tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18518600386885770872024-03-05T09:14:49.698-08:00Film me a RiverR. Gosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00384932257521127906noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851860038688577087.post-82109724347648621782012-05-08T23:11:00.001-07:002012-05-09T16:07:21.397-07:00An Interview with Teresa Lane<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Anyone out there who reads this blog
will know that I both break promises and am terrible at blogging. The post on the <a href="http://filmmeariver.blogspot.com/2012/04/puroposes.html">two local filmmakers</a> never
got put up because after my interview with them they invited me to come onto
one of their shoots and get some behind the scenes footage for my piece. Since then we have not been able to work out
a time we can all get together and make this happen. I’ll keep working on it though so look for a
post on this in the near future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">In the meantime I’m posting an
assignment for my Journalism 111 class, the first part of a series on a news organization
and their switch to multimedia reporting.
This interview was with a young student from WSUV. She’s also an old friend of mine, and really
it was just a treat for me to sit down and talk to the gorgeous Teresa
Lane. Be sure to check out her blog
linked at the end!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">April 27<sup>th</sup>, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I met up with Teresa Lane by the coffee
machines in the new downtown library. She greeted me with her usual, “hey what’s up?”
as she sat totally comfortable and relaxed.
After snapping batteries into my audio recorder and letting her know
that she should feel free to interject with interviewing tips, we began talking
about multimedia journalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Robbin
Goss: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Alright, this is
Teresa Lane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Teresa
Lane: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Hello.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">R.G.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> Hello.
Um ok Teresa so we’re going to be talking about multimedia journalism
and I hear that you work for the VanCouger newspaper and WSU Vancouver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">T.L.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6taescdjGEIq5kgpOBsm_a2FvVTeTegk-Qh5ePRWgheCFfG3GaQZPFvWQ3NSZlo1mZv8ha41c7EGOczg4aoMYbqDgXYkU5-d89ax6a8ipQTuaSCtTZYAFglSAPkJCO8w2C6cWx8Oeyt4Y/s1600/Teresa-Smiling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6taescdjGEIq5kgpOBsm_a2FvVTeTegk-Qh5ePRWgheCFfG3GaQZPFvWQ3NSZlo1mZv8ha41c7EGOczg4aoMYbqDgXYkU5-d89ax6a8ipQTuaSCtTZYAFglSAPkJCO8w2C6cWx8Oeyt4Y/s320/Teresa-Smiling.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">R.G.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> What is your position at the VanCouger?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">T.L.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> I’m a reporter at the VanCouger. I’ve been working there since January. Mostly I just, you know, every edition of the
VanCouger I try and put in 2 articles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">R.G.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> At the VanCouger, how have you seen, or have
you seen at all, any kind of a switch from printed news to a multimedia
grounding?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">T.L.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> The VanCouger itself hasn’t really done
that. We don’t have a website yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">R.G.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> In how you have used multimedia in your
journalism, what do you see as some advantages and then some disadvantages of
using that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">T.L.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> Well one of the articles that I wrote was
about disability services at WSUV and I think, you know, one of the things is
that it’s really beneficial to be able to take pictures of things and to
videotape things because it allows people that maybe can’t read or don’t have
as good of vision or that kind of thing to also experience whatever you’re
reporting about. There’s that - of
course there’s that aspect of being able to describe something entirely without
words which is also nice. I mean you don’t
really wanna read an article that’s all description. You wanna know the facts. But when you see a picture you’re like, “Ok
that was what the event looked like,” and that is cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">R.G.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> What do you think the future of new reporting
and journalism is going to look like?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">T.L.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> In my COM101 class, we talked about mobile
applications a lot. And I think that,
you know, and more these days people want to, even instead of computers or just
the internet on the computer, they wanna be able to have an application on
their phone that says, “Tell me the news,” and then, “Oh well this happened
today,” and, “oh isn’t that sad.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">One of the things someone said in my
class was that, “Instead of looking for the news, the news finds you that way.” I think that that’s really powerful. And in some ways, it’s also kind of scary
because we’re being told what to think rather than going out and trying to find
things that we want.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We walked down to The Academy to take a couple pictures.</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">R.G.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> As a news writer do you embrace your reader
getting found by the news, or would you still like the reader to be actively looking
for your writing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">T.L.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> Being part of a newspaper, I think it’s
really powerful to be able to appeal to your audience definitely. And I think that if we had an online website
that we would be able to access more readers and access maybe the people that
don’t want to pick up a newspaper every day or someone like that. I think that being found by your reader is
not necessarily the way people are going about things any more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Teresa’s blog: <a href="http://wherethingsbegin.wordpress.com/">wherethingsbegin.wordpress.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Thanks everyone for reading and till
next time, Valete! </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">(Latin)</span></div>
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<br /></div>R. Gosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00384932257521127906noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851860038688577087.post-50655135164737673562012-04-27T08:30:00.000-07:002012-05-09T16:08:45.275-07:00Multimedia Journalism Assignment: Tracking 2 Blogs<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The two blogs I have been tracking
for the past two weeks are; <a href="http://philipbloom.net/blog/">Philip Bloom’s blog</a> about filmmaking, specifically
with DSLR cameras, and the<a href="https://www.smartbrief.com/un_wire/index.jsp"> United Nations Wire</a>, a blog written by the UN and
containing top news stories from around the world. In this week’s update on the two blogs, I
will give each of them a brief overview and talk about their target audiences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Philip Bloom’s blog is the main part
of his website<a href="https://www.smartbrief.com/un_wire/index.jsp"> philipbloom.net</a>. As I
found out by following Philip Bloom on twitter, he is very tech savvy and
vocal. He tweets almost hourly. His blog is likewise updated around 5-6 times
every week. Most of his posts are about
events that he attends or hosts, reviews of new equipment, features of people
(both photographers and not), and occasionally segments containing tips for up
and coming filmmakers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The demographic that Philip Bloom’s
blog is aiming for is fairly diverse.
Although the theme of DSLR filming is probably prominent in most of his
followers, there is not much else that singularly defines them. Age targeting does not play into his posting
(although he does tend to use younger phrases and things like smiley
faces). He also travels all over the
world making frequent comments about the places he stops, so location doesn’t
play a part. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The UN Wire takes firstly the form
of a daily email to its followers.
Getting both the emails and subscribing to the blog like I did is
completely pointless because they contain the same articles, although many more
people use the email option. Many of the
articles cover similar topics to things being discussed currently in the UN as
far as I can tell, and many of them have fairly brief commentary and additional
information sections and then link you to articles from world known media
outlets that cover the same topic of the article or were cited. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The UN Wire doesn’t seem like it has
an audience that it actively seeks out because there is no commercial purpose
behind it. That being said, most of the
briefs and linked articles have a sophisticated upper-class feel to them that
will both appeal to some and get on other’s nerves. The fact of many more email subscribers than
blog followers could also hint at a slightly older and less tech savvy
audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Next week I will go into more
specifics about the blogs and explain what I think about some of their blogging
practices. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ha det bra! (Norwegian) </span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>R. Gosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00384932257521127906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851860038688577087.post-28509375865281439632012-04-18T19:34:00.002-07:002012-04-26T18:01:12.220-07:00PurposesOf course the umbrella purpose of this blog is to complete an assignment in my Multimedia Journalism class at Clark College. For this reason I will be posting occasionally about topics not related to the theme of the blog, but which are required studying for the class.<br />
The second purpose of this blog is to continue my enlightenment into the world of the interconnected web of the world wide web, whether it is on a device or a good old tower and monitor. This enlightenment of such social and news media as Twitter and Blogger are a result of necessity. I hope my previous view on these sites, and current view, will become clearer as I post about Multimedia Journalism. <br />
The last purpose of this blog is an outlet, and hopefully a catalyst, of my interest in learning about and producing cinematography and photography.<br />
To leave with a cliff hanger, I will say that I am lining up an interview with a local duo who produce quirky YouTube videos. I hope to have a filmed interview and a link to their page up by late next week.<br />
Thanks for reading and till next time, tot siens! (Afrikaans)R. Gosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00384932257521127906noreply@blogger.com1