How to create side items for the big story?
How to create alternative ways for telling your story?
Practical training with the photo editor (1 hour) (participants work in groups to produce stories)
The art of listing: (2 hour) When, why and how to use it?
http://www.toptenz.net/ practical training
Benefits of google and web 2.0: (2 hours) Delicious, Flickr, video compressing, photo editing, sound mixing and much more free online applications serving the editorial process.
Although I was introduced to the concepts of convergent journalism and multimedia journalism 2 years ago in United States .. I only practiced it today with the full meaning of the new tasks required from reporters.
I have practiced it partially as an editor by telling the story in different forms and even teaching others how to tell it in text, slideshows and videos.
Today I attended the press conference of Vingada al-ahly club new coach
and I was gathering material to produce interactive content .. I found that :
1- it is a very possible task for one person to gather photos and videos while still taking notes as a reporter in the same time. (I remember how mark comerford said once about how we can do multitasks in the same time in good quality).
2- you have to think wisely when to take video or sound bites coz you should expect when the source is going to say something interesting or u r wasting ur memory card.
3- At the time of video recording u should hold ur camera tight and focus in what is said in order to write it down after you finish recording.
4- to beat ur competitors you should have a speedy internet connection or to have someone on the phone to post breaking news (as ahmed ezz helped me).
5- Start capturing photos for ur slideshow even before the event starts you will be saving ur time .. taking close shots for meaningful stuff in the place can help u create a slideshow story by mixing wide and medium and close shoots (as mentioned by Rob Montgomery). .. I add for low quality cameras u should mix between using flash in certain shots and avoid it in other shots.
6- Don’t sit down in the middle of a row of chairs or u will lock urself from moving to get different angels.
7- in office you need good internet connection or you will be pissed off coz you cant upload ur material.
8- make a plan in ur way to the office like : give photos to the photo editor then upload video to youtube .. continue writing while the first 2 tasks are handled by someone else.
9- as an editor you should know that big news and VIEs (very important events) deserve to send one reporter for every task .. it worth but I time of financial crisis and low budget task one well trained journalist is enough .. he can produce a good story.
First Day 3 hours What is interactivity? Explanation of the concept with examples from spots websites and calculation for the time users spend on these websites
Why it is important to my work? discussion about the benefits of interactivity and how it could be used to support hits and sales
From a news piece to a news story (serving users instead of informing them) + Excercise Use examples to show editors complete news stories and weak news pieces then trainees start to suggest ideas of how to serve the user by adding value and rewarding the user through exercise
Information gathering Questions create stories not answers .. an open discussion about getting the right answer from your source using questions followed by a practical exercise
Second Day 3 hours
How to raise a debate? Use examples showing trainees different methods of engaging users into debates through direct and indirect ways + exercise where the trainees will supposed to suggest ideas
Photography and video story telling for internet? Explanation using examples for how to gather still photos or video clips to tell stories for internet users
Project : Producing a multimedia package story with photos or video creating a story implementing all the skills they learned during the course
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