Links from Video Slice Class #1

Below are the links to the videos we covered in class, in case you plan to write about them for your homework assignment. Your written pieces and videos are due Thursday at noon. A detailed description of this assignment is outlined in the syllabus.

NOTE: Posting videos to the blog is essential, since we will review homework assignments as a class. Let me know if you have trouble posting and ALWAYS bring your raw recorded material on your Flips or MiniDV cameras to class if you are unable to post successfully.

Videos from Video Class 1:

Nina's Videos

We reviewed the Reagan Evacuation video and the video about Mexican Elections. We also discussed the work and decisions involved in shooting, editing and producing a day piece, compared with a long-range/documentary project. The first two videos I showed you are not available online anymore, but you can check out the documentary project here:

A Life Lived in 4/4 Time

A Tale of Two Election Night Videos

We contrasted two natural sound videos with interviews, highlighting potential pitfalls to avoid:

U Street

White House


Interview Shots

We discussed interview shots, a basic overview of the Rule of Thirds, and the differences between two types of shots -- the body position and framing of a subject being interviewed vs. the body position and framing of a t.v. anchor/reporter who is addressing an audience by looking directly into the lens.

Interview:

Funeral Home

Anchor/Personality:

Chris Cilizza

David Pogue: Great Notebook Compromise (on the lower right side of the page)

Rule of Thirds

We will continue to cover the Rule of Thirds in more detail, but in the meantime here are two helpful tutorials:

Basic Rule of Thirds

A More Complicated and Funny Take on the Rule of Thirds

Movie Maker and imovie Tutorials

In case you missed it on the blog, check out this videojournalist's toolkit with step-by-step editing instructions for Movie Maker and imovie.

Here is an additional Movie Maker tip -- if you are importing clips into Movie Maker and your clips appear fragmented, one way to join them together is to highlight all of them, right click, and select "join" or "unify clips." Then you can drag them down to the timeline instead of having to do that individually for each clip.

Final Cut Pro

I also mentioned the Mac lab in the Computer and Space Sciences Building. It has Final Cut Pro 6 available for students. One word of warning: the servers are cleared every 24 hours, so you would either have to finish editing before that deadline or save your work on an external drive. I would recommend using an external drive -- especially if you're planning to use the lab and Final Cut Pro for the final project.

The Knight Digital Media Center has this helpful Final Cut Pro tutorial, if you are interested in checking it out:

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/finalcut/

Nina