Archive for October, 2007
Copyright and fair use
by S_Delagrange on October 30th, 2007
As you begin to think about your multimedia campaign videos, you will undoubtedly be planning which images - photos, videos, drawings, charts, etc. - you hope to use. One thing that determines whether you can use an image is who “owns” it, who has the rights to its distribution and viewing. Sometimes owners are willing to let you use their work for free as long as you give them credit. But other copyright owners strictly control their media.
To complicate the issue, as students and teachers, we are allowed to use some things under the rubric of “Fair Use,” but it’s not an easy concept to interpret and apply. The following links (to information at the University of Texas at Austin) contain thorough discussions of both copyright and fair use. Please look over the Fair Use section for class on Thursday.
Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials (part of the larger course)
On editing audio…
by S_Delagrange on October 30th, 2007
John Solomon, co-anchor of the NPR program On the Media, described his surprise in learning that interviews that ended up on NPR were edited. Listen and learn a bit about the process.
Embedding and linking to video on YouTube
by S_Delagrange on October 18th, 2007
This multimedia video by anthropologist Micheal Wresch explores the connections between students’ real and virtual lives.
A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wresch
Here’s a link to an alternative view of Web 2.0 life by a student of Wesch’s titled “Are We Producing Reality?”
Importing images test
by S_Delagrange on October 18th, 2007
This is the flag of Macedonia that created a controversy in 1995. To help normalize relations with Greece, the Macedonian parliament changed the design of their flag in 1995 to the one below.
Audio Shortdocs
by S_Delagrange on October 16th, 2007
Got an e-mail from a friend today about “short audio.” Seems WBEZ in Chicago sponsors an audio storytelling contest called Third Coast International Audio Festival. In 2006, the topic was “99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story” and this year it was “Dollar Storeys,” in which each story began with a purchase at a Dollar Store. Listen to some of these, and start thinking about ways to turn your OpEd audio piece into a work of “creative non-fiction” with more or different audio, sound effects, music….and images and/or video.
(Just a hint of things to come with our final project…)