I often find that adding a little music to my news videos or audio pieces makes the pieces stronger. The music helps set a tone and create an appropriate mood. Before Kant Desai began producing most of the music for Lives in Focus, I relied mostly on Incompetech.com for royalty free music. I highly recommend [...]
I attended a talk in NYC put together by the American Society of Picture Professionals titled “Bridging the gap between still and moving images.” It was a presentation by the husband and wife team of Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur in which they detailed their evolution from photographer and writer respectively to collaborative multimedia storytellers. [...]
Here are tips for journalists on Live-Blogging hearings, trials, community board meetings, press conferences, panels and conferences (hence forth called “events”). Not all the elements listed below are required. Remember there is no orthodoxy on how you live-blog: Be prepared before the speakers/panelists even begin speaking: 1. Have panelists’ names and titles typed out and [...]
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