Week 7: Lab 1

Just a reminder to turn in your Three Photos Finals before class tomorrow. I am reading through your blogs and tweets, remember you must tweet on two different days in order to receive credit for both your tweets.

Tomorrow there will be a Twitter Current Events quiz and I can promise one question will pertain to the Oscars. 

For this week:
Continue watching Lynda.com tutorial on Final Cut Pro X ( Chapters 1-7, 9 and 10 chapter one “Managing Media Files” tutorial by end of Week 9) and for PC users watch Adobe Premiere Elements (Chapters 1-5 by the end of Week 9)
and take the Week 8 reading’s quiz due by 11:59 p.m. Friday

In class tomorrow we will talk about shooting video with the five shot method for your short video assignment. You do not need to check cameras out for class.

Wednesday we will do an in class critique of your audio slideshow assignment. Remember to post this to Blackboard before class if you want feedback in class. 

I'll also pass back feedback on your audio assignments.

Week 3: Lab 2

Today we will be toning and cropping the Seeing Red assignment in Photoshop. I'll give a brief tutorial and the rest of class will be a workshop. You should turn in your newly corrected photos by Monday at noon to receive credit for the assignment.

Our class will be doing the audio assignment next, followed by the three photos assignment. Be sure to download Audacity so you can work on that assignment. Make sure you have taken the Wordpress  Lynda.com quiz on Blackboard. Also make sure to take the Photoshop Elements tutorial and the quiz following it.

HW: This weekend read at least one of your classmate's blogs and come to class prepared to share something you liked about his/her blog we will share these in class Monday.

Week 3: Lab 1

Tomorrow in class we will have a current events quiz. We'll talk about blogs, tweets and grading. And then we'll share our three Seeing Red photos and captions.

Week 2: Lab 2

Here's some info to follow up from last class and prepare you for class tomorrow....

Answers to the first Current events quiz:

1. Senator Kirk
2. Joe Paterno, Penn State
3. Chile
4. Number 2
5. In a 57 year old woman's suitcase at a KC bus station.

Quiz grades have been posted to blackboard

Tomorrow: 

Remember to bring the cameras and a memory card to class. Have you done all the readings for class? These will help you prepare.

We'll do a photo assignment where you and a partner will practice taking photos. Make sure to try out the photo simulator before then.

Be prepared to present three ideas for your community issues project, although your proposal is not dune until Thursday evening.

We will review AP Caption Style

Due by the end of this week:

Two tweets and a blog post by  Saturday at 5 p.m. if you have questions email me before noon on Friday. If you need a topic to blog about talk about the difference between using a DSLR camera and other cameras you have used in the past. I'll be posting a blog roll of your classmate's blogs this weekend so you can keep track of each other. I'll also be posting a list of twitter handles.

Make sure to complete WordPress tutorial on Lynda.com on ways to enhance your site. (Required chapters: 2,4,5,6 and 9). You will need to complete the 50-question WordPress quiz in Blackboard before Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. There will be no extension. You can take the quiz as often as you like to increase your score up to the deadline.

Your community issue Project Proposal deadline is Thursday, January 26th at 11:59 p.m. Please send me an email with your proposal. Come prepared to present three ideas for this tomorrow in class, but the final proposal does not need to be email to me until Thursday night.  

Make sure you have taken the Readings Quiz that was announced in class on Tuesday. 

For next week: 

Have three photos for your "Seeing Red" Assignment. These should be turned in by Monday's class (5 p.m.). Please post them in Blackboard in the designated folder. If they come in after the beginning of your first lab, you will lose a letter grade. See grading policy for a rubric on how we grade your first assignments.

We will  be working with these photos during Lab 2 of week 3. Toning them in photoshop. Read over assignment for Week 3 on the Convergence Site.

J2150 Lab 1: Intro to blogging

The skills you learn in this class will allow publish messages on multiple platforms. This is important whether you’re covering a news event, a feature story, writing scripts, press releases or using sound with still photography and video. See information about Week 1 here.

You'll be publishing two blogs each week and tweeting those to @MultimediaRice. You can tweet those to me too at @Mediatingmimi. Be sure to add the hash tag #J2150 and your section letter to each tweet (Section C: #J2150C).

You can use WordPress to set up a blogging site after watching the tutorial on Lynda.com. You should have received an email about Lynda.com earlier this week. You are welcome to use a pre-exisiting blog if you have one but be aware the blog will be public. Also, if you have not already, set up a Twitter account. Also follow these twitter links.

After you have set up a site and Twitter account please email me with the web address for and twitter handle at perreaultm@missouri.edu.  Please put J2150 Blog and your name in the subject line.

In your blogs try to include links to other blogs, newsites, multimedia work, photos, and other things you think the class might enjoy. 

Links to help:

Lynda.com
Wordpress.com
Twitter.com