Al Tompkins Interviews WaPo's Travis Fox

The Washington Post's Travis Fox is one of the leaders in online video storytelling, and Poynter's Al Tompkins has a nice interview with him about his latest project and the state of video on the web. Not his predictions on the future.

Quiz Time

The quiz will be in a short-answer format, probably 10-15 questions drawn from the following areas:

• Matched action
• Jump cuts
• Pans and zooms
• Steady shot, why it’s important
• Tripods
• Mics - shotgun, lavs and sticks
• Rollback
• Holding your shot
• Audio - getting it, setting it, why it’s important
• Long, medium and close-up shots
• Cover shots, B-roll
• Framing
• Interviewing techniques
• Benefits/downsides to amateur video
• Active interviews
• 10 second minimum
• Connecting/transitional shots
• Care of tapes
• Time code
• Autolock
• Autofocus - modes and when to use each
• Exposure and backlight
• Tags and folksonomy
• RSS
• FTP

Day One Slides

I've converted the Keynote presentation from the first day into a series of HTML pages, in case you want to sync your notes up with them. I'll post a list of terms you should have learned over the last few days early this afternoon. If you don't know what they mean, post a comment and I'll answer any put up before 8 p.m. tonight.

ASSIGNMENT: Reading for Day 3

Please read Chapter 7 for Thursday's class. And you'll need to read Chapter 10 and 11 eventually, so if the momentum's going ...

Also, here are the links to the videos we watched on the first day, in case you want to review them again.

The Globe and Mail, Surviving Katrina and A Shrimper's Storm
The Toronto Star, An Artist First
Northwest Herald, Bearing the Cross

ASSIGNMENT: Reading for Day 2

For tomorrow, please download the Journalism 2.0 text and read the introduction and chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9. (It won't take that long, less than an hour.)

OH MY GOD - Facebook not SAFE!

Hey guys,
I just came across this from BBC news. It's regarding Facebook, they are talking about different "applications" there have a program that can steal your information and perhaps even your identity, so please be carefull you all. Check out the video.

Priyom.