VisCom Notes 03.24.09a ** I'm Baaack!**

VisCom Notes
03.24.09a

Hello Visual Communicators,

I’m BAAACK!

Sorry I had to take a break. But I’m back. For those of you who made the FCP Workshop with Mr Kendrick, congratulations. For those of you who didn’t, that is still work that you must do. ( The FCP slideshow is now in the list of assignments.) Develop some facility in Final Cut, it will serve you later, especially if you are in broadcast. Now we want to do some audio. I want to do it Final Cut and add it to the (/or a) slideshow piece. What audio fits your slideshow piece. Next shoot video. I have newsu.org program for you to do. It will help you figure out where you are going with your final project. It is called 5 steps to Multimedia Storytelling*. COURSE DETAILS/ Title: Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling/ Instructor: Jane Stevens:

http://www.newsu.org/courses/course_detail.aspx?id=ucknight_multimedia07

“Reporters today are often faced with the challenge of telling their stories in a multimedia format. In this course, you’ll discover the basic steps necessary to organize a story. You’ll learn how to approach the steps with the correct tools and how to edit and assemble all of the elements into a engaging report.”

Final Projects- Final projects will be in a form of your choosing- Picture stories (coherent story), Video pieces (2-3 minutes max.)  I will even entertain poetic pieces, but I will be the judge, in that case.  These pieces must communicate something, and have strong visual content, though they need not be overly heavy.  Multimedia projects will be worth more than simple pieces.  You can focus your final (in one medium or mode,) but I still want everyone to do everything on the assignment list below and upload it to a professional looking page to which you can attach your resume. It should be something you can be proud of.

These are your assignments

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)
9. Read Journalism 2.0, Chapter 10 , “Basic Video Editing”
10. View the Final cut Tutorials at <http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/richmediafcp/apple/index1.html>
11. Lay your picture story in the timeline of a Final Cut Project, (To be safe bring a storage device 5-10 gigs.)
12. *Do Five steps to Multimedia Storytelling
    

We are picking up the pace.
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