Multimedia Project and FCP Class
Posted by nycpaula01 on February 22, 2009
Some day I will figure out how to not only do all the learning and training (and day job and running and cycling and socializing) I need to do, but also how to capture all of that in two blogs. Since that day has not yet arrived, I shall continue to lag pathetically in updating what had started out as my initial forays into learning new stuff.
It’s been a wild and busy time on a couple of key learning-multimedia fronts:
–Last week I spent two days working on a photos/video-spearheaded project that we’ll put out in a few weeks.
My job was to help a photographer craft a print story from the video interviews that had been done by two colleagues and from her own observations. At the same time, I got to observe as four photojournalists pulled together months’ worth of photos and video and interviews … some really, really compelling stuff.
It was a fascinating experience and an absolute joy to be part of. Among other things, I loved how the photographers’ interview questions were much, much better than those that many traditional print reporters come up with. And how those same photographers excelled at recognizing the truly compelling sound bites and quotes — again, better than many print reporters do. I’d love to capture this and share it somehow.
–My Final Cut Pro class is digging into learning the software. The instructor, Michael Grabowski, is an outstanding technical teacher and also terrific at giving the bigger picture (as it were). I’m really loving it, although exhausted by the fact that it ends at 9:30 and I don’t get back to Riverdale until 10:50 or so, on top of getting up at 4:30a on the days on either side of it.
And, it’s frustrating that so far I haven’t had much chance to practice, what with everything else being so busy. And I’m the type who really has to practice this stuff before fully grasping it.
–I bought myself an FCP keyboard. A HUGE help in learning.
–I did practice Flash for a day and made some progress there. Now I need to devote some quality time to putting it to actual use.
–Continue to get great feedback on the APKnows piece on Getting Wired. Shows that there’s a big appetite out there for this kind of training. I’m delighted that I get to do it.
And now, back to my day job (on a Sunday …)
