Final Cut on YouTube That's right, save lots of $$$$ on learning some of the finer points of Final Cut Pro and just watch the tutorials on YouTube. Here's a link to get you started. _____________________________________________________________ 8days This is a bit dated and I already blogged it, but here is a handy link to the [...]
Final Cut on YouTube
That's right, save lots of $$$$ on learning some of the finer points of Final Cut Pro and just watch the tutorials on YouTube. Here's a link to get you started.
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8days
This is a bit dated and I already blogged it, but here is a handy link to the podcast version of 8days, a UK doc about videojournalism and the newsmedia. A must see.
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Boardwalk
An inspiring video from SacBee photojournalist Kevin German. I'd point you to the SacBee site to see it, but guess what is so buried I could hardly find it, not to mention, once I did, the registration form was longer than my arm. Damn, when will newspapers wake-up!!!!!! Anyway, back to the good stuff. This video is awesome, all ambient, well edited, paced and timed.
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I do have an ethical question for you. I noticed folks using canned ambient sound– Apple loops, hmmm. Ethical? Tell us what you think by answering the poll below.
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Hometown Baghdad
The Los Angeles Times reported today on a new Internet sensation, "Hometown Baghdad," a series made up of two-minute segments that chronicle the lives of three young men (Ausama, Saif, and Adel) trying to live normal lives in Iraq – the producers intended to include a woman but the logistics were too difficult. Filmed by Iraqis in what we imagine to be very dangerous circumstances, and then edited in New York, the short films are a remarkably complex look at life in Baghdad. There is a certain kind of unexpected normalcy to the three men's lives. They have dinner with their families, hang out with friends, date. But there is always the constant reminder that they are living in a war zone, or, as Saif describes it, "hell."
This has been out there for a while and everybody I know has seen it, so I failed to blog it. But here it is now. Great CJR article to read about this, here.
But watch the series here.
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Border Film Project
Border Film Project is a collaborative art project giving disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the border: undocumented migrants crossing the desert into the United States, and American Minutemen trying to stop them. To date, we have received 73 cameras — 38 from migrants and 35 from Minutemen — with nearly 2,000 pictures in total. The pictures show the human face of immigration, and they challenge us to question our stereotypes and to see through new and personal lenses.
Link here.
A wonderful way to approach and document a complicated issue.
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enjoy,
-r
3 Responses
Canned sound? Never ethical in photojournalism, in my mind that the equivalent of pulling a basketball from another photo or putting in a golf ball you happened to miss earlier, it wasn’t there and misleads the audience about what it was actually like to be there.
Don’t be lazy, get the sound.
I love the flash photo gallery of the border project. I want one like it!
I agree, one should never use canned sound.
When we use the sound bank in garage band to make a score track, that to me is like a photo illustration because it’s very obvious to everyone that you made it up.
When you use canned laughter or applause, that isn’t so clear and it’s measure of the truth is more ambiguous to the viewer. That’s unethical because it isn’t real, if it happened, it should be on the audio recorder. If it isn’t, admit you missed it and learn from it for next time.
Also, I think it might be a good move for us to start getting about a minute of room tone at every assignment we go to. I do this and always use it under everything else I record because personally I think it’s more representative of the event then some silent track added in later. Plus it sounds better between edits of other sounds and doesn’t take viewers out of the piece between interviews and what not.