Multi-Media Training: Q&A

Tools and Toys:
1. Invest in a wireless mic if at all possible. Check out www.bhphotovideo.com for great deals.
2. Shotgun mics are more affordable (be careful...they are sensitive to hand-handling).
3. Transom.org and International Women in Media organization has great info on mics..also take a look at Storycorps. UC Berkeley has great tutorials online.
4. Digital phone recorders
5. Take a look at www.poynter.org

Want to make multi-media? What are the ESSENTIAL PROGRAMS TO KNOW?
1. Photoshop
2. Flash
3. IMovie or Windows MovieMaker
4. Look at Soundslides (www.soundslides.com)

Multi-Media Training: Live Blogging with Anh Ly

Introduction to Animation and Graphics on the Web with Anh Ly
I. Introduction to Photoshop
a. A program to edit photos
b. Allows you to enhance, resize, crop, etc.
c. Make sure you “Save for Web” which eliminates extraneous information
that might conflict with web content.
d. Adjust levels to change brightness

II. Flash
a. Importing photos from photoshop into FLASH.
b. NOTE: check out soundslides for another option (www.soundslides.com)
c. Important components: stage (where work is created), timeline (where
you want things to happen)
d. Library allows you to see and store the pictures you wish to work
with.
e. You may need to change the stage-size.