By: Frances Micklow Ian Fisher: American Soldier 27 months, three years from idea to publication. 130,000 photographs, 130 hours of video. They had the love of photojournalism to get this published. The Idea: 2007: “Who would want to sign up no?†Working title: A Colarado Patriot You can’t tell every soldier’s story, but you can [...]
By Elissa Ewald How do I get better sound? Darren Durlach gives you tips for how to collect audio on the scene of a story that helps viewers experience the story. “I would rather have better audio, better sounds, better characters than better images.” Gear (What Darren uses) ME66Â Sennheiser Shotgun mic Lectrosonic-UCR 401 Lectrosonic-um400a transmitter [...]
By: Frances Micklow Presented by Sarah Bates and Warren Peper, The Post and Courier How we’re getting news is changing. Getting news used to be a lecture, now it is a conversation. The move is going to interaction to create that conversation between the audience and the news sources. Video needs to have a purpose, [...]
by Elissa Ewald Darren Durlach discusses his video techniques and how to improve your video storytelling and capture your viewers. “Storytelling is about getting the viewer to care.” In maximizing the story, as a photojournalist…it’s your job to get out of the way and let the story tell itself. You don’t want to do anything [...]
by Elissa Ewald Stanley Leary shares some insight on how you can improve or build a successful business in photography. Find the entire presentation at http://www.stanleyleary.com/marketing.pdf “Corporate clients are looking for, first and foremost, someone who can solve the immediate problem.†To be successful in the business side of photojournalism, you need to make sure [...]
Scott McKiernan presents 5 Years of DOUBLEtruck magazine.
By: Frances Micklow Presented by Craig Walker, The Denver Post Ian Fisher: American Soldier Started with two subjects from Bear Creek High School. Began following Troy, interviewed and took photos for two plus weeks. One day Craig Walker noticed that Troy had changed, and he told Walker that he didn’t want to join the army [...]
by Elissa Ewald Greg Smith discusses some need-to-know business practices if you want to succeed in your career as a visual journalist. Why are you here? Are you here to make big money? To seek fun and fulfillment? To make a difference? To make enough money for long enough that you can have a fun life and make [...]
By: Elissa Ewald Garrett Hubbard from USA TODAY gives some tips on how to improve your video interviewing techniques. Developing Trust The extent to which you can get a good interview is the extent to which your subject trusts you. 25 years after Beirut Part of overcoming interviewing challenges is planning ahead so they don’t [...]
By Frances Micklow Presented by Meghan Lyden, Denver Post One of the biggest struggles with multimedia is organizing all the content. Things to consider: style/philosophy, form of content, content gatherers– who is going to get the content? Who takes the best stills? Who knows how to do good video?, content editors—who knows how to edit [...]
