VisCom Notes 03.26.09a

VisCom Notes
03.26.09a

Hello Visual Communicators,

Today I want to talk about the final projects and course progress with each of you, individually. We can have a discussion of multimedia storytelling. You can work during class on adding audio while I talk with individuals.

Today, Thursday 26 at 12:30 in Room 254, Prof. Jamal Sullivan will do a workshop on Beginning Webpage Design. Prof. Sullivan teaches in the Electronic Studio of the Fine Arts Dept. This is part of our workshop series. He will be working in “Dreamweaver” which is available on our machines. I don’t know how many more times this will happen so get to it if you can.


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. “Five steps to Multimedia Storytelling”  http://www.newsu.org/courses/course_detail.aspx?id=ucknight_multimedia07
13. Add an audio track to your Final Cut Slideshow
    

Later
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