By Mindy McAdams
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As newsrooms everywhere struggle to adapt to the digital information environment, everybody in the newsroom needs to gain some multimedia literacy.
At the basic level, that means you understand what the media are suited for. Even if you do not know how to make an audio slideshow, you must understand what kinds of stories work well [...]
This is a list of guidelines for experienced journalists who are interviewing someone with a video camera for the first time. This is not TV news style; the reporter will never appear on camera, and the reporter’s voice will be edited out of the final version.
My students are required to use a tripod for interviews. [...]
Today I tried to prepare my students to shoot their first online video story. They have one week to come up with an interesting story, do prep and research, and arrange an interview with a suitable person. Next week they will get their gear and learn how to use the tripod. Then they have one [...]
If you want to know why Colin Mulvany’s blog has become one of my must-reads, look at this post. Mulvany is on the front line in the newsroom at The Spokesman-Review, and he’s sharing his day-to-day strategies and decision-making for multimedia journalism.
I come from a still [photojournalism] background and have lots of experience shooting picture [...]
Yesterday my students went out with their HV20 cameras to shoot for the first time. Their (ungraded) assignment was to get the five shots described in Michael Rosenblum’s “Five Step Method,” which is much like the sequence you’ll find described in a lot of beginner video books. Basically, you are shooting five specific close angles [...]
I have some new HV20 video cameras for my students to use. Our semester began last week, but I’m a little behind on getting everything set up for them. I’ve never taught shooting before. Five or six years ago I used to teach video editing in Premiere, but I cut that out when I started [...]
Thanks to a post on the News Videographer blog, I learned that Colin Mulvany, of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, has started a new blog of his own, Mastering Multimedia.
I’m excited, because I have long been a big admirer of The Spokesman-Review’s Video Journal, a blog where Colin and others at the newspaper display and [...]
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