Multimedia Critiques
Sign up during the day to have your work critiqued in an open group session Thursday or Friday evening by members of the faculty.
Maisie Crow is a freelance photographer and multimedia producer. In 2008, she began pursuing her master's degree in Visual Communication at Ohio University. She won the Ian Parry Scholarship and The Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Grant in 2009. Maisie was also runner-up College Photographer of the Year that same year.
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Sign up during the day to have your work critiqued in an open group session Thursday or Friday evening by members of the faculty.
Tom Sperduto will demonstrate how to create soft light and hard light for portraiture using various light tools such as Octa banks, grid spots, umbrellas, softboxes, and more.
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Join John Harrington, author of the best-selling ‘Best Business Practices for Photographers’, for an insightful and solutions-oriented presentation on how to generate more revenue from the assignments, through pricing examples and discussion, negotiation strategies, and demystifying licensing of your work.
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Margo Berman, Florida International University & Colin Lenton, Colin Lenton Photography and George Miller, Temple University
To succeed in photojournalism today, you must understand the business of visual journalism. This panel will examine issues of copyright and licensing, as well as other current legal issue facing photojournalists. Also, a few schools have established student photo agencies. What are the goals of such projects and what should others know before launching one at their schools.
Tips and suggestions to move students from photojournalism to documentary imaging, how to get students to think beyond single images, and wrestle with issues of subjects and photographers.
Teaching is important but grading student work is crucial. This panel will be an exchange of creative ideas on establishing grading criteria for photojournalism assignments, creating grading rubrics, as well as discussing how to help students learn photo concepts such as composition, lighting and content.
It ain't just black and white photos anymore. Today's visual journalists need to be able to gather audio, write stories and work on multiple platforms. How do we teach the teachers of the new technology?
At most universities, professors must have an active research or creative agenda, in addition to teaching. This panel will examine ways to stay professionally active and inspired in the midst of constant course preparation, grading and service obligations.
NSC TV Program
TV News is changing fast. How it is delivered and what constitutes news is changing with it. How will you adapt to new technologies, new audiences, and new demands on your skills.
read moreBethany Swain has been a photojournalist for CNN for more than six years. From covering the political conventions to spending 22 days embedded with Gov. Palin’s campaign, Swain played an active role in the network’s America Votes 2008 coverage.
read moreJoin John Harrington, author of the best-selling ‘Best Business Practices for Photographers’, for an insightful and solutions-oriented presentation on how to generate more revenue from the assignments, through pricing examples and discussion, as well as negotiation strategies.
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Bryan Barr of WBFF Fox 45 has been a Chief Photojournalist longer than he hasn't. In that time stuck in middle management, he has learned one classic fact in this business: honest hard work always trumps talent. Its true. In a perfect world, its best to have both. Given the requirement of choice, Bryan would hire someone who is has a positive attitude and is not afraid to get a little dirty. You will see some great stories highlighting both his work and that of the photojournalist staff at WBFF. You will leave his presentation with some helpful hints on how to get ahead in the modern television newsroom.
“It’s about the story, subjects and viewers, not us. It’s also about being a human being in the process.”
Learn how one guy learned it's about the story and the subject and definitely not him (and his pretty pictures). Les Rose believes that if a viewer doesn't like the subjects in a story, they won't like the story. And it is your challenge to bring the subject to the viewer.
read moreLes Rose, CBS News is excited about coaching our Tape critiques sessions. Bring your stories and a willingness to learn from each other and the best in the business. We look forward to a lively tape critique session on Friday night. Tape critiques will be available Friday evening and throughout the conference on Saturday. Arrangements will be announced at the start of the program.
Please bring all stories on DVD format.
Fiburn's workshop will focus on lighting people well, under deadline without spending a fortune. With his great bag of lighting tricks Sean will show us how we can improve your speed and style with some inexpensive options for less than $50.00.
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