Audio – Page 2 – Visual Journalism

November 18, 2009

6×6 – 36 Tips to Make You a Better Multimedia Storyteller

Stolen, quite simply, from Richard Koci Hernadez’s Multimedia Shooter site – Adam Westbrook gives you six tips in six areas that will help improve your skills and your stories. The video section sums up what I try to teach so nicely I may not need to teach it anymore.

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September 7, 2009

Reporter's Guide to Multimedia Proficiency

Okay, I admit I haven’t read this as a whole, but I read all of the pieces as Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, posted them over the last year or so. She’s now compiled a 42 page PDF of her advice on stepping up your online journalism game. Given the thoroughness and inventiveness of her past work, this is a Must...

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June 23, 2009

WeeGee and Cartier-Bresson speak!

This is excellent – an out of print LP of photographers talking, and Ted Barron has made a pair of them available as mp3 files. And they are good ones – WeeGee, the infamous crime photographer, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. (Thanks to The Online Photographer for the link.)

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May 7, 2009

NY Times Audio Slide Show on Layoffs

Nicole Bengiveno of the New York Times takes a look at the person who has to make the layoff decisions and notifications. While the shooting is clean, it’s the interview that gets to you. It has no natural sounds, but it works – solemn, serious.

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March 21, 2009

Juggling on Assignment

Adam Westbrook, a reporter for a British radio station, talks about balancing the needs of audio, stills and video while on assignment. (Thanks to Koci at Multimedia Shooter for the link.)

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November 3, 2008

The Power of True Multimedia

This … this … this is what multimedia can do so well. The New York Times, the Gray Lady, has put together a nearly 14-minute long tour-de-force looking at the presidential campaign. It is a stunning combination of photos, videos, audio, graphics and narrations. It is a complete package. How complete? Pay attention to the “Related Links” box below the...

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September 21, 2008

"Homeless in Atlanta"

John Spink at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has published an audio slide show looking at a homeless woman who lives by the CSX train tracks. All told through her voice in just over two minutes, pay special note to the opening image and the signs in the background. I would kill to make an opening image like that …

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September 17, 2008

THIS Changes Everything … Perhaps …

Canon has announced it’s replacement for the long-in-the-tooth 5D, the 5D Mark II. All of the goodness you’d expect are there – higher resolution (a whopping, card-massacring 21 megapixels), better autofocus, better shadow detail, better noise control at high ISO, etc., all with the pure joy of a full frame CMOS chip. As with Nikon’s D90, there’s now a video...

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August 22, 2008

"Last Stop"

The New York Times has a neat multimedia feature up on the city’s subway system. But they’re done it with a little twist: Ever wonder where the train goes after you get off? The rode all of the lines to the end, and then did photos, audio slide shows or videos about the areas at the end of the lines....

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July 30, 2008

A 14 Year Journey

Scott Strazzante and MediaStorm have published his story looking at the transition of a farm into a sub-division, as told through the farm’s family and one of the new home’s families. It is awesome. The story is great, it is well told and it is beautifully shot. Every time I tell my students to shoot more, I will now have...

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