For reading time today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
We will finish our Premiere training today.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Sunday, February 15, 2015
2-13-15 Cameras
An example of a one-minute movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR_PzFZgsHU&feature=related
Broadcast Journalism Camera Assignment
ASSIGNMENT PURPOSE:
Shoot and edit (in camera editing) a one-minute video that meets the focus statement.
Rules:
*Try to vary your shots (LS, MS, CU, etc.).
*Use camera movements sparingly (only when needed).
*Each person in your group must appear in the video.
*Please add pre-roll and post-roll to your video.
*You have one class periods to plan, shoot and edit the assignment.
*Each assignment will be viewed by the entire class.
*Before we view your completed video, someone in your group will read your focus statement aloud to the entire class so we can see how well you met the assignment.
Sample focus statements:
*Just one more step and it would’ve all been different.
*The picnic was going well until a bee came along.
*Someone in the quartet is singing off-key.
*Uh oh. The silly campers locked themselves inside the van.
*It’s easy to quench a thirst at school.
*It’s so hard to find a quiet place to study.
*Pat, the new student, is so hot.
*Okay, who stole my cell phone?
**You can make up your own focus statement if you clear it with me first.
Pre-production is the most important aspect of any shoot.
1. What is your story? How does it begin and end?
2. Who are your characters?
3. Where does your video take place (locations)?
4. What types of shots do you want for each scene (establishing shot, LS, MS, CU, etc.)?
5. Is there any type of conflict? Conflict resolution?
6. I would suggest either creating script or a storyboard to help guide your video project.
Broadcast Journalism Camera Assignment
ASSIGNMENT PURPOSE:
Shoot and edit (in camera editing) a one-minute video that meets the focus statement.
Rules:
*Try to vary your shots (LS, MS, CU, etc.).
*Use camera movements sparingly (only when needed).
*Each person in your group must appear in the video.
*Please add pre-roll and post-roll to your video.
*You have one class periods to plan, shoot and edit the assignment.
*Each assignment will be viewed by the entire class.
*Before we view your completed video, someone in your group will read your focus statement aloud to the entire class so we can see how well you met the assignment.
Sample focus statements:
*Just one more step and it would’ve all been different.
*The picnic was going well until a bee came along.
*Someone in the quartet is singing off-key.
*Uh oh. The silly campers locked themselves inside the van.
*It’s easy to quench a thirst at school.
*It’s so hard to find a quiet place to study.
*Pat, the new student, is so hot.
*Okay, who stole my cell phone?
**You can make up your own focus statement if you clear it with me first.
Pre-production is the most important aspect of any shoot.
1. What is your story? How does it begin and end?
2. Who are your characters?
3. Where does your video take place (locations)?
4. What types of shots do you want for each scene (establishing shot, LS, MS, CU, etc.)?
5. Is there any type of conflict? Conflict resolution?
6. I would suggest either creating script or a storyboard to help guide your video project.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
2/12/15
For reading time today: http://www.kare11.com/local/land-of-10000-stories/
We will continue learning Adobe Premiere today.
We will continue learning Adobe Premiere today.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Friday, February 6, 2015
2/6/15 Writing
For reading time today: http://www.pulitzer.org/
We will write our stories in news format and in literature format today.
We will write our stories in news format and in literature format today.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
2/5/15 Writing a Story Lesson
For reading time today:
http://www.Digg.com
Try to remember the most exciting thing you ever witnessed--a daring rescue, a momentous sporting event, the birth of a child. Imagine that someone has approached you immediately after the event and has asked you to describe it. Are you now a journalist? That is, is the story you are about to recount journalism, or is it some form of literature?
The answer depends on what kind of "story" you present. Is it a strictly factual account of people, places, and events? Does it primarily tell who, what, when, where, why, and how? Most of us would probably agree that this kind of story is journalism. At its core, journalism is an attempt to convey timely, useful information--that is, "news"--to readers or viewers in a truthful way. It may use sounds and pictures, but its primary vehicle is language.
Is your "story" is an imaginative evocation of the event? Have you employed creative use of sounds or figurative language? Is your purpose to elicit an emotional response from your audience? Have you invented details to deepen the meaning or effect of the story? We are inclined to think of this kind of story as literature. In its various forms--fiction, poetry, drama, even some forms of nonfiction--literature generally seeks to enlighten or move us through the imaginative use of language and incident.
Though different at their cores, journalism and literature are not always distinct. That is, while some of the qualities described above help to characterize them, they also share a number of similarities. Both, after all, primarily use language to capture and convey the human experience. Someone has famously proclaimed that journalism is "history in a hurry," suggesting that news reporters record the events that ultimately tell the story of people on earth. Similarly, literature often provides glimpses of not only the events of a time period, but the general mentality of its people. Both journalism and literature also capitalize on interest. In his essay "The Philosophy of Composition," Edgar Allan Poe emphasized the value of originality in creating a poem, and someone else once defined news as something with an unusual quality, noting that a dog biting a man is not news, but a man biting a dog is. Finally, both journalism and literature seek to effect change or move their audiences. A newspaper's job, it has been said, is to "raise hell." Some literary works, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, also raise hell. Others, such as the satires of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, may effect a different kind of change by making us aware of the weaknesses in our personalities. Still others--the lyric poems of Poe and William Shakespeare, for example--heighten our awareness of the world or perhaps merely entertain us. In any case, all literature has some kind of impact. In short, journalism and literature are similar in many respects. In fact, we might consider journalism as a literary genre--that is, a type of writing with its own set of conventions.
YOUR TASK:
Choose something that happened to you today (or any time in your lifetime) and write a paragraph in which you "cover" it as a journalist. Post it to your blog as an assignment.
If you have time, try to evoke this event in a brief work of literature. How are the two pieces of writing different? How are they similar? How might you write a third account that combines elements of journalism and literature?
http://www.Digg.com
Try to remember the most exciting thing you ever witnessed--a daring rescue, a momentous sporting event, the birth of a child. Imagine that someone has approached you immediately after the event and has asked you to describe it. Are you now a journalist? That is, is the story you are about to recount journalism, or is it some form of literature?
The answer depends on what kind of "story" you present. Is it a strictly factual account of people, places, and events? Does it primarily tell who, what, when, where, why, and how? Most of us would probably agree that this kind of story is journalism. At its core, journalism is an attempt to convey timely, useful information--that is, "news"--to readers or viewers in a truthful way. It may use sounds and pictures, but its primary vehicle is language.
Is your "story" is an imaginative evocation of the event? Have you employed creative use of sounds or figurative language? Is your purpose to elicit an emotional response from your audience? Have you invented details to deepen the meaning or effect of the story? We are inclined to think of this kind of story as literature. In its various forms--fiction, poetry, drama, even some forms of nonfiction--literature generally seeks to enlighten or move us through the imaginative use of language and incident.
Though different at their cores, journalism and literature are not always distinct. That is, while some of the qualities described above help to characterize them, they also share a number of similarities. Both, after all, primarily use language to capture and convey the human experience. Someone has famously proclaimed that journalism is "history in a hurry," suggesting that news reporters record the events that ultimately tell the story of people on earth. Similarly, literature often provides glimpses of not only the events of a time period, but the general mentality of its people. Both journalism and literature also capitalize on interest. In his essay "The Philosophy of Composition," Edgar Allan Poe emphasized the value of originality in creating a poem, and someone else once defined news as something with an unusual quality, noting that a dog biting a man is not news, but a man biting a dog is. Finally, both journalism and literature seek to effect change or move their audiences. A newspaper's job, it has been said, is to "raise hell." Some literary works, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, also raise hell. Others, such as the satires of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, may effect a different kind of change by making us aware of the weaknesses in our personalities. Still others--the lyric poems of Poe and William Shakespeare, for example--heighten our awareness of the world or perhaps merely entertain us. In any case, all literature has some kind of impact. In short, journalism and literature are similar in many respects. In fact, we might consider journalism as a literary genre--that is, a type of writing with its own set of conventions.
YOUR TASK:
Choose something that happened to you today (or any time in your lifetime) and write a paragraph in which you "cover" it as a journalist. Post it to your blog as an assignment.
If you have time, try to evoke this event in a brief work of literature. How are the two pieces of writing different? How are they similar? How might you write a third account that combines elements of journalism and literature?
Monday, February 2, 2015
2/2/15 Advertising
For reading time today: http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/
We will watch Super Bowl commercials today in class.
What is the company?
Who is the target audience:
What persuasive method used (humor, action, celebrity, human interest, etc.)?
How were camera shots and editing used to enhance the message?
What is the slogan/message for the company?
Was the message effective? Why or why not?
We will watch Super Bowl commercials today in class.
What is the company?
Who is the target audience:
What persuasive method used (humor, action, celebrity, human interest, etc.)?
How were camera shots and editing used to enhance the message?
What is the slogan/message for the company?
Was the message effective? Why or why not?
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