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Introductions

Multimedia storytelling

Skewz.com

Skewz Media Comparison Chart

McCain Blogette

PolitiFact.com

OPTIONAL: Try sample video tutorials at lynda.com and CBT Cafe.

Broadcast lab: 480-965-0534

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1.17

Discuss ideas for story package.

Blogs: Discuss choice of candidate or campaign topic.

Storytelling with photos

Review Mac.

Set up your folder on the JRN server.

BRING IN a campaign topic or presidential candidate you’re passionate about for your blog. Check out Skewz.com, Skewz Skewz Media Comparison Chart, McCain Blogette and PolitiFact.com. Alternative: Blog about your multimedia story.

BRING IN at least one good idea for a story package with text and four multimedia elements— video, audio, Soundslides and a map mashup. (Here’s a mashup of local bar.) The text can be something good you wrote for another class.

BRING IN a digital still camera, batteries AND a way to download the photos to a Mac. You may borrow a camera from the lab.

Serena Carpenter: Video trends

Discuss video ideas

Review equipment, audio, framing, interview techniques, b-roll and sequences

Review saving footage

Storyboard your video idea in class. Also work on your Video Story Plan.

Plan other elements of your multimedia story.

Read Artwick Chapters 4 and 9.

BRING IN at least one idea for your video to discuss in class.

HAND IN a typed list of five or six of the best blogs on your candidate or topic. Find them at popular aggregators, such as Google Blog Search, Technorati and Icerocket.

OPTIONAL: Review Serena’s video PowerPoint.

Dr. Bill: Recording narration

Storytelling with sound

Storytelling with Soundslides

Mapping and focusing your story idea.

TURN IN Audio 1.

TURN IN 10 questions from your audio interview. See instructions in Audio 2.

BRING IN audio for your project. It can be a clip you have NOT used elsewhere.

HAND IN your completed Video Story Plan, which you can download here.

Do research. Find multiple sources. Schedule interviews. Begin shooting video (due 1.29) and photos (due 1.31) for your multimedia project.

Read the following:
1. Gathering Audio: A Practical Guide.
2. Tom Priddy’s tutorial about creating audio slide shows.
3. Your Guide to RSS, then set up a search feed, which is an RSS feed (not an e-mail alert) that delivers to you a steady stream of fresh results to a search query that you specify. This is very useful for following your blog topics. You’ll need a feed reader. (Google Reader is a free, flexible and easy.)

OPTIONAL: Look at YouTube tutorial on Google Reader.

BEFORE CLASS: Think of a title and domain name for your blog, then set it up at WordPress.com. Add Sidebar Widgets, such as Flickr and/or del.icio.us.

E-mail Carol your blog URL.

Serena Carpenter: Writing scripts for broadcast

Blogs: Tips about blogging and how your blog postings will be graded

Serena Carpenter: Critique your edited interview and associated b-roll.

Revise your footage.

BRING IN edited interview and associated b-roll, preferably on an external hard drive.

By midnight Thursday: Post Blog 1 (graded). Live-blog either the Republican Debate on 1.30 or the Democratic Debate on 1.31. Both are on CNN.

Read your favorite blogs regularly. Participate—leave comments; follow links; cite them in your blog.

Add these blogs to your blogroll. A blogroll is a list of other weblogs that you either subscribe to or recommend.

Photo Editing

Best of Photojournalism: What Makes a Winner

Adobe Bridge: Editing photos

Photoshop: Batch-processing, cropping and prepping photos for the Web

Batch-process, edit, crop (if necessary) and prepare photos for your Soundslides project. Put them in your STUDENT folder at the end of class.

Edit audio and/or record narration for your Soundslides project.

Continue to shoot video footage and still photos.

BRING IN audio you’ve recorded for your Soundslides project.

BRING IN photos you’ve taken for your Soundslides project (graded).

Read Cropping and Cropping.pdf.

OPTIONAL: If you need a Photoshop refresher, read Photoshop Basics and/or look at REVIEW (OPTIONAL).

By midnight tonight: Post Blog 1 (graded). Live-blog either the Republican Debate on 1.30 or the Democratic Debate on 1.31. Both are on CNN.

Serena Carpenter: Review how to compress video and make Flash video

Ethics of audio editing

Serena Carpenter: Critique additional edited video.

BRING IN more edited AND compressed video. Put it in your STUDENT folder before class.

Continue to shoot photos for Soundslides.

Photoshop: Working with type and shapes

Photos That Lie: Ethics of photo manipulation

Use Photoshop to make three title slide for your Soundslides project.

Write captions and edit audio for Soundslides project.

At end of class TURN IN your edited photos and three title slides.

By midnight tonight: Post Blog 2 (graded). Link to at least one of your favorite blogs.

Add a blogroll to your blog.

TURN IN Soundslides critique (graded).

BRING IN final photos and audio for your Soundslides project (graded).

By midnight Friday, Feb. 8: Email Serena your script.

Quiz 1: Video, photo, audio ethics and blogs

Receive feedback on script from Serena.

Receive feedback on title slide. Finish Soundslides project (graded).

TURN IN the blue Soundslides checklist. Fill out the only first page!

TURN IN five photos for flickr visual storytelling contest— Tell a story in five frames. Put them in your STUDENT folder.

Study for quiz.

Read Artwick Chapter 2.

BRING IN any additional photos and video to work on in class.

Video

Post your five photos to flickr’s Tell a story in five frames.

Work on final video.

Revise your Soundslides project.

Revise script.

Bring video to work on in class.

By midnight tonight: Post Blog 3 (graded). Link to at least one news story about your candidate or topic.

Creating a Google map mashup

Adding content

Google Maps street view

Create map mashup for your project. Send Carol the URL. If appropriate, include the source, such as a government agency.

Put five photos for Tell a story in five frames in your STUDENT folder.

Finish Soundslides.

BEFORE CLASS: Put your completed, compressed video AND final script in your student folder.

BRING IN info for map mashup—geographical locations, statistics, any photos, etc. For sources of copyright-free photos, see photography.html.

Cyberlaw

Designing Web pages: CSS

Web Wizard

Practice CSS to style “Jabberwocky.”

Begin CSS exercise.

BEFORE CLASS: PUT revised Soundslides project (graded) AND all its photos and audio files in your STUDENT folder.

BEFORE CLASS: Send Carol the URL for your Google map mashup.

Read Artwick Chapters 7 and 8.

By midnight tonight: Post Blog 4 (graded). Link to AND comment on at least TWO blogs or news stories about your candidate or topic, including one on http://newstrust.net.

Jason Manning: Political editor for washingtonpost.com

Serena Carpenter: Critique of your final video

BEFORE CLASS: Send Carol the link to the REVISED map mashup (graded).

BEFORE CLASS: Put CSS exercise (graded) in your STUDENT folder.

TURN IN a double-spaced, typed story to accompany your project.

Lunch with Adrian Holovaty

Flash

By midnight tonight: Post Blog 5 (graded). Link to at least TWO blogs or news stories about your subject. One should be from your blogroll.

Flash basics

Build your page.

Compress your video using the L&G formula. Turn it into a Flash video. Put it in your STUDENT folder.

Create text for a Flash movie. Add motion to Flash text. Add action script to stop looping.

Revise your text story and map.

Revise your video.

E-mail Carol after you post your five photos to flickr’s Tell a story in five frames.

Read Artwick Chapter 5.

Think about a simple Flash animation for your project.

Examples of Flash projects

Finish your page.

Put revised project in your student folder (graded).

Make a Flash timeline.

Optional but helpful: Look at Flash Tutorial 1 (10:26),
Flash Tutorial 2 (10:38) and Flash Tutorial 3 (10:35).

Revise your Soundslides.

BRING IN content for Flash for your multimedia project.

By midnight tonight: Post Blog 6 (graded). Link to at least TWO blogs or news stories about your subject AND include a photo or audio or video.

Blog with one of your classmates.

NO CLASS!

SPRING BREAK

HAVE FUN! BE SAFE!

NO CLASS!

SPRING BREAK

HAVE FUN! BE SAFE!

Designing Web pages: Typography

The Helvetica Hegemony: How an unassuming font took over the world

What’s in a name?

Experiment with words.

Start three Typography exercises (graded).

Designing Web pages: Design principles

Dreamweaver: Building a page with CSS boxes

Jakob Nielsen and Web usability

UseIt.com: Jakob Nielsen’s Web site

Begin work on Divided Families project.

Practice building a page in CSS.

Begin Abe Lincoln exercise (graded).

Read Divided Families handout.

Read The Principles of Type.

TURN IN three Typography exercises (graded).

By midnight tonight: Post Blog 7 (graded). Link to at least one blog or news story about your subject AND at least one YouTube video.

Blog with one of your classmates.

Designing Web pages: Color

Each team: Use CSS to design a home page and an inside page for Divided Families.

Work on Soundslides for all Divided Families stories in your section.

Make sure your final project page is in JMC 494 > Spring 2008.

TURN IN Abe Lincoln exercise (graded).

Pick one of the four logos from Course Documents. Refine it. Bring two versions to class:

1. Print out a hard copy to tape on the wall for another vote.
2. Put an electronic version (.psd, NOT .jpg) in your Student folder in the folder called Typography.

Read Divided Families stories.

BRING IN one idea for a Flash project AND a map mashup for Divided Families project.

Quiz review

Finish CSS template for inside page.

Work with Deanna Dent on Soundslides for all Divided Families stories in your section.

Work on individual map mashup (graded) for Divided Families.

Each team: BRING IN CSS version of one inside page. Discuss with teammates, refine, then print out a color copy for discussion and voting in class.

Each person: Bring in info for your individual map mashup.

By midnight tonight: Post Blog 8 (graded). Link to at least one blog or news story about your subject AND at least one YouTube video.

Quiz 2: Cyberlaw, typography, color, design, CSS and Flash

Finish inside page.

Work on Soundslides for Divided Families.

Study for quiz.

Each person: Send Carol link to map mashup (graded) for Divided Families project.

Storytelling with Flash

Load dynamic text into a text box.

Plan resources page for Divided Families.

Finish Soundslides for Divided Families.

End of class Thursday: TURN IN Soundslides for your section of Divided Families.

By midnight tonight: Post Blog 9 (graded). Make either this post or the next one a videoblog! It’s worth 25 points. See examples at MSU S-School students live blog.

Copyright issues

The art of writing captions

Discuss angle/focus for videoblog.

Make and script a Flash button.

Finish resources page for Divided Families.

Begin Flash for Divided Families.

Bring in info for your resources page for your Divided Families section(s), which is due at the end of class Tuesday.

Bring in info you need for your Flash project.

Bring in an idea for your videoblog.

Turn in Multimedia written critique (graded).

Legal and ethical issues in the digital age

Practice quiz on copyright (not graded)

Work on Flash for Divided Families, which is due before class on Tuesday.

Pick zine stories.

Read copyright handout.

E-mail Carol your revised map mashup.

By midnight tonight: Post Blog 10 (graded). If you did NOT do a videoblog last week, make this one a videoblog. It’s worth 25 points. See examples at MSU S-School students live blog.

The art of writing sidebars

Discuss ideas for zine Flash and sidebar.

Put Divided Families stories in template.

Before class: Turn in Flash for Divided Families.

Read Artwick Chapter 3.

Read the handout AND the three ethics cases. Be prepared to answer the questions in class. You might want to jot down notes, but you do NOT need to hand anything in. Use the SPJ code of ethics for guidance.

Read your zine story and bring in ideas for a Flash project AND a sidebar for one story.

SEO

Show me the money (business and advertising)

Finish Divided Families pages.

Troubleshoot each other’s sections of Divided Families.

Begin Flash for zine story.

Bring in what you need to do a Flash project for one story.

Turn in sidebar for zine story (graded). Look at examples.

OPTIONAL By midnight tonight: Post Blog 11 (graded) if you want to substitute this for a grade on another blog.

Finish Divided Families stories by Friday, April 18.

The future of online media

Quiz review

Work on Flash for zine.

Finish Divided Families stories by Friday, April 18.

TURN IN headline assignment (graded).

Careers in online media

Quiz 3: Captions, SEO, copyright and ethics

Try to finish Flash for zine.

Work on photos, captions and sidebars for zine.

E-mail Carol a short bio similar to what’s on the zine.

Study for quiz.

Read Artwick Chapter 10, which will help you review for the quiz.

Midnight Saturday: FINISH your Flash project for the zine (graded). Put it in the Zine Spring 2008 Final > flash.

Edit zine Soundslides from photo students. Try Freeplay Music for music.

Troubleshoot zine stories.

End of class: TURN IN photos and captions for zine story (graded).

End of class: TURN IN Soundslides for zine (graded).

NOON instead of 11:40 a.m.

Last day to turn in extra credit.

Present Soundslides, team project and zine stories to class.

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CAROL SCHWALBE
cschwalbe@asu.edu
480-965-3614
Stauffer A-216

Tu 10–11:30 a.m.
Tu 1:30–2:30 p.m.
Th 10–11:30 a.m.
Th 1:30–2:30 p.m.
Or by appointment

THE LOVELY AND GRACIOUS MRS. DODGE
nancied1@earthlink.net
480-998-1398
Stauffer A-216

Tu 12:30–2:30 p.m.
Th 12:30–2:30 p.m.
Or by appointment