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Video editing workshop in Berlin at KircherBurkhardt

Leading a video editing class at KircherBurkardt in Berlin, Germany.

Leading a video editing class at KircherBurkardt in Berlin, Germany.

A quick update about the three-day video class I will be producing for Camp Video Journalism in Berlin, Germany next month. If you are thinking of attending this video editing workshop in Europe, please register soon. The response for this event has been strong and past video training workshops have sold out.

The event will take place at the world-class KircherBurkhardt publishing house in central Berlin and I will be joined by German video journalist Kristin Jankowsi who produces news films for Der Tagesspiegel.

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Multimedia training in Europe - Learn Web video in Berlin

Multimedia training at KircherBurkardt in Belrin.
Great news! For the March 17-19 video journalism training, Visual Editors has a great host in KircherBurkhardt. KircherBurkhardt is the famous German editorial design firm and is donating training space and facilities.

I did a few days of private multimedia training with KB staff last year and my friend, Lukas Kircher has opened up his shop to allow this event to take place for anyone who wants to learn how to tell Web video stories better. Walking into KB is like entering Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. It is Germany’s largest information graphics operation and it is an amazing place to come practice multimedia.

All proceeds benefit the Visual Editors charity.

Come to Berlin to learn:
– Fundamentals of camera usage
– Shooting and editing sequences
– How to gather audio
– Elements of visual stories
– Writing scripts, recording voice overs and editing scenes
– Final Cut shortcuts and workflows
– Compressing, uploading and filing videos for Web

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Audio is the most important multimedia to get right


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Sound is the highest value multimedia asset that modern journalists must master. Audio quality is the first thing an audience will judge you by and instantly brands you as an amateur or a professional.

I have been doing audio multimedia consulting for correspondents who cover the EU Parliament in Brussels for the last few months and I’ll share some of the expertise I have gained in recording and mixing sound for better the part of my life.

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Oprah interviews Chicago Sun-Times designer

Chicago Sun-Times Page One Editor, James Smith, is interviewed for more than five minutes on Oprah’s show to talk about the series of historic front pages the paper has published as Barack Obama ascended to the presidency and the White House.

Editor-in-chief Michael Cooke Dinner at Eight full movie reports in a message to me that he was in the audience while James took the questions. I don’t know about you but I would never imagine Oprah ever giving a five minute interview with a newspaper designer and also wouldn’t think a top editor could ever exhibit that much class by NOT taking the stage.
To give the spotlight to the designer for this occasion is really rare and gallant.

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Complete front page collection of Obama's Inauguration newspapers

Front page collection of newspapers Covering Obama's Inauguration Friends with Money

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Pew study illustrates effects of mass layoffs at U.S. newspapers

Types of jobs being trimmed at US newsrooms.

Show me don’t tell me.

Here are some more graphics that dramatically show where the steep cuts and sudden changes in U.S. newspaper are being made to the product.

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Graphic on social media: The Conversation Prism


The Conversation Prism

I am catching up on my reading in India. 11 and-a-half time zones ahead of Chicago time and over my RSS transom arrives this new graphic that illustrates the emerging conversation that is happening online.

The prism is produced by Brian Solis who is a PR pro based in San Francisco. Continue reading ‘Graphic on social media: The Conversation Prism’