Come to the website for Wired magazine Issue 17.5
View the video that introduces the issue to consumers. Spend the hour browsing the site. Settle on an article to read or a feature to experience. Describe, in a comment to this post:
1) What article/feature you chose and why
2) How it related to the theme of the magazine
3) Your reactions to the article/feature
Get this done by the end of class on Friday May 22.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Skater videos?
Check out this video that attempts to cover an event that can be of interest to a fairly wide audience. It looks at punk culture from a slightly unconventional perspective. This video treats a similar topic also as it relates to an unconventional audience.
View both videos and think about what makes them successful in covering their topics. Comment on this post (reply to this post) by the end of the hour today, Tuesday May 19th, 2009. In your comments, consider some of the following elements (you do not have to do a paragraph on each, nor do you have to include them all, they are just ideas.):
Please use headphones!
View both videos and think about what makes them successful in covering their topics. Comment on this post (reply to this post) by the end of the hour today, Tuesday May 19th, 2009. In your comments, consider some of the following elements (you do not have to do a paragraph on each, nor do you have to include them all, they are just ideas.):
- Shots and camera angles
- video and audio editing
- sources interviewed
- extra footage (b-roll)
- subject matter
- focus as it pertains to the story. This last item is something new I want us to consider as we move toward our final project, a full-length feature piece on a specific person or event.
Please use headphones!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
"Assignment"
The title is in quotes because its not really an assignment, per say.
While I had some grand plans about following up on our brief conversation about the intro to the New Kings of Nonfiction. Something better and more interesting came up. Thank you to Mike Dupar for his link to a beautiful site that continues to stretch our ideas about the nature of journalism. And doesn't it just exemplify the truth of Ira Glass's point about letting the journalist into the story? If we sought cold, critically distant, factual story telling we'd look the other way at something like this.
Take the time to get through this site and make a comment on the blog reacting to it on your own terms. Don't worry about length.
Thanks again, Mike!
While I had some grand plans about following up on our brief conversation about the intro to the New Kings of Nonfiction. Something better and more interesting came up. Thank you to Mike Dupar for his link to a beautiful site that continues to stretch our ideas about the nature of journalism. And doesn't it just exemplify the truth of Ira Glass's point about letting the journalist into the story? If we sought cold, critically distant, factual story telling we'd look the other way at something like this.
Take the time to get through this site and make a comment on the blog reacting to it on your own terms. Don't worry about length.
Thanks again, Mike!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
video sandwich assignment
Video Sandwich Assignment
For this assignment, you’ll have the task of finding a person or event to profile in a brief video “sandwich” type assignment.
The sandwich will consist of a few seconds of stand-up/voice-over that introduces the event/character and the particular angle that will be treated. A period of sound bites from the interview(s) you do with/about your subject. Remember these are more conversations you have with folks and less ‘interviews” with “subjects”. The sound bites will then be followed by a voice-over/stand-up to close the piece.
Length should be 1:30, 1:45, or 2:00 with the traditional 5 second grace period.
Project will be due: Thursday, May 14th by the end of class.
For this assignment, you’ll have the task of finding a person or event to profile in a brief video “sandwich” type assignment.
The sandwich will consist of a few seconds of stand-up/voice-over that introduces the event/character and the particular angle that will be treated. A period of sound bites from the interview(s) you do with/about your subject. Remember these are more conversations you have with folks and less ‘interviews” with “subjects”. The sound bites will then be followed by a voice-over/stand-up to close the piece.
Length should be 1:30, 1:45, or 2:00 with the traditional 5 second grace period.
Project will be due: Thursday, May 14th by the end of class.
The Fifth Estate??
Take a look at this article from the Poyner Institute Online.
Earlier in the year, we had a number of discussions regarding the nature of the old press (newspapers, television, radio, etc.) and the new press (the curious amalgam of platforms and methods of reporting that get distributed online). What seems to be happening is that people are searching for ways to define what is evolving from this transitional period. Roy Peter Clark's article describes a Fifth Estate. You might first remind yourself of the original meaning of the "fourth estate," but then read and respond to Clark's article with a 400-word comment to this post by 3:30 tomorrow (5/6/9).
Respond to these questions:
Does his description of the situation sound logical to you?
What role do you see yourself playing in this "Fifth Estate"?
Does the idea of a fifth estate seem like a productive one for society or not? Explain.
(It may also help to read some of the comments associated with the article as at least one addresses some of the questions I've posed. And if you're really nuts about the topic, go ahead and read the "related" articles)
Earlier in the year, we had a number of discussions regarding the nature of the old press (newspapers, television, radio, etc.) and the new press (the curious amalgam of platforms and methods of reporting that get distributed online). What seems to be happening is that people are searching for ways to define what is evolving from this transitional period. Roy Peter Clark's article describes a Fifth Estate. You might first remind yourself of the original meaning of the "fourth estate," but then read and respond to Clark's article with a 400-word comment to this post by 3:30 tomorrow (5/6/9).
Respond to these questions:
Does his description of the situation sound logical to you?
What role do you see yourself playing in this "Fifth Estate"?
Does the idea of a fifth estate seem like a productive one for society or not? Explain.
(It may also help to read some of the comments associated with the article as at least one addresses some of the questions I've posed. And if you're really nuts about the topic, go ahead and read the "related" articles)
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