A reminder from Shawn Montano:
The Cutting Edge IX: The Order of the Edit
Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee
September 8th 2007
Less than a 2 weeks before the Cutting Edge IX: Order of the Edit, the annual NPPA workshop with an emphasis in editing, lands in Nashville Tennessee. Belmont University ’s New Century Journalism Program has graciously offered the [...]
Excellent piece by Mark Glaser at MediaShift on the migration of jobs from traditional print journalism to digital.
Traditional Journalism Job Cuts Countered by Digital Additions
by Mark Glaser
If you follow the world of traditional journalism, you can’t help but notice the seemingly constant stream of layoffs and buyouts at news organizations. But media observers don’t often [...]
If you live in the Austin, Texas, area, and you are a student looking for a way to break into film, learn film, editing, etc. then contact Mike Curtis (see below):
Thursday, August 23, 2007 Fall 2007 HD for Indies Interns Needed Hey all - The summer intern program went so well, I [...]
Video search is still a hot topic and this piece by Katherine Boehret at Wall Street Journal Online looks at the major players. She gives high praise to Truveo as one of the best of the bunch.
The Best Way To Search Videos On the Internet
By KATHERINE BOEHRET, Wall Street Journal Online
Some fascinating results can be [...]
A very well done soundslide piece titled “Simple Happiness” about a widowed Vietnamese woman and her son living on the streets of Hanoi from Ehrin Macksey, managing director of Relative Exposure and Asian Stock in Vietnam. I like the way Ehrin worked in the Google map with the story as well. His agency has [...]
Some very good tips from professional videographer Bill Pryor. Some you’ve heard, but it’s always good to have a refresher!
Top Ten Mistakes of Rookie Filmmakers
by Bill Pryor
Nobody can can cover everything you need to know in a short article, but I can point out the ten most common mistakes I see over and over.
Bad sound. [...]
Nice article from Simon Wyndham in the UK on editing and pacing. His work is geared toward corporate production, but the points he makes are universal.
Shoot like you watch, edit with natural flow
In recent years feature films at the cinema have become longer and longer. Many scenes that really should have been consigned to the [...]
I just arrived home from this weekend’s National Press Photographers Association Women in Photojournalism conference in Austin, Texas. Needless to say it was a fantastic experience and the theme from this summer’s NPPA Summit was carried through to this conference - multimedia is the future but excellent storytelling is still key.
I was very impressed and [...]
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) is now accepting entries for the Digital Edge Awards (The Edgies). The Edgies honor innovation in newspaper digital media. They are looking for entries in many different categories from editorial media to digital media innovation.
Last reminder, the National Press Photographers Association Women in Photojournalism conference and workshops in Austin, Texas, is today through Sunday (August 17-19) at the Hyatt Regency Austin. Tonight (August 17) is the ice-breaker, the conference starts in earnest tomorrow morning (August 18). You can still register at the door. This conference is not just [...]
The Bivings Group, a Washington, DC-based Internet communications firm released a list of the Top 10 Newspaper Websites on their blog, The Bivings Report. They judged sites on their web features as well as design, aesthetics and usability.
(1) New York Times: We love the general feeling of the NYT site, which is pleasing to [...]
While it may never be used by news sites, a very interesting slide show tool from Animoto that was just released after finishing beta testing:
From the website: Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos, each a customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Using patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end [...]
Some bad news thrown in with some good news from the recent release of the Cox Center 2006 Annual Survey Findings of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates. I do like the fact that more journalists are working on the web. I don’t like the fact that they are not being compensated properly for it [...]
“Five Steps To Multimedia Reporting” is a great site for multimedia training from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. The site is geared to reporters who need to learn how to create multimedia stories. The tutorials cover video (cameras, accessories, shooting tips, stand-ups and voice-overs, iMovie, Final [...]
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC) annual conference has wrapped up and one theme coming out of some of the research presentations is that journalism schools need to do a better job teaching multimedia to new journalists. I can count our school as one that is forward thinking enough [...]
From a recent article by Tim Rutten on LA Times.com, “Newspapers are changing to suit reader’s tastes,” he laments the lack of quality news programming on cable and network news, but holds out hope that newspapers can make the transition back to their roots rather than fall prey to the type of programming we see [...]
For those of you (like me) that appreciate Robert Frank. You can find it at the PhotoEye bookstore in Santa Fe.
Me and My Brother
Photographs by Robert Frank
Steidl The Masters, Gottingen, 2007
Publisher’s Description: Me and My Brother, Robert Frank’s first feature-length film, premiered at the 1968 Venice Film Festival. Everything that had defined Frank’s art up [...]
This excellent article by Cyndy Green on her blog VideoJournalism discusses when to use and more often, when you shouldn’t use, camera and lens movement.
Zooming, panning, and tilting…
These are sometimes the most effective tools in the VJ’s shooting toolbox and should be the least used too. But all too often beginners can’t hold still and [...]
An interesting technique to reduce noise from high gain night shots on high definition video from Zen Films, an independent production and publishing company. They use Neat Image, a plug-in for Photoshop designed to reduce visible noise and grain in photographic images produced by digital cameras and scanners.
Noise Reduction on HiDef images
I made a great [...]
This is a great piece on aging and sexuality called “Never too old.” Good editing, narration, and sound. I love the way StoryBridge.tv has taken a sensitive topic in a not so exciting venue (classroom) and made it riveting. I showed this in my visual communication class the other day and the students raved about [...]
Just a reminder, the National Press Photographers Association Women in Photojournalism conference and workshops in Austin, Texas, is from August 17-19 at the Hyatt Regency Austin. Today (August 10) is the last day you can register online. This conference is not just for “women only,” anyone can attend. There will be several multimedia sessions on [...]
Great find from Angela Grant at News Videographer concerning a recent study on consumer desires for online video. As a disclaimer on the report, Akamai, the company funding the study, has a large stake in the online community through their software and hardware divisions.
Video technological problems won’t fly
How long will a crappy video experiences fly [...]
Here’s a great read from Robert Logan, “The 14 Messages of New Media,” on MediaShift about his extension of Marshall McLuhan’s statement that “the medium is the message.” He lists 14 characteristics of new media today that, “… seem to have 14 distinct messages that intertwine and support each other.” A very interesting read.
1. two-way [...]
Here is an interesting development that I haven’t paid very much attention to, online storage. I’m getting ready to buy a Terabyte drive, which should last a little while for storing video, but if the need ever arose this might be a good place to go. My concern would be reliability and security. Here’s a [...]
From the folks at Mediabistro, a 3-hour course on multimedia journalism. I’m not sure of the quality, but for $65 it’s worth a look. If anyone does attend I would like to hear back from you about the quality and depth of the course.
The Multimedia Journalist
Tell your story with podcasting, video, Flash, and photos
WHEN: Wednesday, [...]
Sorry for the last minute, but I just saw this. Just in case you’re in the New York area and want to attend:
The Future of Photojournalism in a Digital World is a panel discussion on what’s next for photographers, photo editors, and designers
WHEN: Tuesday, August 7, 7-9 pm
Drinks with panelists at a nearby bar to [...]
There’s a great article in the August issue of The Digital Journalist by editor and publisher Dirck Halstead, “Can You Shoot Stills and Video?” Dirck talks about the challenges photojournalists are having adapting to these new skill sets, but that the trade-off we are making, in many cases, is richer journalism and storytelling.
I like the [...]
From FreeGeekery.com, a great list of 15 freeware programs for filmmakers that translates very well to multimedia. Programs for film editing, screenwriting, sound editing and storyboarding will help bring your productions to a new level - for a very nice price!
For those of you who dabble in design - enjoy!
From an earlier post:
The dates for Cutting Edge IX have been released. And while this is geared toward television news, it could be a great opportunity for multimedia producers to learn advanced editing techniques. News announcement from the NPPA:
DURHAM, NC (July 14, 2007) – Shawn Montano, director of the Cutting Edge IX: Order of the [...]
NPPA The Digital Journalist
