Productivity Tools

When

Wednesday

,

November

16

2016

6:30pm

Where

Incredibly Useful Productivity Tools

TICKETS

DISCOVER, TEST AND COMPARE DIGITAL TOOLS

Improve your productivity and save your sanity!

This popular hands-on workshop will guide you through a curated list of the best free or low-cost apps to organize your workflow, streamline your communications and save you time.

Jeremy Caplan will be your guide through this workshop. He is passionate about putting technology to work for the benefit of journalists and communicators and regularly leads popular workshops onsmart phone apps and useful online tools.

Tickets are $25

Am I eligible for a discount?

Please bring your laptop, tablet or other Internet-connected device.

This all-day, hands-on workshop teaches the basics of 360° video production and post-production. Participants will practice shooting, stitching and editing 360° video, as well as discuss immersive storytelling techniques, ethics and distribution platforms (detailed schedule below).

Specifically designed for journalists and storytellers, this workshop helps newsrooms and freelancers get started in VR journalism.

Students will work in small guided teams with 6-GoPro camera rigs and the Kolor stitching software.

Course fee: $449. Space is limited, so don't delay! Are you eligibe for a discount?

Marcelle Hopkins is a journalist and VR filmmaker specializing in human rights and humanitarian crises. She directed, wrote and co-produced a virtual reality documentary on South Sudan for PBS's series FRONTLINE called On the Brink of Famine, which premiered on Facebook 360 and Oculus in March. Marcelle will be assisted by CUNY's Bob Sacha.

Where is the workshop?

When is the workshop?

Wednesday

,

November

16th

2016

6:30pm

8:30pm

This popular hands-on workshop will guide you through a curated list of the best free or low-cost apps to organize your workflow, streamline your communications and save you time.

Jeremy Caplan will be your guide through this workshop. He is passionate about putting technology to work for the benefit of journalists and communicators and regularly leads popular workshops onsmart phone apps and useful online tools.

Tickets are $25

Am I eligible for a discount?

Please bring your laptop, tablet or other Internet-connected device.

What will we learn?

(Schedule subject to change)

9:30 am

Set up

Download VR apps
Demo VR journalism

10:00am

Immersive storytelling

Why VR?
VR Journalism
Narrative techniques
Interactivity

10:30am

Equipment

Cameras
Audio
Tripods and accessories
GoPro settings

11:00

am

Shot composition

Camera placement
Camera height
Field of vision
Range of primary subject
Movement
Parallax errors

11:30

am

Shooting exercise

12:30pm

Lunch break

1:30pm

Media management

Transferring
Organizing media
Clip concatenation

2:00pm

Stitching

Syncing
Stitching
Horizon correction
Color correction
Introduction to parallax corrections
Rendering

3:30pm

Editing

Importing stitched files
Editing in Adobe Premiere
Introduction to 360 audio
Exporting

4:30pm

Distribution

Headsets and apps
360 video players
VR resources

5:00pm

Q&A

Workshop ends at 5:30 pm

Speaker Block #3

Meet Jeremy

@jeremycaplan

www.jeremycaplan.com

Jeremy is the director of education for the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY J School. A teacher, a learner, a journalist and a digital explorer, Jeremy has been at the forefront of digital trends and technological tools for journalists. He has writen for TIME Magazine on business, technology and cultural trends. Jeremy is devoted to sharing tips, tools and techniques for making the most effective and efficient use of digital tools to make life more enjoyable.

what else is in the cUNY VR series?

01

Intro to VR

With Dan Archer. $25. More info.

02

360° video - Shooting and Stitching

With Marcelle Hopkins and Bob Sacha. $459.

03

Virtual Reality with Unity 3D

With Dan Archer. $799. More info.

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