Smartphone Multimedia Reporting
Learn how to report compelling interactive visual stories using your mobile devices, apps and gear.
- Learn camera and photo techniques to get most out of smartphone apps
- Master visual story planning and writing to pictures
- Tips for using fee apps to create snackable and shareable content for mobile consumers
This training was recently delivered to reporters for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty at three training locations: Moscow, Bishkek and Tbilisi.
- With smartphones participants learn to produce multimedia reports that include photo, video, text, audio and location information. (Android and iPhone supported)
- With laptops they will learn how to create charts from data, report in pictures and maps, create timelines from spreadsheets and produce interactive elements that engage online audiences.
- Build a comprehensive multimedia slideshow using your new skills
Master mobile multimedia skills
- Learn how to use your smartphone to produce high quality multimedia
- Produce compelling video sequences
- Set up the camera and microphones to get the best quality
- Avoid common mistakes
- Write and format scripts for easy-to-record voice overs
- Learn how to produce NPR-style audio reports
- Use geo-location information in your field reporting
- Produce and share 360-degree photo and video panoramas
- Build strong photo packages for slideshows, collages and social media updates
- Master camera and photo techniques to get most out of smartphone apps
- Build photo/mapping story packages
- Prepare questions to get answers that cut together easily in an audio or video package
- Develop visual reporting skills
- Use free or low-cost Web services to create multimedia assets
- Quickly produce data-driven timeline stories with text, images, links, and video
- Find sources for visuals to add to mapping locations
- Move beyond static text and report with rich, interactive elements
- Use advanced editing and collaboration tools for larger projects
- Choose the best chart type for the data you have gathered
- Build data-driven surveys and polls and visualize the results
- Build embeddable interactive images with videos, photos, links, and text
- Transform numbers and spreadsheets into visualizations that provide impact
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