VisCom Notes 04.02.09a

VisCom Notes
04.02.09a

Hello Visual Communicators,

Thursday April 2: we’ll do more familiarization with video camera, the faculty retreat last Friday and the one man-band concept. ***See B&H article about Chandler Griffin <http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/Chandler-Griffin.jsp > That is, one person does it all. There was an add from a TV station in Jacksonville in an earlier “notes.” The ad suggests that news outlets are hiring people who can do everything. While the dissolution of traditional media is frightening for those of us who learned it the old way, you should not be frightened. This a once a century opportunity for you to design a future, your future and those of us around you.

Some of the most important innovations of recent years have been conceptualized and designed by people in your age group: Facebook, Napster, Apple computer, Microsoft were all started by people during their undergrad years. But be clear about something, no one is going to carry you. You will have to teach yourself everything. We can provide workshops like labs. But, my classes are about concepts, not a place for you practice process, that you are supposed to master in your own time.

There is a consistent fear, on the part of the faculty, that the student body ( well, some 50% of you) will not be prepared to deal with this new world. I think most of you will deal with the world “out there” in time. The problem is who will running your lives and will you be able to do the things you love, with your time on earth. Some may say that I don’t know my passions, well you learn them by trying the things that interest you. Take a chance, invest your time, now. You will find interests that will carry to the great beyond.

There are a number pieces on shooting video in prior assignments (see below,) now’s the time top put those lessons to use. Move from Knowledge or learning, through experience, to wisdom. (That’s the real knowing.) Check out a video camera today and shoot some video. The assignment for next TUESDAY is a 3 minute video piece, so that we may critique and move toward your final assignments. Remember those.

WEBSITE Design TODAY (4/2) PROF JAMAL 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
    

14. Read video techniques at <http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/video/shooting_tips/> it’s short
 15. Shoot video for Tuesday assignment and critique. You may work in teams, and tee up the piece before class.

We’ve passed the point of “no return,”
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