Kid President!!!

iReport

iReport is a very intersting site. For me, It seems like a great place that gathers stories so that I don't have to search for them. The article in particular that I found to my interest the most was the football article.

Having different categories to find things that you are interested I think is key. People are able to write there own stories and CNN decides if they will feature it.

Explore. Discover. Contribute. These are the 3 main words that CNN uses to describe there site. After looking over there site these 3 words accurately describe iReport.

 Having this website I think is very beneficial to allow people the chance for their work to be seen by others. A very useful social network site for news!!

Multimedia Story Telling- Slideshow Write-up

Alan Weiss visited Lyndon State College on Monday, October 21 to give a presentation open to the public. Weiss is a seven-time Emmy Award winner as a producer and writer.

Weiss graduated from Northwestern University with a Master’s Degree in Journalism in 1974. Later that year he joined ABC to start his wonderful career.

At ABC Weiss was a writer for Ted Koppel, who hosted “World News Tonight-Weekend Edition.” He started off as a writer, but quickly rose towards the top.

ABC chose Weiss to launch the newly created “5 O’ Clock Eyewitness News” broadcast. It became the most popular five p.m. news broadcast in New York City in just three months. 

Weiss was the first person to report on the death of John Lennon in 1980. He was in a motor cycle accident, and while in the hospital Weiss overheard a police officer tell another cop about the shooting.

He was noticed nationally for his story on Lennon, and his story won Weiss his second Emmy Award in news. 

Albert Primo and Weiss are the co-creators of “Teen Kids News” and together are the executive producers. The show is weekly half-hour long shows that has teenagers report on current events in the news. 

The news broadcast has been on for over eleven years and has produced over 500 shows. Weiss wanted to create a news broadcast that targeted kids.

Teen Kids News has won an Emmy Award, another credential to add to Weiss’ resume. About two hundred television stations carry Teen Kids News, and the broadcast is shown to the military all over the world. 

Weiss had the audience laughing throughout his presentation at Lyndon State College. The Audience was attentive, asking questions and engaging with Weiss for the hour and a half presentation.

When the presentation was over, students rushed to the front of the room to hopefully talk with Weiss. Everyone that wanted to speak to him was able to, and he seemed overjoyed to talk to students. 

After everyone had left the room, Weiss was nice enough to allow Andrew Baughn to ask him a few questions. He was very outgoing, pleasant, and easy to talk to.

The Society of Professional Journalist Club of Lyndon State was responsible for having Weiss come to the Northeast Kingdom. Weiss’ appearence was their largest event of the year.

Photos: Mike Raimondi and Shane Lacroix

Photo Editing: Mike Raimondi and Shane Lacroix

Slideshow Editing: Andrew Baughn and Mike Raimondi

Audio: Andrew Baughn

Text: Mike Raimondi

Slideshow Synopsis

Our group slideshow project is about 7-Time Emmy Award Winner & New York Producer Alan J. Weiss. He will be visiting Lyndon State College on behalf of the SPJ Club to speak in front of students and faculty.

We will be recording the presentation and an interview with Alan. The interview will be conducted by Andrew after Alan’s presentation. Shane and Mike will take pictures and will be responsible for recording the presentation and interview.

The presentation and interview will be on Monday, October 21, 2013 at 7:30pm.  The slideshow will tie the interview and the presentation together.

The presentation will be centered around working in the major market, breaking the “big story,” and how news has changed during Weiss’ career. The interview will be focused around Weiss, and how he got started and other things about his life.

The sound sources we plan to use are audio from the presentation and the interview. We may also include some background music if needed.

The intended audience is our fellow classmates and anyone who has an interest in multimedia journalism and television studies. The story will be interesting for the audience because it will show viewers how multimedia has evolved over time and can be used to tell a story in a modern and entertaining way.

Andrew Baughn: Recorder and Interviewer

Shane LaCroix: Photographer and Recorder

Mike Raimondi: Photographer and Recorder

sound slides practice

Photo Gallery

The photo gallery is of a a local Photographer that I know from the area. He does many different types of photos and editing but the gallery I looked at was his Sports Album. He has done shots of me of me and I actually appear in the gallery! Each picture shows different moments in high school sports from the local area. His action shots are really good in my opinion!! Here is his Facebook link to his Sports gallery! (You may have to log in to view them) https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.261628453880776.61764.245225078854447&type=3

Slideshow Critique

The first Slideshow I critiqued is the slideshow of from the Red Sox tigers Game 1 of the League Championship Series. There are a total of 15 photos that change roughly every 7 seconds. because the game included two teams there are not a lopsided amount of photos of one team over the other. This slide show does not have audio, but it does have captions and is able to tell the mood of the game at that given time. Knowing the outcome before doing this assignment it is hard to know if I would know what was happening just by looking at the pictures. Sound in this situation wouldn't do much of a difference unless it was a reporter talking about the game as the photos were happening. Here is the link to check it out! http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_10_12_detmlb_bosmlb_1#gid=2013_10_12_detmlb_bosmlb_1&mode=photos

The second slideshow I critiqued is one the captures Vermont's Fall Foliage from the lens of another person. It is a long slideshow of still photos that last over 5 minutes. The back ground music is "The Lord's Prayer, By Larry Carlton."  The music allows me to relax an enjoy this person's journey through VT looking at the wonderful scenery that I see everyday. By having these photos and not having a set story with them all I think it allows the audience to create there own story of what was happening. Check it out here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hBWFccfeuk

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