Write about challenges you expect to encounter in your newsrooms this summer. How confident are you about your newly acquired multimedia skills? How will you incorporate multimedia storytelling into your daily reporting?
Please write your comments in the comments section of this post.
Ben Corda
06.11.10
Though I am confident in my multimedia skills, I still believe that I will run into challenges this summer.
I believe that the institute has prepare me adequately with skills that I would have not learned at my university. I feel that I am as prepared as I can be.
Still nothing short of “real world” experience can prepare you for the fast paced and deadline demanding newsroom.
It is now up to my journalistic skill of never giving up and never taking no for an answer.
I will have to keep a level head and just roll with the punches as they come.
Challenges are not always bad and can inspire a higher level of work. They bring out the real work ethic in a person.
I will endeavor to overcome any challenges that I meet and use them as learning experiences.
Once a challenge as been vanquished, I can make sure to master/avoid an similar challenges that obstruct my path.
In Bloomington, I plan to use my multimedia skills to tell any story that comes my way. I even plan to make multimedia presentations, not only for the paper, but for my portfolio.
Kris Jennings
06.11.10
Changes I expect to encounter in the newsroom, would be a change in climate, such as different people whom I never have met and begin to make work relationships with them, and mostly i expect to learn more about of a newsroom itself hands on. I am very confident with the skills that I have learned at the Diversity Institute of Multimedia scholars, they have prepared me well and I am very appreciative of the opportunity of both being involve in the institute and going on to an internship. I will incorporate multimedia storytelling into my daily reporting by using what I have learned, keeping the reader or audience attention, asking effective questions, being aggressive when I have too. Interviewing will play a big part in my storytelling making the subject feel comfortable making more like a conversation than it being a interview. Also i hope i get the opportunity to produce soundslides, videoslides, just so i can use the information of which i have recently learned.
Justin Phillips
06.11.10
Honestly, after almost two weeks of making mistakes, learning solutions, discovering new methods and absorbing new information like a sponge, it’s going to take a few weeks at my next internship to truly decipher how much I’ve learned while with this class of multimedia scholars.
Progress may be a slow process, but after gaining experience both in the the classroom and out in the field, the learning curve for myself at my next internship has been straightened ever so slightly.
My biggest obstacle leaving this program will be my ability to properly process what I’ve learned when the time comes and also trusting my personal improvement as a journalist.
On the same note, the fact I am able to realize how trusting what I’ve learned could be my only problem down the road is another lesson taught to me during my time here. I’ve learned to be accountable and the importance of maintaining the ability to be one of my own toughest critics.
I plan to use my recent improvements in everything from shooting photos to editing video as often as possible at my next place of employment.
After getting lost in the streets of Nashville day after day and finding stories focused on the citizens who compose the inner fabric of the blanket that is this city, I’ve realized how powerful multimedia makes a story.
Whether it’s a still photo of an elderly husband and wife at a minor league baseball game or a Capoeira teacher kicking his leg in the air during a class session, visual and audio elements can bring print to life and I plan to rejuvenate any assignment I am given in the future with a little bit of what I learned in the past.
Ashley Benson
06.11.10
The Diversity Institute Program has revealed to me that I have some control issues! I also learned how to get over them by acknowledging other people’s level experience and accepting that they know WAY more than me! One day I will be able to tell a story however I want, but until then I am going to listen and let go. I have learned to love others opinions, because after all that’s what journalism is all about–being open minded I’ve always been interested in video editing and I never thought I would be good at it. After learning from my instructors here, I feel like I’ve been doing this for months. I am more confident than I thought I would be by the end of this. I know I will make a difference at Danville’s Advocate-Messanger by bringing multimedia. I will try to always think of two ways to tell the story so the danville community can have a choice, because everyone knows people like options. NEXT STOP: SUCCESS!
Eboni Jaggers
06.11.10
I am not sure if scared is the appropriate word to describe the feeling; maybe uneasy would be the better adjective. I know that I do not know what to expect Monday morning when I report to The Herald Mail for the first day of my internship. I can only be hopeful that everything I have learned here at the Diversity Institute will magically come back to my remembrance when I attempt to make my first video assignment as an intern at this publication. I know that it will. I am more than confident, but still, everyone has their moments when they doubt themselves. When I arrived here last Tuesday, I didn’t know how to turn on a video camera, let alone use one. So, the progress I have made over such a short time baffles even me. One thing is certain, my skin has to get tougher and fast! I am more than sensitive when it comes to people critiquing my work. If I am going to make it in this business, I know that somethings got to give in that department. I want to work on that little area of improvement most during my time in Hagerstown this summer. I want to continue to do video work at The Herald-Mail similar to what we did here at the Institute. I want to lend my newly found “expertise” to this paper in any way that I possibly can, and that starts by first stepping outside of the box and becoming THE standout intern. I am taking so many lessons away from this past week. I have met people who had a dream and conquered it. I don’t want to be the one who had it and let it float away. It all starts…now.
LaTasha Miles
06.11.10
The challenges I expect to encounter in the newsroom this summer are mainly the typical ones associated within the field of journalism (i.e. a contact not responding). However, I am convinced that I will be able to navigate myself through such a challenge with preparation and effective backup planning. I am confident in my newly acquired multimedia skills. I feel I have a lot of the basics, but I do wish to become more advanced and faster. I do think that the more often I use multimedia during my internship, the better I will become. I will incorporate multimedia in my storytelling by using it to properly elaborate and provide visual effects within my stories. I will think about my audience when utilizing multimedia and cater to them.
Renoil Simpkins III
06.11.10
I have learned an abundance of information thus far this summer. I know the things I have learned have prepared me for my next endeavor and that is working for the Somerset Daily American. I have not reached my peak of learning but I hope to gain more knowledge as I work for the newspaper this summer.
I feel confident in my new skills, learning final cut was very high on my list of things to learn in journalism. I feel I’m prepared to take these skills back to my campus and teach my classmates.
Learning how to use Quik, twitpic and yelp will allow me to share what i see with the world through social networks. I’m hoping this will open doors to more media opportunities in the future.
Samantha Norman
06.11.10
A million thoughts pace back and fourth in my mind as what will go on in the newsroom. I picture myself walking in with her ink pen,light bulb and lap top ready to work. A little nervous at first, but because of my diverse demeanor it wouldn’t be long before I would adapt. I want to be the best intern Winchester Sun has ever had and not make any mistakes. I have learned so much about journalism every second of every hour for two weeks at the Diversity institute. When I leave here I plan to make a Journalism bible full of facts and everything I have learned while at the institute. I am extremely confident about the skills that I have learned at the Diversity Institute. The world around us is changing every day. I know that I am the future of Journalism and so I have to be talented in a variety of skills in order to do well in my field. The web is so much of our future and a great way to get news out to people. While in the Diversity Institute I learned how to make sound slides of pictures into news stories and also incorporating voices. e. In addition, I learned how to compile Video in Final Cut in order to tell a Story. I would like to bring both ideas to the news room and also be willing to teach anyone. This program was very meaningful to me and there will not be any skills left behind. I will take everything that I have learned and use it in my field. I had an opportunity to meet so many important people in this program. I also received classes from the best Journalism teachers in the world. There is most definitely a lot of love in the class rooms at the Multimedia Diversity Institute.Thank you so much for the experience!
Amaris Bailey
06.11.10
This summer will be a challenge.
Working at the South Bend Tribune will be a new experience where I will be asked to display skills I have only just learned.
I will be expected to tell stories in new and interesting ways that I am mostly unfamiliar with.
However.
For the past 10 days, I have been ensconced in a new experience - living in a new place, with 11 new people, learning all new things.
I have found incredible instructors who have patiently led me through experience after experience, good and bad.
I have learned a new way to tell stories that incorporates all the many pieces of storytelling I had only ever thought of using separately before.
I have faced the challenges inherent in news reporting - unresponsive subjects, equipment malfunctions, reporter errors, fallen-through stories - and still managed to create substance and tell stories regardless.
What have I left to fear?
Because of my experience at the Diversity Institute, I am confident I can provide not only quality multimedia stories this summer, but also a new perspective that I will try not be hesitant to share.
I will continue to tell stories with words but will get my point across with images; with voices; with wide, medium, tight and something else shots; with more b-roll than I will ever need and from every possible point of view.
This summer will be a challenge.
But thanks to the DI, I think I can handle it.
Lucia Tayo
06.11.10
When I got to Nashville, I figured I has this in the bag, but these two weeks have been a challenge! As I talked to my peers about how my views has changed from this experience, I realize that the newsroom is either going to be smooth sailing from here, or eight more weeks of boot camp, but I can’t call it since I’ve never been in this type of situation. Am I ready for what lies ahead, definitely NOT! However, I am prepared to continue to take on each day’s challenges and make the best out of every situation.
The stuff that I have learned here has made me look at newspaper in another light and any and every opportunity that arise for me to make a sound slide or a one-minute clip is something I am looking forward to. I know I don’t make the best clips, but I have learned enough during critiques to know what to do without supervision, and the more I work, the better I will get.
Brooke Mosely
06.11.10
The biggest challenge I except to face this summer will be my confidence. Sometimes it’s a challenge for me to believe in my abilities as a journalist and in personal endeavors. In the past I have really had a problem with underestimating my abilities as a journalist and I have realized that my work is good and I can be successful. As I have progressed through this program I have found that I have more confidence with each task that I complete and I am satisfied with the results of my work.
My multimedia skills have increased way above what I knew before taking this course. Shooting and editing video can be very tiresome but its important to know how to do in the world of journalism. Multimedia has become a very big aspect of journalism and I am elated that I was given the opportunity to have the skills to incorporate into my reporting this summer.
This summer as a intern at the Winchester Sun, I plan to incorporate multimedia into my daily reporting. I feel multimedia enhances the written word and draws more readers. Through the experience that I have gained here at the Diversity Institute, I feel that I will be an outstanding contributor to the Winchester Sun.
Bianca Warren
06.13.10
I have gained a wealth of knowledge at the Diversity Institute that are not only lessons I will carry into the newsroom, but lessons that I will carry throughout life.
Everything I learned from how to write leads to how to edit videos will make me a great asset to the Danville newspaper. I have a lot of ideas that I want to contribute, and I am never scared of a challenge.
With everything I learned, I want to be able to create stories and show Danville another side of news, something that is innovative and eye-catching.