Journalism 2300:News Photography

Week SixFebruary 27, 2012

Announcements

• Manda Lillie, Statesman Editor

Course website

• http://www.d.umn.edu/~lkragnes/12Jour2300Spring/

To be a better photographer…

…you need to take a lot of photos!

Test next week

• Open book/computer• Multiple choice; true/false

The week in pictures

• MSNBC:– http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

Let’s look at yourself-portraits!

• Creative!• Impressed once again!• What was the biggest challenge?• Biggest surprise?• What did you learn?

Day in Pictures

• San Francisco Chronicle Web site at:– http://www.sfgate.com/

Chapter 12: Multimedia

• Field of journalism evolving• Merging of traditional journalism

storytelling with the Internet

Marriage of image, sound

• Sound brings photos to life• Brian Storm, multimedia pioneer

– Founder of MediaStorm.org– MSNBC’s first director of multimedia

http://www.mediastorm.org/

Interview or shoot first?

• Both work well– Interviews reveal photo possibilities– Photos lead to questions

• Look for quiet place to tape interviews

• Many different types of microphones• Look subject in eyes• Nod acknowledgement; avoid own

voice!

Interviewing tips

• Write out list of questions• Open-ended questions

– Neutral subjects first, more difficult questions later

• Follow-up questions– Listen to answers– Stay on topic– “What it all means”

• Ask questions in pairs

Preparing Audio

• Transcribe the words• Organize the copy

– Identify crucial quotes– Eliminate your questions– Let the quotes tell the story

• Write the script– Include good ol’ 5 Ws and H– Keep it simple!

Recording narration

• Voice over– Narration written, usually read by

reporter

• Stand-up– Journalist appears on camera

University of California Berkeleyhttp://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/

Shooting stills for multimedia

• Typical print layout: Might use 6 images

• Multimedia slide show: Minimum of 40 images

• David Leeson, The Dallas Morning News– Pulitzer prize winner with Cheryl Diaz

Meyer– Now full-time videographer for the

newspaper

Images, sounds in a slide show

• Soundslides software combines sounds, images for the Internet

• Pacing the images• Images, sound and text

– Difficult to read captions with sound

Let’s look at the book…

Photographer profile

• Prepare a PowerPoint presentation on a working photojournalist

• Include 10 images on individual slide pages that best portray the photographer’s work

• Biographical information, portrait of the photographer

NOTE:Email copy of presentations to me by 6 pm on March 19

Let’s brainstorm possible photographers to

interview…• Napa Valley Register photographer• Naomi Yeager, Budgeteer• Bob King, News Tribune photographer• Stormi Greener, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Final Project:Let’s build a web page

• Google Sites:– http://sites.google.com