VisCom Notes 03.05.09a

VisCom Notes
03.05.09a

Hello Visual Communicators,

Here’s something, following on some things I’ve heard and seen around the school: “Are drunk Facebook photos killing your job prospects?”
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-266559.html?tag=nl.e550>  Short and Sweet, but should be read and heeded, especially since Facebook holds on to all your stuff and other computers are running around the web making snapshots of content. Take Care.

Examples of things that one can do with multimedia packages: <http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/workshops/projects/> “Ailey Camp” holds interest for me. I’ve got a dancing family. My daughter Monica (16yrs) dances, my wife was dancing at the Dance Place (near Catholic U.) when I met her. “I am an artist” is an interesting mix that could serve as a journalistic or P.R. piece.

Today we will talk about “Commitment to Revision”. Remember Commitment=Surrender. And about building timebased media (idea to screen.)

Read Journalism 2.0, Chapter 8- “Shooting and Managing digital Photos,” and Chapter 9, “Shooting Video for News and Feature Stories”. Next week we will shoot video. Check out a small Sony video camera and play with it. (Start this Weekend if you like.) Play with it first if only for a little while to get the feel of what you are doing. Get cables from Ms. Ransom so you can play your stuff back over a TV Screen.

1. Open Google Accounts- Gmail, Picasa (Picasaweb.google.com), Blogger (some are using other Blog sites)
2. Photograph- a person you do not know, get names. They should be living their lives and you should have a caption (who,What, When Why...)
3. Blog page- Start and upload the photograph ( this is how you will deliver your assignments (professional, portfolio.)
4. Familiarize your self with these sites * they are loaded with tutorials and Articles.
5. Photoshop Assignment- Do three things to a photo in Photoshop and upload to your page
6. Phone (mobile) posting- Make two phone posts ^ per week, to VisCom S09  (or email to address^below)
7. A picture Story, keep it simple. We will use it in a “timeline” in Final Cut
8. Read Journalism 2.0, Chapter 8- (digital Photos) and Chapter 9 (shooting Video)
   

See you in class. CH

Journalism Workshop Calendar http://socdojworkshops.blogspot.com/ Prof Herndon’s Office Hours Calendar http://profherndonscalendar.blogspot.com/ VisCom, Photojournalism, Multimedia (VPM*) Pages http://crn17559a.blogspot.com/ VisCom S09 http://viscoms09.blogspot.com/ Prof Herndon’s Sometime Blog http://craigseyes.blogspot.com/ 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/ *Knight Digital Media Center http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/ *News University http://www.newsu.org/ *J-Learning http://www.j-learning.org/ *J-Lab http://www.j-lab.org/ *Journalism 2.0 (text download) http://www.kcnn.org/resources/journalism_20/ Blog Post (phone or email)^ VisComS09.room254@blogger.com / Picasa Post VisComS09.picasa@picasaweb.com

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Prof. Craig Herndon/ Asst. Professor Multi-Media Studies/ Howard University/ Washington, D.C. 20059/ 410.703.8708 cell/202.806.7856 SOC ofc/ craigherndon@mindspring.com / craigherndon@verizon.net