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2020 Impact ReportLauren M. Whaley brought Erin Siegal McIntyre and Carrie Ching together to speak about multimedia storytelling at the Conference and Mentoring Project last month. Here is a list of stories and tools and other helpful resources from the panel.
Examples shown during presentation:
Snowfall (NYTimes)
Firestorm (Guardian)
Tomato Can Blues (NYT)
Symbolia (Erin Polgreen)
1 in 8 million (NYTimes)
California is a place website; Interview with the creators is here
Resources for learning multimedia, on your own:
Interactive Narratives: ONA’s online site for sharing multimedia
Duckrabbit Blog: Photography, multimedia, etc. Good critical insight on stuff happening in the photo and multimedia world.
Knight Digital Media Center at Berkeley offers multimedia training for journalists.
Essential multimedia field reporting kit by Koci Hernandez
Finding the Frame: Submit your multimedia piece for feedback from other journos
Berkeley J-School Multimedia page
Build a timeline, the easy way:
Music to use (within your own ethical framework):
Soundcloud: Free music and sound database; searchable by use (commercial, non-commercial, etc) or by type/ keyword
MobyGratis Ask for permission, and Moby lets you use his original tracks for noncommercial use
Song Freedom (low cost)
https://vimeo.com/musicstore (low cost)
http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/Video/
Basic gear we like:
Audio recorder: H4N Zoom, Olympus LS 11, Marantz 661
Mics: Rode N-TG2, Audio Technica 897, wireless lavs, wired lavs
Photography: Canon 5D Mark II,
ONLY IF YOU HAVE TO: iPhone
Where to get gear:
www.bhphotovideo.com has an extensive used gear section
www.adorama.com does too! Call ‘em and ask what else is in stock, much more is unlisted.
Freeware to use:
Audacity: Edit audio
Soundslides: download for a free trial
MPEG Squared: Must-have for transcoding/ switching formats for video footage
Software to pay for or acquire:
Adobe Audition (video editing)
ProTools
FiRe (iPhone)
FinalCut Pro (video editing)
iMovie (video editing, comes on Mac computers)
Inspiration to click around:
Zeega: Online platform for sharing videos
Cowbird: Short online multimedia
http://newdev.viiphoto.com/films/
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/
