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Digital Newsgathering

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May 23 '13

The foundation of video storytelling. Watch and learn!

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May 21 '13
“The actions of your department undermine press freedom in this country. Just as troubling, they set a terrible example for the rest of the world, where governments routinely justify intervention in the media by citing national security.”
— Journalists protest the secret seizure of AP phone records by the U.S. Department of Justice

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May 20 '13

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May 16 '13
“It is beginning to dawn on America’s journalists—a group predisposed, in aggregate, to admire and vote for Barack Obama—that the president and his administration are becoming a clear and present danger to the craft they practice. The Obama Justice Department’s collection of vast phone records from the Associated Press, hot news in the past two days, has news people in a tizzy if not a fury… Now it’s time now for U.S. media companies and individual bloggers alike to recognize that they live in an environment in which their own government—not to mention criminal or corporate hackers—may well be using all of the tools at its considerable disposal, legal or not, to spy on them. They will increasingly need to practice their craft here at home as if they were independent journalists or dissidents living under an authoritarian regime.”
— How can journalists protect themselves from the U.S. government? (Dan Gillmor)

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May 16 '13

Homework assignment #15 (Section 2)

Due by noon on Thursday, May 23

Review this video on shooting sequences and read the grading rubric. Then, plan, shoot, edit and publish a video sequence that compresses the time it takes to show someone doing something. Here’s an example. Here’s another example.

  • Don’t stage anything. Instead, be there when something interesting is happening.
  • For a 1-2 minute video sequence you’ll need about 2 dozen different shots, mostly close ups and extreme close ups, each about 3 seconds long (after they’re edited).
  • You can add music to your sequence as long as the song is Creative Commons licensed or if you have the necessary permissions to use it.

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May 14 '13

daniacrossthebridge:

Rather than being a productive, well-meaning member of society this summer, I’ve decided I’m going to go on a photo binge.

Now that I have my new camera, look forward to regular photo postings from around the city.

Hey remember that time when I said that I wouldn’t have a bunch of photos as I wasn’t a photographer. Hahahahahaha.

 

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May 13 '13
“The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a ‘massive and unprecedented intrusion’ into how news organizations gather the news.”
— Is this how Obama plans to “win the future”?

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May 13 '13

Homework assignment #22 (Section 1)

Due by 11 a.m. on Monday, May 20

1. Review this video on shooting sequences and read the grading rubric. Then, plan, shoot, edit and publish a video sequence that compresses the time it takes to show someone doing something. Here’s an example. Here’s another example.

  • Don’t stage anything. Instead, be there when something interesting is happening.
  • For a 1-2 minute video sequence you’ll need about 2 dozen different shots, mostly close ups and extreme close ups, each about 3 seconds long (after they’re edited).
  • You can add music to your sequence as long as the song is Creative Commons licensed or if you have the necessary permissions to use it.

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May 9 '13

Homework assignment #14 (Section 2)

Due by the start of the Thursday, May 16 class meeting

1. Edit your 1-2 minute person-on-the-street video using the YouTube editor (here’s a tutorial), iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut or another program of your choice. Publish your video on YouTube then embed it in a post on your Tumblr. Here’s an example. Tweet a headline and link to your post.

2. Read (and be prepared to apply these ideas)

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May 7 '13
“…at one point I asked him about this secret room, because the secret room is on the sixth floor; the Internet room is on the seventh floor. It didn’t seem to be an obvious connection, and I had said to him, ‘Well, it seems to me that the secret room is right next to the phone switch room, so I assume they’re listening to phone calls,’ and his answer was: ‘No. Internet.’ That was his instant answer. He said, ‘I’ll show you.’”
— What was AT&T hiding on Folsom Street? (interview with whistleblower Mark Klein)

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May 6 '13

Homework assignment #21 (Section 1)

(I made this video as a way to learn the YouTube video editor. Also because I think pizza culture is super funny and kind of ridiculous.)

Due by the start of the Monday, May 13 class meeting

1. Edit your 1-2 minute person-on-the-street video using the YouTube editor (here’s a tutorial), iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut or another program of your choice. Publish your video on YouTube then embed it in a post on your Tumblr. Here’s an example. Tweet a headline and link to your post.

2. Read (and be prepared to apply these ideas)

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May 2 '13

Homework assignment #13 (Section 2)

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Due by the start of the May 9 class meeting

1. Livestream session (see email for details)

2. Read:

3. Come up with at least 1 question about either of the readings and be prepared to discuss the question(s) in class.

4. Think of a creative question about something you’re interested in. Then, find a place in public, that’s not too noisy, to do some person-on-the-street interviews. Ask 8-10 people your question on video and keep interviewing them for a minute or two if you want. The idea is to collect a handful of short, 10-20 second soundbites that you’ll use later to edit together into a 1-2 minute video. Get close (head and shoulders) and keep the camera steady. Let people know they might appear on your Tumblr and tell them how to find it.

5. Upload your raw video interviews to Google Drive and share them with me. You don’t have to edit anything yet.

6. The training wheels are coming off! For one more week, keep reading the tweets in your stream daily, and tweet at least once a day, on average. Click on links and hashtags that interest you. Keep saving searches for hashtags relevant to your interests or beat. Seek out and follow new people as you go.

7. You don’t have to tweet ever again, if you don’t want to.

(Creative Commons photo by Pierre Wolfer)

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