After having worked closely with journalists and editors in newsrooms large and small in many parts of the world, I have a pretty clear sense of the training needs and am keen to match them to extremely practical workshop experiences.
But, I really need your help to confirm this. Will you please help me out with some data?
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.
Thanks for an inspiring presentation today in Kolding, Denmark - the surge of online video is upon us - the web as live pictures - I love it. Appreciate long list of links to all kinds of different ways of doing online video and will study it assiduously.
Top local VJ’s Danielle Guerra and Mark Scheffler will join Robb Montgomery in leading the video instruction at the Chicago Sun-Times and help out students with their cameras and videos.
Danielle is prolific full-time video journalist working at the Northwest Herald in the Chicago suburbs and Mark is a local freelance VJ who files reports for Crain’s Chicago Business and his own company businesspov.com
The training will now be even better - consider yourself upgraded! Many thanks for these excellent teachers who are volunteering their services to the Visual Editors non-profit.
FAQ
I have filed a FAQ on the Camp VJ page that can offer more detail about cameras, editing software and more.
– http://campvj.ning.com/notes
If you have any additional questions do not hesitate to ask.
So you want to be a interactive multimedia video journalist?
Viewmagazine.tv’s creator David Dunkley Gyimah created this trailer for what he calls the “Mi6 Videojournalist Manifesto.”
I simply call the work we did in Cairo the work of two “fully-trained” journalists.
CAIRO: View of a church and satellite dish packed rooftops taken from the 20th floor of the Marriott Hotel on the island of Zamalek (Also known as al guezirah)
This video clip was captured with my point and shoot Lumix LX-2 in 16:9 of David Dunkley Gyimah explaining the differences between the way video journalism is reported from the field: The traditional broadcast model vs the video journalist shooting more like a newspaper style “Photo Joe.”
After working with David all week - my style here has clearly been influenced by fascination with the handheld “Bourne Identity” shooting technique. In this piece, David is so engaged with his audience that I decided not to cut away. What do you think? Would this have been stronger with cut away shots?
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.