Even More Assignment Deadlines

Friday, April 10: Resubmits of the public housing stories on server by 5 p.m.; CD with TIFF or Photoshop files from those who were doing audio slideshows.

Tuesday, April 14: Resubmits of rural health on server by 7 p.m.
 

Friday, April 17: Video for 24@UGA shot.

Tuesday, April 21: Audio slide shows for 24@UGA on server by 2 p.m. 

Thursday, April 23: Video stories for 24@UGA on server by 2 p.m.

Upcoming Deadlines

Upcoming deadlines and schedules:

March 31: Public Housing stories due. Audio slide shows should be on the server, videos should be edited - we’ll add titles/graphics and export in class.

April 3: Rural Health stories due. Audio slide shows and videos (exported and with graphics) due on server by close of lab at 5 p.m.

April 1-7: Shoot your 24@UGA audio slide show profile, record audio.

April 8-14: Shoot your video for 24@UGA. Produce your audio slide show, due in class on April 14.

April 15-21: Produce your video for 24@UGA, due in class April 21.

ASSIGNMENT: Patterns

A three to five photo package on the theme of patterns, on the server by 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19.

Also, please watch the rest of the San Jose Mercury News' Flicks package. 

ASSIGNMENT: First Video Package

For Tuesday, February 3, you need to shoot a short package. Choose someone who does some sort of repetitive action, interview them, look for cover/b-roll shots and matched action. Plan on this being a very short piece - 30 seconds or so. You'll need 5-10 different shots for this. Think about audio - both the interview itself and some natural sound. 

ASSIGNMENT: Video Starter

For Thursday, January 29, you need to find someone doing a repetitive action and shoot four different angles of them doing it. You'll need at least one long, medium and close-up. Two of the shots need to be editable into a matched-action sequence. One of them will need to be a cut-away/b-roll/cover shot to get you from one moment to the next, so think about a detail shot of some sort.

Remember to check the following:

• Focus - zoom in, focus, zoom back out for composition
  
• Exposure - use your histogram
  
• White Balance - set it manually
  
• Audio - get your mic in close, get some detail and natural sounds (no need for an interview)
  

As an example of the matched action, look at this:



Now add a long and medium shot and you're set.

ASSIGNMENT: Technical Reading

For Thursday, please read the first 67 pages of the manual for the Sony video camera. (Link is to a PDF of the manual.)

I know, it's arcane, but you need to have some sort of background before we hand you the camera.

ASSIGNMENT: MLK Volunteer Day or Inauguration

Shoot and record a 30 second story on either MLK volunteer day or the inauguration.

You’ll have 45 minutes at start of Tuesday’s class to produce.

That’s it – 45 minutes.

You need eight photos.

You need one matched action.

You need two locations.

You need cover shots.

This will go on Grady Journal during class.

Assignment: Blog Post, Matched Action

Part One: Fine an online video with a matched action sequence and post a link to it here, including how far in the match is. Give us a few sentences on whether you think it works or not.

Deadline: 7 p.m. on Sunday

Part Two: Shoot a series of three photos - from different angles and with different compositions - as if you were doing a three-shot matched action sequence in video. We'll download and sequence them in SoundSlides on Tuesday in class.

Syllabus, Day One

The syllabus has been posted, time to start reading it, folks. 

Assignment 1: Three questions about the syllabus, written down, for the start of class on Thursday.