Week 8
FIELD NOTES
This week, 5 of the 6 multimedia pieces posted were video! Photographer Gary Reyes is making a concentrated effort to become comfortable with video and shot three of his assignments in video. For two of the those assignments, he pulled stills from the video, and in the other, he shot stills as backup, which I think he did because the situation was more visual and he preferred to have higher quality stills. Pauline Lubens also is continuing to work with video and produced a Menlo Park Art Marketplace story. She uses a “stills style”– steady frame, interesting compositions in a montage format, which is similar to the intro of her Hollister Biker’s piece.
Menlo Park Art
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2006/07/15/art-in-menlo-park-2/
Santa Cruz Beaches
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2006/07/13/rural-santa-cruz-beaches-to-become-state-park/
World Cup Fans
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2006/07/09/world-cup-fans/
Mumbai Vigil
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2006/07/16/mumbai-train-bombing-vigil/
In a discussion after the Santa Cruz beach story, Gary said, “Now my mind is racing before the shoot – which tool do I use – audio, video, stills – do I do a slideshow or video… it used to be use a camera and get the job done.” With the new tools and formats, the photographers, can choose a medium that offers the most compelling way to tell the story. But, at this point, Gary basically wants to get some video practice for the future when it may be critical to use. He doesn’t want to be in a situation where they ask for video and he has no experience doing it.
For the Cupfans story, Gary and Nhat Meyer, were able to export the video as a quicktime from iMovie and post it to the site using our Wordpress blog setup by themselves using the instruction sheet that Richard provided to everyone. I didn’t really have time to help much as I was solo on the editing shift that night. But the process was easy to pick up and on subsequent days, I went over export settings with Richard. For the Vigil story I was able to help Gary smooth out some of the video editing transitions, since there was another picture editor on shift. Gary had shot about 12 minutes of footage which was narrowed down to :45 second.
Karen Borchers was requested to shoot video at a small interview with Steve Westly, the democratic candidate for Governor that was defeated in the primary. Usually photographers are given a choice, but this was more of a favor to the writer of the story, who’s helped write and record narration for some of our more extensive political slideshows for Dai.
Other Multimedia Issues:
We sold our 1st Banner ad on mercurynewsphoto.com Someone in Advertising sold the ad on the site without realizing that had never done that before. Richard is trying to figure out how that will work. He said it’ll be unobtrusive.
When pulling stills from video, the imaging department has to process them slightly differently – I think they uses Noise Ninja to help reduce noise. I’ll have to find out more details.
All the photographers received more equipment: Sennheiser shotgun microphones with Beachtek boxes coming, wide angle adapters for the video camera, and new Edirol/Roland sound recorders.
Since we’re producing a good number of slideshows, Geri went over the picture story editing process checklist (from MPW and Fundamentals) with me, Elly and Maria Avila, the latest photo hire.
Work Issues:
The 2006 San Jose Grand Prix is coming up and we are discussing technical/style issues, logistics, and story ideas.
Had a discussion with Elly discussion about how to work more effectively with some of the more senior designers, who sometimes don’t consult us about photo usage.
This week, 5 of the 6 multimedia pieces posted were video! Photographer Gary Reyes is making a concentrated effort to become comfortable with video and shot three of his assignments in video. For two of the those assignments, he pulled stills from the video, and in the other, he shot stills as backup, which I think he did because the situation was more visual and he preferred to have higher quality stills. Pauline Lubens also is continuing to work with video and produced a Menlo Park Art Marketplace story. She uses a “stills style”– steady frame, interesting compositions in a montage format, which is similar to the intro of her Hollister Biker’s piece.
Menlo Park Art
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2006/07/15/art-in-menlo-park-2/
Santa Cruz Beaches
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2006/07/13/rural-santa-cruz-beaches-to-become-state-park/
World Cup Fans
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2006/07/09/world-cup-fans/
Mumbai Vigil
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2006/07/16/mumbai-train-bombing-vigil/
In a discussion after the Santa Cruz beach story, Gary said, “Now my mind is racing before the shoot – which tool do I use – audio, video, stills – do I do a slideshow or video… it used to be use a camera and get the job done.” With the new tools and formats, the photographers, can choose a medium that offers the most compelling way to tell the story. But, at this point, Gary basically wants to get some video practice for the future when it may be critical to use. He doesn’t want to be in a situation where they ask for video and he has no experience doing it.
For the Cupfans story, Gary and Nhat Meyer, were able to export the video as a quicktime from iMovie and post it to the site using our Wordpress blog setup by themselves using the instruction sheet that Richard provided to everyone. I didn’t really have time to help much as I was solo on the editing shift that night. But the process was easy to pick up and on subsequent days, I went over export settings with Richard. For the Vigil story I was able to help Gary smooth out some of the video editing transitions, since there was another picture editor on shift. Gary had shot about 12 minutes of footage which was narrowed down to :45 second.
Karen Borchers was requested to shoot video at a small interview with Steve Westly, the democratic candidate for Governor that was defeated in the primary. Usually photographers are given a choice, but this was more of a favor to the writer of the story, who’s helped write and record narration for some of our more extensive political slideshows for Dai.
Other Multimedia Issues:
We sold our 1st Banner ad on mercurynewsphoto.com Someone in Advertising sold the ad on the site without realizing that had never done that before. Richard is trying to figure out how that will work. He said it’ll be unobtrusive.
When pulling stills from video, the imaging department has to process them slightly differently – I think they uses Noise Ninja to help reduce noise. I’ll have to find out more details.
All the photographers received more equipment: Sennheiser shotgun microphones with Beachtek boxes coming, wide angle adapters for the video camera, and new Edirol/Roland sound recorders.
Since we’re producing a good number of slideshows, Geri went over the picture story editing process checklist (from MPW and Fundamentals) with me, Elly and Maria Avila, the latest photo hire.
Work Issues:
The 2006 San Jose Grand Prix is coming up and we are discussing technical/style issues, logistics, and story ideas.
Had a discussion with Elly discussion about how to work more effectively with some of the more senior designers, who sometimes don’t consult us about photo usage.
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