I know I will have fun sharing links, ideas, and commentary, but more importantly, I would love to start a dialouge about what YOU need. For example, this is what I am working-on, in terms of tutorials. SoundSlides-Yes, it is ridiculously simple, but still, people still have some basic questions and there are some ‘hidden’ [...]
I know I will have fun sharing links, ideas, and commentary, but more importantly, I would love to start a dialouge about what YOU need. For example, this is what I am working-on, in terms of tutorials.
SoundSlides-Yes, it is ridiculously simple, but still, people still have some basic questions and there are some ‘hidden’ or little used features that would be fun to point out to the multimedia novice.
Soundslides-ADVANCED-A walkthrough some of the more advanced features in SS, like Lower-Thirds, side-captions, and the most popular request, Chapters (multiple SS on one Flash stage)
SS Alternatives-”Forgive me Joe Weiss, for I have sinned,” but there are few SS alternatives. Clearly they are not for the novice, but worth a look I believe. One example is Vertical Moon’s Swf-n-Slide Pro.
Finally, in the works is an Audio tutorial-covering gathering,editing and publishing your piece to the web.
These will be VIDEO tutorials.
Please drop a comment here about a tutorial you would like to see, here is your chance to have those burning multimedia questions answered.
Tnxs,
-r
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Hi there,
Really loking forward to seeing these tutorials. We have just started doing SS presentations in the last 6 months and love it, but would certainly love to learn more about it. Thanks!
-Damian
I think a tutorial covering FLV compression would be a good addition to your list. Basically from FCP to Squeeze to the web.
-joe
great idea joe, it’s on the list.
I think I would like to see/hear/read something about the big picture – how what we do will survive in the new marketplace. The ‘how to’ stuff is really useful. And the the links to great work is inspiring and uplifting.
But somewhere I want a discussion of how we do what we do, in the real world of an increasingly fractured marketplace where traditional companies have fewer resources and new outlets have limited resources.
The link to SionPhoto Weblog’s rant was interesting, but seemed to ignore the realities. There may be a global interest in photojournalism, but who pays for it?
Look at Gannett, the 800 pound gorilla in newspapers. Their focus, the ‘information center’, seems to be about creating lots of content from whatever source is available. Not about creating high quality content from trained and experienced journalists. Look at some Gannett sites and you’ll see huge numbers of galleries/audio slideshows/videos – but there is a real relationship between quality and quantity.
My fear has been and continues to be that it doesn’t matter if they are right. Scenario one – they are right, and quality doesn’t matter. Their model succeeds and thoughtful, compelling work is pushed to the fringes. (I know it will never disappear, someone will always find a way to do some good work.)
Scenario two – they are wrong and quality does matter. Their model fails and newspaper circulation dwindles; with fewer resources there is less quality work produced.
But in the end, it doesn’t matter so much what I think – I’m not driving the bus.
I’d love to find a way to bring in the voices of the people in charge – create a conversation with publishers, or top editors at newspapers, as well as those running new outlets. Those are the people whose opinions really matter, in terms of the larger view.
I don’t at all mean to say the other discussions aren’t important – they absolutely are. I’m all for finding ways of improving the craft and and storytelling. I wish there were more hours in the day for all of it.
But I’d love to also find a way to at least have a better understanding of the wider view.
a long rant, my apologies.
tutorials teaching practical production skills are great and important. this is how I learned all my production skills.
what I would like to see more of are practicalities of building, navigating and sustaining an independent multimedia journalism operation as a business. how does a reasonable business model of such an operation looks like? how does it work for those not on a payroll? is it reasonable to believe one can survive independently producing online journalism content? examples? revenue ideas?