Before I outline tonight’s agenda, a reminder that Ben Kalina will be in Comm Center 101 this Friday (May 1) from noon to 3 p.m. If need be, he said he could stay later. Your group will get participation credit (see Syllabus) if at least one person is there with content to work on.
Now:
Quick summary of SD, HD
- return previous work
- watch the B-roll video from Transom
- questions on customized Google map and embedding for final?
- go over the requirements for the final story package (handout, see Assignments)
- guidelines for compressing video from YouTube and Vimeo; handout on video formats (above)
- our Community Health Data Base link, (go to Data Analysis Tool at bottom; log in information on board) comparison data from NIH and a source for ZIP codes and other city data (what ZIP codes cover the ENP area?)
- build a quick Excel chart, export it as a PDF, open in Acrobat Pro and Export as JPEG or just slect chart, copy and paster into Photoshop, save as JPEG (asctually better quality)
- maybe go over how to do an animated GIF in Photoshop; for use in Final Cut, you can convert it to .MOV file here or in Photoshop-> Export->Render movie and choose .MOV
- Twitter official tips on journalism and Twitter media page and Facebook for journalists
- note Storify (below) and
- how to generate blog traffic (below)
- I have my writing tips here, although they are more feature (not hard news) style
I always prefer creating HD videos. It’s today’s standard.