A handful of San Jose State journalism students are currently in the midst of a ten-day road trip taking them through the United States South and ultimately culminating at the inauguration of our 44th president, Barack Obama. The trip was the brainchild of Dr. Michael Cheers and Professor Bob Rucker, photojournalism and broadcast journalism teachers respectively.
According to the trip blog, “The goal for these journalism, advertising and public relations students — to walk back through time and learn at these historic sites how the blood, sweat and tears of the 1950s and 60s equal rights pioneers paved the way for all people of color, women, gays and lesbians, the disabled and religious cultural groups in America to be recognized, appreciated, and valued in our society, and to have equal opportunity to live the American dream.”
Below is a tentative schedule for the upcoming local day of the flying short course at SJSU on October 27th. We are still working on some last minute details in regards to the break-out sessions and so this may be subject to some change:
Richard Koci-Hernandez: Establishing a multimedia presence at your newspaper Dai Sugano / Gary Reyes: Video gathering and editing techniques
Audio: Audio gathering and editing techniques Vuvox: Jim Lanahan and Dane Howard Kevin German: Portrait Column @ Sac Bee and location lighting Gary Fong: Sell yourself and your work: How to become a successful freelance photographer
Latest Gear/Software from: Adobe, Apple, Canon, Nikon
1:00 – 1:50: Apple, Richard Koci-Hernandez, Audio I (Gathering Audio), Gary Fong
2:00 – 2:50: Adobe, Dai/Gary I (Gathering Video), Vuvox, Gary Fong
2:50 – 3:10: Short Break
3:10 – 4:00: Canon, Audio II (Editing Audio), Kevin German, Vuvox
4:10 – 5:10: Nikon, Dai/Gary II (Editing Video), Richard Koci-Hernandez, Kevin German
5:10 – 7: BBQ
7:00 – until: (Close of Print Auction) Portfolio Reviews
When last I wrote about San Jose State University, we were in the midst of a spring break trip to New York, Dr. Cheers had just been named the summer 2007 National Geographic faculty fellow, SJSU students were planning on helping out with the POYi awards, and Lauren, myself and Yvonne just accepted internships while Shaminder, Diana and Hanna were in the midst of theirs (I forgot to publish that post).
San Jose State will also be hosting the west coast installment of the NPPA Flying Short Course. We have been planning a variety of speakers, workshops and other events and will have everything together in time for the October 27-28 weekend. If you have any suggestions for what you would like to see feel free to drop me an email.
Lastly, something that has been in the works for some time now has finally been approved. The San Jose State photojournalism department will be holding multimedia workshops during the two summer sessions each year. Each session will be three weeks and will take place in a foreign country. The kicker, as if working on stories abroad was not enough, is that our school has two partners in this project. The Mercury News and National Geographic will each be sending either a photographer or an editor for one week to assist students as they learn multimedia storytelling techniques.
My intepretation of the SJSU NPPA Capitola Shootout held on Saturday, March 10, 2007. It was put together in Final Cut using stills from my camera and sound gathered with an Edirol R-09.
