Photojournalism From A Student’s Eye

Clip of the recently aired piece on the Santa Anita racetrack, which served as an assembly center for Japanese American internees during World War II.

The latest Final Cut screencasts cover adding a simple lower thirds to your project and creating a lower thirds template for use in multiple projects. If you know of a better way to create a lower thirds template within Final Cut (not using Motion or LiveType) please let me know. I managed to find a way to create one from my own experimenting and am not sure if it is the best way to do so.

When viewing in full screen I would recommend watching in HD in order to make out the text.

Adding lower thirds to your project:

Creating a lower thirds template:

As a child, I never really thought much of the crafts my grandmother would make. A frog out of a few rocks, a face out of dried leaves and acorns or an umbrella out of cigarette packages … It wasn’t until I saw an exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum showcasing crafts made in internment camps that I realized where she had learned to make these things and why she used the materials that she did and it definitely gave me a greater appreciation for that art and the subsequent art forms that she practiced once out of camp.

A similar exhibit is currently at the Smithsonian American Art Museum until January 30, 2011.

A basic photoshop tutorial on color correcting your image by setting your white and black points using levels.