New media and video journalism
Camp Video Journalism Chicago
September 24, 25, 26
Chicago Sun-Times
Early-bird registration is limited and ends August 20. Learn more.
A three-day Camp VJ workshop for reporters carrying video cameras. Continue reading ‘Camp VJ Chicago (Newspaper video workshop)’
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.
Continue reading ‘Pennysylvania: Video Journalism workshop for reporters (Two day)’
A quick film update,
I have arrived in Berlin after an all too short visit in Paris where I spent time with cherished colleagues and made new ones at the IFRA and SND joint visual journalism confab. It was a two day event held in the Trocadero district (Across from Eiffel tower) at the ultra-luxe Apple executive briefing center. Some video to follow - I filled three tapes over two days, SOTs (Interviews and pieces to camera), sequences in the rain (the never-ending rain!) and plenty of B-roll.
Continue reading ‘Video journalism in Paris, Berlin and Sweden’
Camp Video Journalism - the week-long Web video workshop in Chicago has ended - but the films from the events are still rolling out. The video above is David Dunkley Gyimah’s promo reel cut from footage that he and I shot in Chicago during our brief time together.
Special thanks go out to Michael Cooke and the Chicago Sun-Times crew (Toby, Brian, Jeremiah and all the rest) for hosting the week of training. True champs you are.
Continue reading ‘Chicago: Making films with David Dunkley Gyimah’
I am so proud to be teaching video journalism to more and more print reporters. And humbled by the amazing volunteer contributions of colleagues old and new that are donating their time and expertise to the Camp Video Journalism training workshops.
Today I am preparing two lectures that I will be giving in Bucharest October 2-3 for the World Editors Forum Master Class series but last week I was joined in the Chicago Sun-Times classroom by my former Sun-Times colleague, Carol Marin and some new CampVJ instructors: Danielle Guerra, Mark Flescher and Aaron Cahan.
Continue reading ‘Camp VJ: Interview tips from Chicago's Carol Marin’
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.
The amazing Angela Grant creator of newsvideographer.com Continue reading ‘Video: Safari in Egypt's White Desert’
Just announced:
Camp Video Journalism Chicago
September 24, 25, 26
Chicago Sun-Times
Early-bird registration is limited and ends August 20. Learn more.
A three-day Camp VJ workshop for reporters carrying video cameras. Continue reading ‘Learn video journalism in Chicago’
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?
Continue reading ‘Video: MDP conference - David Dunkley Gyimah’
Robb Montgomery works with top media houses in Europe, North America and the Middle East to develop new prototypes for news products and to design multimedia and cross platform newsrooms.
He also produces training that grows visual and digital literacy within organizations.
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