Multimedia Storytelling — Spring 2017

Day 28 — The Final Projects

Looking forward to these! Thanks for all your work this semester.

Matt & Bobby

Day 26 — Lessons learned

As we discussed in class today, here’s some notes on what we learned this semester.

Equipment

Getting a mic is super important. And get a tripod. This is the bare minimum if you’re phone reporting. And if you don’t have a good…

Day 25 — The final project

Today, I need to know what groups you’re working in for the final project.

Consider these examples

First, something top-of-the-line, professional. You may not reach this level of achievement in the next two weeks.

Day 24 — Data visualizations

As a reminder, here are the parameters for the final project. The best way to be successful is to choose a strong news story, then figure out which media formats will best tell it. Divide the work how you like. It is due in class on April 27, the last time that we meet.

Day 22 — Design and visual tools

As a reminder, the goal of this project is to use numbers to tell a story. Your data visualization should have 3+ sections of information and present this information visually to tell a news story. Earlier we looked at where to find data; today, we’ll look at how to…

Day 21 — Finding Data

In order for it to be a data story, it must have:

Some Data…

Journalists collect evidence, but when people talk about “data journalism” they usually mean numbers. These numbers might be:

• Collected by someone…

Days 19 and 20 — Video stories

As usual, this viewing and critiquing process is part of the education. We go over your work as a group and discuss it so that we can all learn from what worked and what might need to improve.

Tess

Days 17 and 18 — Video editing

More practice in Premiere that should help you turn out a nice video story.

Day 16 — Video Storytelling

Some video storytelling tips I’ve cobbled together.

Format

Some pros and cons of the formats we’ve already mentioned in class:

• Sound portrait. No hearing your own voice! Depends upon your sources…