Tuesday, February 23, 2010

IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)

http://iamcr.org/


Announcement for the upcoming conference in July.


Preparations continue for IAMCR's 2010 Conference to be held in Braga, Portugal, from 18-22 July 2010.

The deadline for submitting abstracts has passed. Two thousand abstracts were submitted and the review process is now taking place. Announcement of acceptances will be made on March 15 and full papers are due on April 30.

Registration is now open on the conference website. Please note, there are three registration phases. Register before 30 April to qualify for a €150 discount or before 25 June to qualify for a discount of €50.

If you are a facebook user and will be attending the conference, you might want to join the conference page.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Alexander Haig - a former secretary of state

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/politics/21haig.html?hp

Alexander M. Haig Jr. Dies at 85, Commanding White House Aide

Henry A. Kissinger, his mentor and master in the Nixon White House, also said the nation owed Mr. Haig its gratitude for steering the ship of state through dangerous waters in the final days of the Nixon era. “By sheer willpower, dedication and self-discipline, he held the government together,” Mr. Kissinger wrote in the memoir “Years of Upheaval.”

“There were three others ahead of Mr. Haig in the constitutional succession.”

Serving the Nixon White House from 1969 to 1974, Mr. Haig went from colonel to four-star general without holding a major battlefield command, an extraordinary rise with few if any precedents in American military history.

Mr. Haig never lost his will. But he frequently lost his composure as Mr. Reagan’s secretary of state. As a consequence, he lost both his job and his standing in the American government.

Mr. Nixon had privately suggested to the Reagan transition team that Mr. Haig would make a great secretary of state. Upon his appointment, Mr. Haig declared himself “the vicar of foreign policy” — in the Roman Catholic Church, to which he belonged, the pope is the “vicar of Christ” — but he soon became an apostate in the new administration.

He alienated his affable commander in chief and the vice president George H. W. Bush, whose national security aide, Donald P. Gregg, described Mr. Haig as “a cobra among garter snakes.”

Mr. Haig served for 17 months before Mr. Reagan dismissed him with a one-page letter on June 24, 1982.

Those months were marked by a largely covert paramilitary campaign against Central American leftists, a heightening of nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union, and dismay among American allies about the lurching course of American foreign policy.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Advanced TV News Feb. 19, 2010

popping sound

You can always scale back

How to become a TV news reporter


The Television Storyteller: A Guide for TV Journalists
Regular Price: $25.95

http://www.johnmcquiston.com/dvd.html
A Reporter's Guide to the Art of Television Storytelling

Monday, February 15, 2010

Possible Programs

Radio
Talk of Hope - Daily magazine show
This Week at Holland - Weekly news magazine
Interview - Audio cast of "Interview," a TV program.

TV
Interview - talk with guest speakers and other people of certain interesting subjects



History of Journalism
Theory of Broadcasting
New Media and Society

Holland MI

www.westottawa.k12.mi.us
www.zps.org
www.hollandpublicschools.org
www.schoolmatters.com
http://www.hellowestmichigan.com/
www.hollandbythelake.com
http://www.blackriverpublicschool.org/
http://www.waukazoo.esmartkid.com/
http://www.stfrancisholland.org

Friday, February 12, 2010

Camera Audio - Bob and Angela Feb 12

http://www.lynda.com/ annual subscription $375

Multi Box (Full Feed) - getting sound from console

I am in focus
Then I look like a smear

Auto iris, focus, and audio are always undependable
Many times you get sounds that are very bushily

On board mic
On camera mic

rustling sound
people are shifting around

A microphone doesn't have a brain

lavalier mic
Shotgun mic - when you're far away from the subject but still getting sound

You have to have always carry a set of headphones and white clothes for white balance

16 bit - 2 channel audio FCP expects
12 bit - allows you four simultaneous channel, less fidelity

Put it in record mode and record your voice

I would punch the guy in the face - Bob referring to a guy in the video

Tool - Voice Over
It will start giving me 5 second outcues like beep beep beep
It does not run over because you have set in and out


You have to create another folder for your different project

microphone pick-up patterns

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Russians Rally Around a Falling Enclave

New York Times Article

Mr. Luzhkov, who in his 18 years as mayor has not been given to tolerating affronts to his authority, has stood firm. In an interview published Thursday in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, he called the residents “impostors” squatting on land that he said was zoned to be a park. “These cottages are located in a protected environmental zone,” he said. “The city has been saying for years that construction in this area was forbidden.”