By Mindy McAdams
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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 saw this video — about a family returning to Rwanda — in July when I attended the Travel Channel Academy training. The story behind the story (as I remember hearing it) was that the videographer, Victoria Holden, had recently undergone a longer version of the same VJ training — a style sometimes referred to [...]
I’ve sorted out my reflections on the second Travel Channel Academy, which I attended from July 19 through 22. For me, it was an excellent experience. I wanted to get ideas for how to teach journalism students to shoot and edit video without requiring them to take a full-semester class to do it. I got [...]
Since I haven’t been able to beat WordPress into submission, I posted the videos on separate page. These were shot and edited entirely by me on-site during the four-day Travel Channel Academy workshop.
I’m not claiming any pride in the videos themselves, but I’m happy with what I learned.
Reading over my previous posts about the Travel Channel Academy video boot camp, I realized I have not given you a clear idea of what we did. So I’m going to delay the Day 4 summary and tell you about the work.
On Day 1, we got cameras about noon and went out to shoot. There [...]
Day 3 of the Travel Channel Academy video boot camp: This was Saturday; I just couldn’t write a post until now (no time!).
Rosenblum exhorted us to have a story in our heads before we began to shoot. He also encouraged us to aim for a very low shooting ratio. (I was successful at that: For [...]
Day 2 of video boot camp: We began with a lecture about visual storytelling, then heard a talk from one of the Travel Channel’s executive producers, David Gerber. He described his career and what he does in his daily job. He introduced us to a new word (for me): “preditor.” That’s someone whose job combines [...]
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