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Jour 215 Multimedia Reporting Spring 2020 Covid-19 Edition Brian K. Johnson UL TI • Professor • EDIA 10 Gregory Hall • [email protected] MM • (217) 898-1894 ••• Office Hours • Zoom/FaceTime by Appointment ••• Photo from NASA Brian K. Johnson is a full professor in the department of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He started his journalism career as a staff photojournalist at The News-Gazette in Champaign and has been teaching at the University since 1988. Johnson has received recognition for his teaching including being selected as a Vice Chancellor's Teaching Scholar and as Faculty Member of the Year from the University of Illinois Dads Association. He was twice the head of the Visual Communications Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and was vice president of the Illinois Press Photographers Association. He has served the department of journalism at the University as director of graduate studies, associate department head and as department head. Johnson is an ally in the lgbt ally network sponsored by the UIUC Office of Inclusion & Intercultural Relations Research/Creative Endeavor Johnson has received more than 60 national, regional and state awards for his photojournalism, multimedia and videos. Johnson's work has been published in the New York Times , the Chicago Tribune , the Washington Post , USA Today , Newsday and others. He was the editor of the book, C-U in Seven Plus, A Week (Plus a little bit more) in the Life of Champaign-Urbana . He has won prizes in the Horizon Interactive awards, National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year and the Telly Awards. His multimedia project This Bond won Best Faculty Creative Project from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Visual Communication Division. He teaches classes in multimedia reporting and photography. Contact Information: [email protected] (217) 898-1894 cell Office: Room 10 Gregory Hall Mailing address: 117 Gregory Hall 810 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL 61801 ©2020 Brian K. Johnson, All Rights Reserved 1 Welcome, I’m glad that you are in my Multimedia Reporting class. All are welcome! This will be an Purpose intensive hands-on class that will demand your attention and time. You will be rewarded by your semester accomplishments. Journalism is changing — it is becoming a broader landscape with more potential than ever before. The multimedia storytelling techniques you will learn in this course are crucial to your success as a 21 st Century journalist. You will acquire new skills and refine skills acquired in previous media courses. Audio, video, photos and text Scope will be in your toolbox during the course and you will learn how these abilities can be applied to Web and mobile multimedia for journalism and reporting. This course will explore storytelling and ways digital technologies are impacting journalism. Instruction will include conceptual frameworks and methodologies to produce multimedia journalism content; the conception, planning, and creation of multimedia projects; coverage of events using audio, video, photographs and/or text; the technical and creative aspects of digital photography, video, and multimedia; presenting your work on the Web and mobile platforms. You will also use video blogging and live “micro” blogging. D UPDATE Labs were meeting in room 03, Gregory Hall from 10 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays. Conduct of the Lecture will be in Lincoln Hall 1002 from 10 a.m. to Course 11:20 a.m. on Fridays. Now we will use this time for individual video conferences as requested or needed using Zoom or FaceTime. Lectures will be recorded as will lab How To sessions. There will be weekly quizzes on the lecture material that you will submit in the individual UofIBox folders I’ve created for you. The lecture and lab material will be in the general UofIBox folder that you all have access to or YouTube. D UPDATE Watching and taking notes as well as applying these lessons to your assignments is required. I recommend Attendance keeping to a regular schedule with the lecture and lab material. Multimedia journalism requires a great deal of time to complete assignments. You can’t “cram” for a multimedia reporting project like you might be able to for a test in another class. Course Outline–Brian K. Johnson University of Illinois Journalism Multimedia Reporting 2 Violations of academic integrity are serious offenses Academic Integrity and students guilty of such infractions will be penalized. hUtntpiv:/er/sisttyu odfe Inllticnoodise S.itlluidneonist .Cedodu e The code stipulates the penalties. In general, if you are found to have plagiarized or cheated on an assignment you will earn zero points for that assignment. You will also earn zero points for the participation portion of the final grade and may also fail the class. You would have the right of appeal to the Department of Journalism Academic Appeals Committee. Journalism Next Fourth Edition Required Texts By Mark Briggs , SAGE Publications, Inc . ISBN: 978-1544309446 Either paper or electronic versions that relate to the course. Recommended hLtitnpkse:/d/Inw Lebe.aurinlliinngo icso.eudruse/sl inkedinlearning •SDHC memory cards (One should be16 GB or Supplies larger. The second one must NOT be larger than 32 GB.) •Batteries: AA Lithium (about four) AAA alkaline or lithium (one to two) •External USB hard drive The lab facility is shared by other UI journalism and Open Lab Hours Media students — a lab use schedule should be posted on the door of the lab. Computers will be available on a first come, first seated basis and you may use the lab when not reserved for other classes. The lab’s key-card access door allows you in any time the building is open. You are responsible for keeping the lab neat and Lab cleaning up after yourself. Please pick up the area Maintenance around your computer and log out when you are done. Be sure to save all of your data on your external hard drive – don’t save your work on the internal hard drives of the computers. Multimedia Reporting University of Illinois Journalism Course Outline–Brian K. Johnson 3 To get above an average grade, you must go beyond the minimum. You must demonstrate quality, Grading inventiveness and initiative going clearly beyond the required. Put in the extra effort to get effective pictures and video: Shoot from a variety of vantage points, take pictures at many locations, get in close to your subjects, use the available light to advantage. Record clear audio and steady video. Once you have that great media be sure you have planned your project to be efficient. Story and programming are as important as the skill of the original shooting and recording. Above all, be creative. Show me a part of yourself through your projects. Blow me away with your work. WPuobrlki shhaasb elxec aesp tiiso annadl mweorrith: syu opfe driiosrt ivnicstiioonn, :c 9re0a%ti v+i ty, Work is initiative in problem solving, thoughtfulness and evaluated on a effort, and fulfills all assignment requirements and goals in an exceptional and significant manner. publishablity Technical quality of work is excellent; editorial content scale is substantive and relevant to issues in the greater Champaign-Urbana community or beyond. WPuobrlki sihs awbellel adso nise o arn wd ietxhh mibiintso gr oreovdi sviiosniosn: , c 8re0a-8ti9v% ity, initiative, thoughtfulness and effort. Work fulfills assignment requirements and goals in a better-than- average manner. Technical quality and/or aesthetics and/or editorial content can be made suitable for publication with minor revisions. WPuobrlki sihs aobf laev oernalgye w qiuthal mitya. jWoro rrekv eisxihoinbsit:s a c c e 6p5t-a7b9l% e but average vision, creativity, initiative in problem solving, thoughtfulness and effort, and fulfills assignment requirements and goals in an average manner. Work can be made suitable for publication only if supplemented with additional raw material. Work demonstrates serious effort to fulfill the assignment but falls short. WNotr kp uisb olifs bhealbowle :a v e r a g e q u a l i t y a n d w h o l l y 0-64% unacceptable for publication due to technical or editorial reasons. Work does not demonstrate serious effort to fulfill the assignment requirements and goals. Work that is not submitted or submitted after deadline: 0% (zero points) Course Outline–Brian K. Johnson University of Illinois Journalism Multimedia Reporting 4 Deadlines are very important in the real world and in Deadlines this class. An assignment that is late will earn zero (0) points for that assignment. Assignments will be due at the times stipulated on the schedule page of this syllabus. Project one — Camera Experiment 25 Assignment Project two — Point Values People/Places/Things 50 Project three — Event Photo Story 75 Project four — Video Interview 100 Project five — Audio/Photo Story 100 Project six — Video Essay 150 Project seven — Website Project 0 ED CANCEL Project eight — Portfolio Website 0 ED CANCEL Midterm exam 100 Live Blogging Assignment 50 Attendance and Participation 50 EDUCED Weekly Lecture Quizzes 100 R TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS 800 Assignments will usually involve many hours of time outside class for planning, shooting, editing and designing. All work submitted must have been produced this semester for this class or a media outlet. Content created for graded assignments in other classes mustn’t be used in this course. Doing so will earn a zero for that assignment. Final grade: Minimum percentages A+ 96% B+ 86% C+ 76% D+ 66% F 59% A 93% B 83% C 73% D 63% and A– 90% B- 80% C– 70% D– 60% below Assignment W1. iFthin eisahcehd a pssroigjencmt wenitth, yyoouu rm nuasmt pe uobnl/iisnh :it published Components onto your WordPress site before the deadline.