Make your own cheap teleprompter with a few simple items
Brian Stiles shared this great video on the JEA Listserv and I had to pass it along. My students have
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Videography
JEA Curriculum Highlight: Lighting in Multimedia Broadcast
If you’re looking for a nice unit that spans a couple weeks and will help level your students up with
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Getting sequences with the five-shot method
Many new-to-video-journalism folks have encountered the same problem when they’ve logged and uploaded all their interviews and clips: not enough
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60 Second Docs a great source of inspiration
Indigenous Media’s 60 Second Docs channel provides inspiration for non-fiction video storytellers.
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Getting info from teaching staff for daily announcements
First, let me start by saying that I KNOW daily broadcast shows are time-consuming. They often aren’t even possible, depending
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Back to Basics: Focusing an interview
I teach in a small school; currently, we’re under 500 students, and that means I’m working with brand-new students who
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Follow Friday: Mobile-First Journalist Marcel Anderwert
An early adopter of mobile journalism, Marcel Anderwert, has been telling stories using his phone for a years already. In
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Here’s a nice tutorial by Claudio Zavala Jr. on How To Color Correct Video in Adobe Rush
Adobe Rush is a great video editing program available through Adobe on desktop machines and many mobile devices. If you’re
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Looking for a good explainer on Aperture for video? Check out this piece by Todd Wolfe
If you’re looking for a nice, quick explainer on how different aperture settings effect video, take a look at this
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