I tweeted something tonight that’s been running through my brain. I read an article that (in many cases, rightly so) said that newspapers have largely failed because they’ve been too busy being “on the Internet” rather than “of the Internet.”
So I’ve been wondering, what does it mean for us multimedia producers to be “of the Internet?”
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At some point, you’re going to run into this situation:
You’ve created a graphic or toned/edited a photo inside of Photoshop, and now it’s time to bring the image into video editing or motion graphics software, like Final Cut Pro, AVID, Motion, After Effects, etc.
The problem is, once the graphic or photo arrives, the colors are off and/or the image looks like crap.
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While I have shot some video on a Canon 1Ds Mark IV and the new T2i, I do not consider myself an expert by any means. However, the guy in the picture is. I went to his presentation today in St. Louis and came away with some notes on DSLR video that might be helpful to multimedia journalists and visual media producers.
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If I had to point out one problem with the majority of online video journalism, it would be the distinct lack of a coherent story.
It feels like somewhere along the way, somebody decided that online video journalism would involve soundbites from one or multiple sources strung together for minutes on end, often with pretty pictures and video filler to cover the audio track.
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I have a passion for creating high-quality multimedia, whether it's video, motion graphics, photography, graphic design, web design or good-old fashioned text. I have a varied professional background in TV, newspaper and online journalism and a master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism.
Brian Singler is a visual journalist and multimedia producer. After graduating with a journalism degree from the University of Alaska Anchorage, he worked as a sports anchor at KIMO 13 TV in Alaska and then at the Anchorage Daily News, where he discovered a passion for cutting-edge online multimedia. He obtained a master's degree from the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2010 and worked for Newsy.com, the Columbia Missourian and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before moving to St. Louis with his beautiful wife Shawna and their two children, Seth and Summer.
This blog is dedicated to the production of visual media and multimedia journalism. It aims to dissect current trends, showcase the best projects, offer helpful tutorials on equipment and software and come up with new and innovative methods of visual storytelling.
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