Comments on: Day 1: Shooting video http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/ Notes from the classroom and observations about today's practice of journalism online Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:44:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Alex Kolyer http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7479 Alex Kolyer Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:04:44 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7479 Hi Mindy! You have no idea how happy I am to hear you're teaching your students video. It's something I feel very strongly about, but you knew that. I'm so jealous that I'm not taking your class right now! Alex Hi Mindy!

You have no idea how happy I am to hear you’re teaching your students video. It’s something I feel very strongly about, but you knew that.

I’m so jealous that I’m not taking your class right now!

Alex

]]> By: Robb Montgomery http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7389 Robb Montgomery Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:21:17 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7389 I like David Dunkley-Gyimah's meme. He teaches what he calls the "3-6-9" principle and it dead simple to train and remember. Three different angles. (Med, Wide, Tight) Hold each shot for six seconds. (min) Shoot from nine unique locations. It's what you have all been saying - only he uses fewer words. 3 - 6 - 9 Do that and you'll have the assets in hand to edit. I like David Dunkley-Gyimah’s meme.

He teaches what he calls the “3-6-9″ principle and it dead simple to train and remember.

Three different angles. (Med, Wide, Tight)
Hold each shot for six seconds. (min)
Shoot from nine unique locations.

It’s what you have all been saying - only he uses fewer words.

3 - 6 - 9

Do that and you’ll have the assets in hand to edit.

]]> By: Critique your own shooting | News Videographer http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7317 Critique your own shooting | News Videographer Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:21:48 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7317 [...] think Mindy McAdams has hit the nail right on the head in how she is teaching her University of Florida students to shoot video. She sent them out to gather five basic types of shots and then: … we plugged the cameras [...] [...] think Mindy McAdams has hit the nail right on the head in how she is teaching her University of Florida students to shoot video. She sent them out to gather five basic types of shots and then: … we plugged the cameras [...]

]]> By: Rosenblum http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7218 Rosenblum Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:02:12 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7218 Hi Mindy Thanks for the credit the reference and the link. I appreciate it. I also appreciate your not publishing the materials. Hope you are getting on well. We're just finishing up yet another class. Hi Mindy
Thanks for the credit the reference and the link. I appreciate it. I also appreciate your not publishing the materials. Hope you are getting on well. We’re just finishing up yet another class.

]]> By: Angela Grant http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7192 Angela Grant Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:11:21 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7192 Sounds like a great exercise! Sounds like a great exercise!

]]> By: Lisa Parisot http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7188 Lisa Parisot Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:18:31 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/day-1-shooting-video/#comment-7188 That's much the way I teach students to shoot video in my Electronic Newsgathering Class. We watch several examples I've shot of simple sequences so they understand what I mean by the term. I also show several examples from the NPPA Television Photography Award Winners reel. Very advanced, yes, but I want the students to see sequences in news stories. I also find students are very shy at first, afraid to get close to their subjects. We laugh about the many "headless" people they shoot because they forget to shoot faces. I even show the first 5 minutes of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" because he was the master of using very simple sequences to tell a story. We use Rich Underwood's Book "Roll! Shooting TV News" as our text. I like it because it teaches students how to shoot and edit by using personal stories of working news photographers, editors and producers including the late, great Ray Farkas. And you are so right about what goes into the camera depends on who is holding it. That’s much the way I teach students to shoot video in my Electronic Newsgathering Class. We watch several examples I’ve shot of simple sequences so they understand what I mean by the term. I also show several examples from the NPPA Television Photography Award Winners reel. Very advanced, yes, but I want the students to see sequences in news stories.

I also find students are very shy at first, afraid to get close to their subjects. We laugh about the many “headless” people they shoot because they forget to shoot faces.

I even show the first 5 minutes of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” because he was the master of using very simple sequences to tell a story.

We use Rich Underwood’s Book “Roll! Shooting TV News” as our text. I like it because it teaches students how to shoot and edit by using personal stories of working news photographers, editors and producers including the late, great Ray Farkas.

And you are so right about what goes into the camera depends on who is holding it.

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