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VisCom Notes
01.28.09

Prof. Herndon (I) will not be in today, Wednesday. There is icing in rural areas (where I live) and I can use the 2 hours of drive time. I know you will miss me, but I’ll be back Thursday morning. We will begin to play with PhotoShop, please bring images (photos) to work on in the computer. I think we have PhotoShop (Ps) CS3 on Rm 254 machines. Here you can find Tutorials <http://www.photoshopsupport.com/index.html> and videos. Check lessons for CS3. I believe Room 221 has CS4. But you should familiarize yourself with many versions of Ps as it is ubiquitous. (PC versions on some machines in the Converged Lab)
 
Prof Burnett will begin Video Workshops on Friday, Room 221, 9am and 2pm(?). The workshops are intended for Broadcast students and for VisCom students. All are welcome, but I bet if the classes get crowded, they will be limited to registered students by the end of the semester. So, go early if interested. We will be doing video later in Visual Communication, but if it’s an interest of yours, dig in, it’s free.

I will start a series of Photography Workshops (Basics- 3 in the cycle) on Fridays also. 12-2pm Rm 254. You can sharpen your skills, come play with PhotoShop, whether you participate in the class or not. From this point on, before you can earn multimedia credits in Writing classes, We will require that you take this and other basic workshops. The idea is to move rapidly toward creating professional quality work. We will be doing captions, uploading images to Picasa (my choice,) and basic PhotoShop. I’m trying to multiply my value here, last semester the individual sessions nearly killed me. For those registered in my classes individual sessions are encouraged. (See workshop calendar link below.)

Please check out this video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY> Some of you may already have seen it. It’s about 5 minutes long, but I think it paints a pretty clear picture of the future we face. Not so much what you will be doing, but who you will be competing with, and how rapidly things will be changing in your world. Our world is controlled by people who don’t necessarily look like us or think like us. But, that is changing and if you prepare yourself with good communication skills, you will find a place in the new mix.

I will use this mechanism to communicate and I will add pertinent links at the bottom, keep an eye out.

Have fun, work hard, good luck.

washingtonpost.com Camera Works
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/index.html
The New York Times, Multimedia/Photos
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html
Journalism Workshop Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=isturgis%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York
Prof Herndon’s Office Hours Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=2jgpchkm3l8ma615h9c99sdi58%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
VisCom, Photojournalism, Multimedia Pages
http://crn17559a.blogspot.com/
Prof Herndon’s Sometime Blog
http://craigseyes.blogspot.com/