VisCom Note 11.02.09

VisCom Notes
    11.02.09

Hello Visual Communicators,
All of the assignments in red should have been done. If not, let’s tighten it up, it’s time to move on. Now we do the assignments in green.

The representative from the game company, EA ,will not be presenting until 2pm in the Gallery Lounge of Blackburn. If you are interested in gaming please come. I would suggest you come see what’s going on anyway. Gaming is a $57 Billion market, and growing.

So, we will hold class Tuesday Morning as normal, 11. I want to talk about final projects and want you to have a plan for the rest of the semester. So that you can sail into the end of the semester with style and grace. We lost a giant in Photography, a Black Man, last week Roy DeCarava, more tomorrow on his storytelling.

CH

These are your assignments

1. Open Google Accounts- Gmail, Picasa (Picasaweb.google.com), Blogger (some are using other Blog sites), Download Journalism 2.0.
2. Read Journalism 2.0, Chapter 8- (digital Photos)
3. 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...)  Make a number of pictures, different shots, keep an eye out for potent moments. Invest quality time here.
4. Blog page- Start and upload the photograph ( this is how you will deliver your assignments (professional, portfolio.)
5. Familiarize your self with these sites * they are loaded with tutorials and Articles.
6. Photoshop Assignment- Do three things to a photo in Photoshop and upload to your page
7. Phone (mobile) posting- Make two phone posts ^ per week, to VisCom S09  (or email to address^below)
8. A picture Story, keep it simple. We will use it in a “timeline” in Final Cut (These are your photos, your story.)
9. Read Journalism 2.0,  Chapter 9 (shooting Video)
10. Read Journalism 2.0, Chapter 10 , “Basic Video Editing”
11. View the Final cut Tutorials at <http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/richmediafcp/apple/index1.html>
12. Lay your picture story in the timeline of a Final Cut Project, (To be safe bring a storage device 5-10 gigs.)
13. “Five steps to Multimedia Storytelling”  http://www.newsu.org/courses/course_detail.aspx?id=ucknight_multimedia07
14. 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 - BE DONE!
 

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