Okay, so I don’t really know if anybody is watching your videos or not, but, I have learned a few things along the way that can help you get more people to keep watching after they hit the play button. I hope you enjoy this screencast I put together.

Check out my quick demo and sample of an awesome new iPhone app, called SHOWCASE, perfect for multimediashooters.

Before you can break the rules, you need to know the rules. Here are a few rules I live by and some tips on how to train yourself.

Mountain Workshops » Apply The Western Kentucky University Photojournalism department is now accepting applications for the 2009 Mountain Workshops which will be held in Murray, KY  Oct. 27-31. Once again we are offering three concurrent workshops; Photojournalism, Multimedia and Picture Editing. The application for MWS ’09 is posted at… http://www.mountainworkshops.org/how-to-apply-for-the-mountain-workshops/ There is no application deadline [...]

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS Documentary Workshops Barefoot Workshops offers short, intensive workshops in documentary filmmaking to individuals with beginner through advanced levels of training. Barefoot Workshops – Documentary Workshops and Media Training for NGOs

VJ Workshops develops tuition-free multimedia workshop intended for current college students and professional visual journalists who have been laid off in the last two years VENTURA, CALIF., (June 1, 2009) – VJ Workshops, in partnership with Brooks Institute in Ventura, Calif., has launched a tuition-free multimedia workshop to be held at the Ventura campus of [...]

I am a contributor to the NEW organization, Story4.org, a multimedia production studio, and we are planning a multimedia skills training workshop and I’d love your input. If you have a moment to take this poll, I’d appreciate it! Also, thanks for the Webby votes for my students, WE WON! CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE [...]

Photojojo » The Ultimate Guide to Time-Lapse Photography

Audition Shure microphones in this interactive demo.

You can now follow the latest multimedia headlines and my famous rantings by following my Twitter feed. Click here, to follow. THEN, the first NEW subscriber and the first OLD subscriber to direct message me, will WIN FREE passes to the F5FEST. From the organizers, “We love your site and would like to offer two [...]

The 2009 NPPA Multimedia Immersion Seminar in Las Vegas will be an intense, five-day, hands-on training experience for visual journalists looking to expand and grow their multimedia skillsets. Our focus is on mixing photos, video and audio content and editing them into multimedia presentations. Our previous students have ranged from multiple Pulitzer Prize Winners, Best [...]

May 23-31, 2009 There are only 15 spots so you are encouraged to sign up early. Please visit the site for more information and to register for this class.

May 16 – May 21, 2009 University of Southern California / Annenberg School for Communication The Knight Digital Media Center in partnership with USC Annenberg School for Communication, the Center for Communication Leadership and the Online Journalism Review is accepting applications for its special News Entrepreneur Boot Camp to be held May 16-21, 2009, in [...]

UNC Multimedia Bootcamp May 17-22, 2009 http://bootcamp.jomc.unc.edu/ The 8th annual UNC Multimedia Bootcamp will be May 17-22, offering a one-stop opportunity to re-tool and gain skills needed to be competitive. This intensive, weeklong workshop is designed for professional journalists who want to explore various forms of multimedia storytelling and how they work together to create [...]

The folks over at The Art of The Title are doing us a great service by providing insight into some of cinema’s artful and powerful openings. If  you know me, then you know how passionate I am about the first 10 seconds of anything you produce. While most of the examples are based on typography [...]