Jun
1
Preheating the grill as dinner marinates. #summereats (Taken with instagram)
Andrew C. Nelson
Multimedia Reporter.
May
22
Advice Put to Work
I listened to my first Typecast podcast while I emptied the dishwasher. It certainly won’t be my last. At times, I wanted to grab a pen to scribble some of the great tips.
Hacks and writers of all types should have a listen.
Exploring the website, I was glad to see someone had posted the tips, including one I found interesting:
Anecdotes often feel too long. Here’s the trick: Don’t start at the beginning, start in the middle. You never see a judge walk in, sit down and bang the gavel on “Law & Order.” When they cut to the scene, the judge is already banging the gavel.
With that in mind, I revised my lede to:
Bill Maddox carried the cross down the aisle of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, as his mind flashed back to the people who once filled the wooden pews. People long gone, some buried in the nearby parish cemetery, where flowers decorate metal headstones.
“I couldn’t help thinking about my folks, my parents, and all the other people that have passed. You just had a feeling they were in that service,” he said.
Apr
10
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
I asked my twitter followers if they had questions to ask a visiting religious leader, the former head of the Catholic Dominican religious order.
Two responses.
1. What can a mother say to a child she fears is losing faith.
2. How can a person find their destiny? (The question really was ‘how to find the rainbow connection?” but Father Timothy Radcliffe wasn’t familiar with the Muppets.)
Here’s the recording for the first. The second will be posted later.
Mar
29
doing this
Let’s see what happens. Getting good at something only comes after actually doing it. You want to be a better writer, write more. Be a better photographer, shoot more photos.
Mar
23
occupy-boston-journalism-project:
Kim Komenich gives a speech about video journalism to graduate students.
This video explains a lot about the foundations of video journalism. Komenich gives very detailed and easily understood description on how to get the best clips during an interview. He does a lot of comparing between print and video/audio journalism. He provides great examples for video journalism. My favorite is the first example he uses about a young girl in Colorado that is paraplegic and wants to be on the cross country team.
The whole video (though long) is extremely useful for anyone going into the journalism field. He even talked about the exact cameras that my school has for journalists to use for assignments! If you are at all interested in the journalism world, please watch!
Mar
22
[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
My paper published a day-in-the-life photo essay of Atlanta’s Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King, which marks its 75th anniversary.
My contribution was going to be a written piece to the essay, but I wanted to do more. I produced this video as part of the special series. I knew the organist would be a good video addition because of the sound, there’s action with the hands playing the keyboard and organist was be happy to let me shoot him.
I interviewed him for about 40 minutes, which I used to write a 500-word piece to complement the photo essay. I repacked the interview as the soundtrack for the organ playing.
I edited the audio and shot the video with the 1st Video app on my iPhone. I put the package together on my phone, including the title slides. From that, I uploaded the piece to Youtube and embedded the video on the Georgia Bulletin blog.
What I learned:
- I need to use my voice more. His audio from the interview are short, so I wish I added some context with my own voice.
- Editing on my phone is getting easier. I used two sound tracks to weave the sounds.
- On the video, I tried to follow the five-shot formula: hands, face, hands and face together, over the shoulder, something else. It didn’t actually end up being that precise, but I adapted.
What lessons have you’ve learned from shooting video with a phone?
Feb
29
NPR Releases its Ethics Handbook
In our reporting, we rigorously challenge both the claims we encounter and the assumptions we bring.
Good benchmark to measure our work against.
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