In search of “The Lemonade Kid”

I received an email from Texas State journalism student Lesley Ornelas today with an odd request:
 
Hello,
My name is Lesley Ornelas and I am currently a journalism student at Texas State University in San Marcos,TX.
John Goheen recently spoke to one of my journalism classes  and asked that we help him find the boy in his Lemonade [...]

A better Final Cut lower thirds title generator

 Final Cut Pro and Express users have long been frustrated with Apple’s lower thirds title generator for it lack of features. Many of the problems have been fixed in this free Final Cut plug-in by Alex Gollner.  It provides more typeface, position and design options for adding text to productions. Simply download it and drop it [...]

Two approaches to daily newspaper video

 
The great thing about shooting video for newspapers is that you don’t have to fit the storytelling in a confined format like TV news does. The last two videos I have produced for Spokesman.com were done with totally different  storytelling approaches. The first video I did was on a local day spa that hosted a [...]

The Digital Journalist dedicates issue to video journalism

This month’s issue of The Digital Journalist is dedicated to newspaper video journalism. Publisher Dirck Halstead called me a month ago and asked me to write a story about how I transitioned from being a still photographer to becoming a multimedia producer at my newspaper. Writing about my journey, I’ve found, has been mildly [...]