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Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide
Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide offers clear advice on working across multiple media platforms and includes guides to creating and using video, audio, text and pictures.
This textbook contains all the essentials of good practice that are the bedrock to being a successful multimedia journalist and is supported by an immersive website at www.multimedia-journalism.co.uk which demonstrates how to apply the skills covered in the book, gives many examples of good and bad practice, and keeps the material constantly up to date and in line with new hardware, software, methods of working and legislation as they change. The book is fully cross-referenced and interlinked with the website, which offers the chance to test your learning and send in questions for industry experts to answer in their masterclasses.
Split into three levels – getting started, building proficiency and professional standards, this book builds on the knowledge attained in each part, and ensures that skills are introduced one step at a time until professional competency is achieved. This three stage structure means it can be used from initial to advanced level to learn the key skill areas of video, audio, text, and pictures and how to combine them to create multimedia packages. Skills covered include:
- Writing news reports, features, email bulletins and blogs
- Building a website using a content management system
- Measuring the success of your website or blog
- Shooting, cropping, editing and captioning pictures
- Telling stories through picture galleries and slide shows
- Recording, editing and publishing audio reports and podcasts
- Shooting and editing video and creating effective packages
- Streaming live video reports
- Creating breaking news tickers and using Twitter
- Using and encouraging user generated content
- Interviewing and conducting advanced online research
- Subediting, proofreading and headlining, including search engine optimisation
- Geo-tagging, geo-coding and geo-broadcasting
- Scripting and presenting bulletins
