journalism workshop later in the spring.

Reporting in video (Denmark)
Aarhus, denmark
February 02 — 02, 2010

Newstrain: Web video, Social Media (OKLAHOMA)

APME NewsTrain and Mid-America Press Institute present:
The Busy Editor’s Guide to Better Journalism

A two-track workshop offering:
• hands-on classes for editors in boosting their skills at shooting and editing brief web video and using social media to distribute content;
• the best new ideas for setting and maintaining standards, planning multimedia content, online ethical decision-making and more.

When:
Friday and/or Saturday, Sept. 25-26, 2009 - attend one or two full-day sessions.

Where:
Gaylord School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma.
Norman, Okla.

Cost:
$50 registration fee, which includes brownbag lunches on Friday and Saturday and coffee on Saturday morning.

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Newstrain: Web video, Social Media (OKLAHOMA)
Norman, Oklahoma
September 25 — 26, 2009

Multimedia journalism - small cameras for slideshows and videos

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One of the students, Noha Atef- Cairo, attending my multimedia journalism workshop at the Press Syndicate in Cairo made this slideshow after the training event.

Poll: What type of training would you attend in the next 12 months?

Many mono media journalists and journalism educators are asking to be retrained to adapt to the networked journalism era. I design and deliver training for my clients and also for the Visual Editors non-profit. When I train journalists in multimedia, it often tends to be multi-platform as well because of tools and techniques I use to teach with.


Please help me out and take this poll and I’ll publish the results when I am back from my European tour. I love the variety of teaching multi-platform skills and I consider myself very lucky to be able to teach this material to colleagues and educators.

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What will YOU learn at Camp Video Journalism?



Swimming Upstream video

Camp Video Journalism - Orlando focused on training the next generation of educators. We had several K-12 teachers as well as college students taking the course and while I could certainly write more about MY impressions from the sessions, I think it might be more beneficial to relay the feedback I just got from Camp VJ student and Kalamazoo, Michigan educator Anthony Gettig.

Thank you so much for CampVJ Orlando! Lance, Kristen, and I really enjoyed our time in this beautiful city and learned so much during our stay.

Ken, your hospitality was very generous. Thank you for being such a gracious host. I appreciate the opportunity to get to know you a bit and share some great stories. Thanks too for the encouragement about my coffee video podcast. Valencia is blessed to have a great professor like you there.

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