Posted May. 19, 2008
The New England Newspaper Association will hold the second of three multi-media training workshops -- under the umbrella of "Yes You Can: Multi-Media for the Web" -- which deal with producing news contents on several platforms -- print, broadcast and video.
The session will be held 9:35 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass. (Directions below.)
This series of workshops, developed by NENA's editorial committee, comes as more and more newsrooms are asking their reporters to write for the paper and the Web page and to produce a mini-video for the paper's Web site. In addition, photographers are now going on assignment to shoot, interview and provide content.
The May 22 session looks at the equipment you will need -- and it's not as expensive as you think. How to set up the shoot, how to shoot, how to question, how to act on-air. Storytelling on the Web and finding the right spots to shoot: Location inside, location outside. Sound.
The third session will be held 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12, at The Salem Evening News. To be discussed: Editing stories for the Web, The Salem News, Beverly, Mass. Highlights of this workshop: The editor's role in directing the project administratively. Handling projects and handling breaking news. Accepting clips from the public. Ethics. What next: When the staff returns from the field -- getting the project online. How we do it, how we did it: A look at the best in New England. This session will be morning only, 9:30-12:30 p.m. Further details on this seminar, along with directions, will be posted here.
Agenda, Thursday, May 22
9:00 Registration begins, coffee and refreshments served.
9:30 a.m.: Welcome, Rod Doherty, executive editor, Foster's Daily Democrat, and chairman of NENA's editorial committee.
9:35: Outfitting a photo staff and outfitting reporters on a budget, with Jon Hill, visuals and multimedia editor, The Sun, Lowell. He will talk on the equipment you will need -- and what the price tag will be.
10:30: Broadcast behavior, with Nicholas Pizzolato, associate online producer for Gatehouse Media New England. He will talk about reporters holding a point-and-shoot camera and doing an interview with a subject, and both reporter and and subject on camera at the same time. Several editors mention that reporters don't realize how they look on-air, so this session might be viewed as "broadcast basics."
11:15: The shoot, with Craig Murray, director of photography, The Enterprise of Brockton. He will talk about how to set up the shoot, sound, how to shoot, and how to find the right spots -- location inside, location outside.
12:15: Q&A for Hill, Pizzolato and Murray.
The speakers:
-- Jon Hill is visuals and multimedia editor at The Sun in Lowell. He started in newspapers in the 1980s as a stringer photographer and lab tech at Minuteman Publications, a chain of weeklies in Lexington, Bedford, Burlington, Billerica, Concord and Lincoln. Hill was a staff photographer at the Boston Herald from 1986 to 2005. Now in Lowell since 2005, he supervises a staff of nine in visuals, multimedia and web production. The Sun has been producing video for its website for more than two years -- one of the first New England newspapers to feature video on a regular basis. On the video side, he ran a video production business in the 1990s and has had freelance video used on WLVI-TV and WHDH-TV in Boston and has worked on the production crew for nat ional sports networks in live production of college sporting events and NASCAR racing.
-- Craig Murray is director of photography at The Enterprise in Brockton. He joined the photography staff at The Enterprise in 1980, was named chief photographer in 1990 and became director of photography in 1999. Is projects include helping to launch The Enterprise Sunday paper in 1981; working with the newspaper's pre-press department and initiated the paper's switch to color photography on all section fronts in 1990; introduced the Nikon D1 and made the switch to all digital photography in 1999, and initiated the development of multimedia videos and slideshows at The Enterprise in 2007. He has conducted staff training at The Enterprise and other GateHouse sites. His entry won the best audio slideshow at this year's NEPA contest, and he was part of the team that won this year's NEPA convergence award, for the paper's Wasted Youth series, which included nine videos and six audio slideshows.
-- Nicholas Pizzolato is associate online producer for GateHouse Media New England. He has been with Wicked Local since June 2005 when it was in its
planning stages. In his current position, he manages blogs for all 186 of the company's websites, producing four regular video blogs that are shared
with those websites and the GateHouse News Service, producing feature videos, and training reporters across the company in point and shoot
video shooting and editing.
Registration: $45 ($39 for second and subsequent registrants from same newspaper.) A mailer, with registration form has gone out. The registration form is also be posted at http://nenews.org. The form should be faxed to (978) 744-0333 and marked, "Check to follow."
Location: Eagle-Tribune Co., North Andover, Mass.
Directions to Eagle-Tribune:
From Interstate 495 north or south take exit 42A (sign says Route 114, Middleton). Go about 1 mile (up the hill). Just after you pass Northmark Bank on your right, the Eagle-Tribune entrance will be on your left.
From Interstate 93 north or south take exit 44 to Interstate 495 north. Once on 495, take exit 42A (sign says Route 114, Middleton). Go about 1 mile(up the hill). Just after you pass Northmark Bank on your right, the Eagle-Tribune entrance will be on your left.
For questions regarding the seminars, contact George Geers at (603) 226-1020 or e-mail plaidswede@hotmail.com.
Click below to view and print out a registration form.
REGISTRATION FORM
