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VIDEO: Watch a UPIU mentor at work
ShareAre you curious about how a UPIU workshop session goes? Check out this video of Terry FitzPatrick, one of UPIU’s mentors, as he offers tips and tricks to capturing multimedia. (One of our professor partners captured this video during a … Continue reading
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Tagged journalism, multimedia, Terry FitzPatrick, training, UPI, UPIU
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What makes a good sound bite?
Tips for video and audio journalists on getting good sound bites. Continue reading
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Tagged audio, documentary, journalism, radio, sound bites, students, television, Video
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Want good audio? Get sounds that paint a picture
UPIU Mentor Phil Rees shares tips on gathering ambient sound to paint a picture for audio reports. Continue reading
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Tagged ambient, BBC, broadcast, journalism, Phil Rees, radio, sound, UPIU
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Want to make good video? British TV correspondent offers tips
UPIU Mentor Phil Rees, an award-winning documentary producer and former BBC correspondent, joined our team to mentor broadcast students at our university partners around the world. Even if you focus on audio or text or another medium, Rees is here to help. Below, he shares basic technical tips on capturing good video. Continue reading
Audio basics: Structuring a feature story
UPIU Mentor Terry FitzPatrick offers a four-part outline for feature-length audio stories. Continue reading
Posted in Multimedia, Story development, Tips
Tagged audio, broadcast, diamonds, features, journalism, kissing ban, nut graph, radio, South Africa, Terry FitzPatrick, Tips, UPIU
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Get paid to write for UPI.com!
Are you a journalism student? Do you want to work as a paid freelancer?UPI.com is looking for a few good stories! Every j-student who posts a story on UPIU has a shot at a UPI.com byline, but now UPIU is looking for stories that will be written specifically for UPI.com. Three students who pitch the best story ideas will be paid $100 each to write those stories. Continue reading
Speaking a visual language
ShareHave you ever held a camera? “This means you are telling people, ‘I will speak Visual Language,’” says Artem Chernov, a Russian photojournalist and director of Photopolygon, a Russian photography site. You’re speaking Visual Language, as Artem calls it, but … Continue reading
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Video Blogging? Be Audacious.
ShareJacob Soboroff says grab a camera and get out there and film. His project, Why Tuesday, leads by example, using video interviews to create accountability through quality journalism. Soboroff did an excellent presentation for the February 24 DC Media Makers. … Continue reading
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Tagged AMC, Blogging, Flip, Jacob Soboroff, NPR, Video, videoblogging, videocracy, Why Tuesday
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