Welcome back! Video assignment

Welcome back from spring break!

It's time to get busy with video.

The subject of your first video assignment will be Natalie Jacobson who is coming to campus this week as the Donald Murray Visiting Journalist.

You'll be in good company as both New Hampshire Chronicle and New Hampshire Outlook are doing pieces on Ms. Jacobson, one of the first female news anchors in the country.

Here is a copy of her public schedule.

We will not have conferences this week so that you can attend Jacobson's talk at the MUB Theatre II at 5 p.m. Tuesday. You should definitely bring your video cameras to this.

You'll also notice she is holding office hours today (Monday) from 4-5, Wednesday from 12:30 to 2 p.m. and Thursday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Lisa Miller's office (Room 104 in Ham-Smith). This will be an opportunity to get supplemental video and ask any questions specific to your video assignment.

She will also visit our class so that will be another opportunity to ask questions and get video.

Jane Harrigan suggested this video as a good bio of Natalie. There are many other videos attached to it.

And here's a video that shows highlights of her career, from when she won a lifetime achievement award.

There is also a ton of supplemental video on YouTube.

Check out these videos and get inspired! After you view the videos I will be happy to brainstorm story ideas with you if you need help.

Your finished pieces will be no more than 3 to 4 minutes so make sure you choose your topic wisely and then focus.

See you Tuesday at the MUB.

Blog layout fixed

As you can see the blog is back to its original format. I spent more than two weeks playing with the html code only to learn I could fix the problem by re-dragging the elements into the sidebar widgets. Ouch.

In the process of trying to fix the blog I killed a couple of posts I thought might be causing the problems. I thought some of you might still need this link on how to embed your Soundslide on Blogger. Hope you are having a great spring break!

Deb Cram's video links

Seacoastonline multimedia

Wired Journalists

Mindy McAdams (my hero)

National Public Radio

NPPA

Media Storm

Washington Post/Best of Travis Fox

News videographer

How to post your soundslide

For those looking for great instructions on how to post your Soundslide to your blog Annie has discovered this easy to follow video.

Steve Bodnar has also posted his final soundslides project. Alex and Annie have posted drafts. I look forward to seeing everyone else's work by conferences Tuesday and Wednesday.

My goal by then will be to edit the HTML on this blog so that all our links move back up into the space next to the posting window.

This week's class will be an introduction to video with Deb Cram.

Kyle Stucker has hit a home run

Check out his Soundslide Project!

First student soundslide posted

Congratulations to Annie Hamilton who has gotten the first version of her soundslide project posted on her blog. Check it out. Very cute.

Steve Bodnar also found a very cool blog dedicated to innovations using Google Maps called Google Map Mania. Check out this example of a map showing live music in the Portsmouth area. Since our class is progressing right on schedule we'll probably have time after spring break to play around and do some mapping "mash-ups."

In class tonight we'll do a quick tutorial on Soundslides and then spend the rest of the class working on our projects. If anyone is ready to post their project to their blog Annie and I will be more than willing to help.

To create a Soundslides title page

Open photoshop

file new

10 inches by 8 inches at 72dpi

title it

edit fill with black

T tool to write

make sure square is filled with white and not black so it will show up. here you can select fonts and sizes

the move tool (arrow top right in tool box) will move the type around
once you have it the way you like it, layer flatten image

save as a jpeg

pull in like any other image