"Two Parts:
- Tell me one thing you learned this semester which you feel will benefit you moving forward as a journalist and how/why.
- Tell me one thing you would like to see changed. I have limited ability to change most things about the class but will certainly bring your suggestions to our next meeting."
1.
I think one of the best things I learned this
semester in J2150 was how to further edit my photos and videos. I have previous
knowledge of editing with Final Cut Pro X, however the lessons on Lynda helped
me to expand my knowledge. One example was the color correction features in the
video editing software. I had known some correcting techniques to colorize my
images, however, the Lynda exercises showed me how to correct one specific
color and one specific area in the frame. I had never known you could specify
what color or area you wanted to fix, so I generally would just fix my image as
a whole, hoping the colors would turn out how I wanted them too. Now I can
pinpoint specific aspects of each frame and specific colors and use the
techniques I learned with the online lessons. I also got a better understanding
of the ISO feature on my camera from taking this course. I knew my camera had
the ISO feature, and that I should correct it based on what scene I was
shooting in, but I never really understood what effect ISO had on my photos.
1 2. One thing I would want to see changed in this
course is a more detailed, and further demonstration of each of the tools we
used. The digital camera, the video camera, Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Photoshop,
etc. The way to use these tools correctly was gone over very briefly. I felt as
though some students may have struggled with understanding how to use the
technology because they had never seen or used it before. I understand the
J-School is trying to ‘weed kids out’ to find the best journalists, but this is
the first real journalism course where kids get to use the technology. If they’ve
never had the opportunity to use it, then it is almost unfair that they do not
get a proper demonstration on how it all works. Its almost as if you’re weeding
them out without teaching them how to properly use the tools.
