Dallas Morning News Special Reports: Yolandas Crossing

Dallas Morning News Special Reports: Yolandas Crossing

Time-Lapse Tutorial

I’ve put together a tutorial on how to shoot a time-lapse using a DSLR and intevelometer. The tutorial covers everything from settings you should use to making the time-lapse video in quicktime.
Let me know if the tutorial was useful. I’ll try and do some more tutorials if this one is recieved well. Also, if you’ve made a time-lapse, post a link to it in the comments.

Other formats:
• iPod (32.2mb)
• XviD (35.1mb)
• Flash (13.3mb)

Travels to Djibouti

Ok, here's something back in the realm of journalism:
Chris Tyree of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot traveled to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa to cover U.S. military efforts to stem the growth of terrorism. The Pilotonline.com put together a multimedia package of his work: Waging Peace

Roger Richards, a pioneer newspaper video shooter and one of the instructors for the Platypus workshop, put the show together in Final Cut using Tyree's audio from the trip.

(I just wanted to use "Djibouti" in my first post! — Chuck Fadely)

IN MY LANGUAGE by silentmiaow

Haunting, beautiful, inspirational. Points out the beauty and importance of video and the ability to share content on the internet. It’s long. It’s not for everybody. Stick with it and I know you will be enlightened by the end.

Also, take heart, less bizarre multimedia links can be found under the Notable Multimedia links on the side-bar. This is less a multimedia piece than a human story that could provide multimedia shooters inspiration on how to tell a video story. Finally, There are a few more folks from the multimedia team who are coming on-line to share their observations and perspectives. So if you are getting tired of my ‘artsy-fartsy’ posts, hold-on help is coming. Meanwhile, enjoy.

-r
p.s. Zach Wise is going to post a fun tutorial on the use of time-lapse photography and I’m working on a video compression tutorial.

Sundance Inspiration

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL watch tons of stuff FREE on the web. The documentary shorts are great. Especially Motodrom
Directed by Joerg Wagner

MultimediaShooter Podcast - Richard Koci-Hernandez Interview Part 1

Here is part one of an interview I recorded with MultimediaShooter founder Richard Koci-Hernandez. Richard has been shooting photos for the San Jose Mercury News for more than a decade, and has recently transitioned into a multimedia shooter and producer for the paper. He has a great backstory and a lot to say about the past, present and future of newspaper multimedia.

On a technical note this was recorded with a Marantz PMD 660 and a M-Audio Aries condensor microphone. It was edited with a combination of Audacity and Garage Band, and the music was provided by my friend and former bandmate forbidden donut. I learned an interesting lesson while recording this. A cell phone receiving a call near a recorder can cause a nasty clipping in your audio, so turn off your cell phone when recording.

Hope you enjoy,

By Chris Jordan

MULTIMEDIASHOOTER TEAM

SLEEPERS by chrisgubbels

 

SLEEPERS has been around a while, guess I missed it, but I really think it deserves more than a mention. This is one of those inspirational pieces- for my taste anyway - that just makes you feel like you've had the wind knocked out of you. It's a great idea, executed with artistry. It has an unexpected nature and yes the audio has it's problems - too low and lots of hiss - but still…..hope you enjoy. Please feel free to comment and leave links to pieces that inspire you.

 

-r

 

Bruce Davidson’s Iconic Subway Photographs

The New York Times > New York Region > Interactive Feature > Bruce Davidson's Iconic Subway Photographs

Need help with audio levels?

Try this : GigaVox Media, Inc. » The Levelator™

Rocky Mountain News - The Crossing

This is worth keeping your eye on, 33 chapters! Great interface.

Rocky Mountain News - The Crossing

Think Tank Photo l Quick gear plug

These guys rock! You can't go wrong with their stuff, this new rolling backpack looks like a must for the multimedia shooter. 

Professional photography equipment - camera bags, camera cases - from Think Tank Photo

[video] Chaptered SS tutorial

This is the second and final Soundslides video tutorial. Next I will cover Video Encoding Basics.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click on the Quicktime video mov icon below and the video will play in a new window, or choose download option in small read letters.

You can download the source .fla [FLASH 8] file I talk about in the tutorial here. 320KB .zip

NOW WITH MX2004 file download MX2004 file here

Runtime: 17 minutes Size: 17MB

Sound in your next project?

Tired of using the same Garageband loop in the background? Need some sound of a couple fighting in Russian? Well that wouldn't be ethical, but you'd be surprised at the royalty free sound out there.  Below are a few places to start if you don't want to create your own music or effects for your next multimedia project.

• Garageband Jampacks
• Sounddogs
• Shockwave sound
• Sonic Imagery
• LifeHacker post with more links

Sunday Mix

Seems like lots of folks like to blog on Sunday, so here are a few things I picked-up while surfing this morning.

Mix/Play "newspapers need to take note — we need to look at new and exciting ways to tell stories."  Seth Gitner via his del.icio.us 

Apple profiles the new BBC multimedia newsroom.

You should see this NYTIMES Reader if you haven't, it's the future.

Journalism stories: A multimedia approach (Part 1) over on Mindy's blog. 

And the Chaptered Soundslides tutorial will post today.

tnxs,

-r

 

 

Jacksonville.com: Photos: Slideshow: The 2006 All-First Coast athlete portraits

Jacksonville.com: Photos: Slideshow: The 2006 All-First Coast athlete portraits

8 Days, The Pulp, The BBC, and you.

 

8 Days In eight days, 9 journalists from regional newspapers in the UK will attempt what appears near impossible. Armed with small lightweight high definition cameras they'll begin shooting their own news stories. What's going on? videojournalist and course leader, David Dunkley Gyimah, says you decide.

The Pulp was created out of a desire to push the limits of multimedia documentary stories.The short answer is that we want to create and produce material, collaborate with others, and change the landscape of online storytelling.

Press Gazette - UK Journalism News and Journalism Jobs The BBC Training site launches with 500 pages and over 40 video clips with both practical exercises, how-to guides helping journalists of all levels to improve their skills, and theoretical discussions on the practice of journalism aimed to stimulate debate.

 
Tri-Medial handbooks available for download
The “Tri-Medial Competences in Local Journalism” is a three-part publication created to train European journalists to work with converging print/audio/video mediums in the age of the internet. The publication includes a curriculum manual discussing convergent-media competencies, a set of modular materials for teaching the “Tri-Medial Concept” and a train-the-trainers manual to help journalists to organize courses and teach other journalists.
Downloads (PDF): English - Dutch.

 

Multimedia Training l Expenses paid!

March 25-30 2007 Multimedia Training | Multimedia Reporting and Convergence

20 fellowships for this expenses-paid seminar at UC Berkeley. Six days of hands-on instruction on how to do multimedia stories for the Web. Apply, then call me and we'll go to dinner.

-r

 

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