VisCom Notes 04.15.09a

VisCom Notes
04.15.09a

Hello Visual Communicators,

*******No class Thursday************ I will be at Blackburn, more below.***

******************SHOOT VIDEO, SHOOT VIDEO, SHOOT VIDEO*************

How are we doing with our final projects. There is no more lecturing to be done. As you know I can talk for ever. I’d like to bring that to a close. We have one more week I believe. So we should look at some videos next week, and do critiques. If you have questions about your final projects please contact me.

*** I am going to cancel class on Thursday. The Porter Colloquium is taking place in Blackburn, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. It is the premier national conference on African- American American and Art of the African Diaspora. I will be attending and unavailable for class that day or Friday.

Please register online and attend if you are interested in Black Art. <http://portercolloquium.org/colloquium/2009/colloquium-program/> Porter was a famous Howard Professor of Art. This confab represents his scholarship well, and serves our community, as a focus of Academic pursuit in the realm of our visual creative activities. Please check the schedule at the above address.

If you need to enhance your grade, please consider a paper on one of the sessions. This qualifies as visual communication. The schedule is at the URL above and registration is linked there. Go online and register first, please. If you would like to get credit for a report on a Colloquium presentation (grade enhancement,) please seek my approval first. CH

David Mc. sent a link to a story about the AP fighting online use of it’s content. <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21136.html > It’s worth a read in light of yesterday’s discussion of legalities in Intellectual Property arena. CH

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.
16. Reading the Final Cut Tutorial at  http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/video/ and SHOOT VIDEO
17. SHOOT VIDEO, FINAL PROJECT How are we doing!
 
Move it People!
 CH

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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