Training and consulting for multimedia reporting with smartphones and laptops Digital journalism requires reporters with a mobile skill set Reporters need training and the right gear to realize the potential that mobile technologies provide for storytelling. Publishers need solutions tailored for their workflows. We work with your teams to help you quickly learn to create rich media reports that match online and mobile consumer's expectations. http://www.robbmontgomery.com/p/training.html

1. Mobile reporting
Training and consulting for multimedia reporting
with smartphones and laptops

2. Get smart with
the right
approach to
mobile reporting
Your smartphone can do a lot
more than send Tweets, Instagram
photos and status updates
We work with your teams to master using smartphones and connected gear to
produce professional multimedia assets from the field.

3. Mobile-driven reporting
Digital journalism requires reporters with a mobile skill set
Reporters need training and
the right gear to realize the
potential that mobile
technologies provide for
storytelling.
Publishers need solutions
tailored for their
workflows.
We work with your teams
to help you quickly learn to
create rich media reports
that match online and
mobile consumer's
expectations.

4. Unlock your multimedia mind
Hands-on training to master the elements of complex story forms
We train you in
the latest mobile
reporting
technologies and
drill every day on
the fundamental
building blocks
for producing
compelling
multimedia story
packages.

5. A training plan that challenges you
Progressive lectures and labs guide students to build their mobile skills
Smartphone Smartphone Phone + Laptop Laptop Phone + Laptop
Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
CLASSROOM CLASSROOM CLASSROOM CLASSROOM FIELD EXERCISE
Morning •Video reporting •Interviewing •Photo+GPS story, •Data and Team Project:
•Visual sequences •Audio stories •Panoramas, collages visualizations Small groups will plan a
•Natural sound •Telepromptr •and photo stories •Maps story package and make
10:00- •Scripts •Fast images to social •Charts reporting assignments
13:30 •Voice overs media
•Live video streaming Go into the field to
gather original reporting
FIELD EXERCISES FIELD EXERCISES FIELD EXERCISES CLASSROOM CLASSROOM
Afternoon LAB: Log, edit and LAB: Build an LAB: Produce •Surveys/ polls Students return from
assemble a video interview audio a photo + GPS story, •Interactive Images their reporting and edit
sequence package and a new panoramas, photo essay, •Timelines final packages into a
14:30- video sequence and a two video comprehensive package.
16:00 sequences
Presentations
and Final review

6. Mobile multimedia skills
Learn how to use your smartphone to produce high quality multimedia
1. Produce compelling 4. Write and format 8. Build strong photo
video sequences scripts for easy-to- packages for
record voice overs slideshows, collages
2. Set up the camera and social media
and microphones to 5. Learn how to updates
get the best quality produce NPR-stlye
and avoid common audio reports 9. Master camera and
mistakes photo techniques to
6. Use geo-location get most out of
3. Prepare questions to information in your smartphone apps
get answers that cut field reporting
together easily in an 10.Build photo/mapping
audio or video 7. Produce and share story packages
package 360-degree photo and
video panoramas

7. Visual reporting skills
Use free or low-cost Web services to create multimedia reports
1. Quickly produce data- 4. Use advanced editing 7. Build embeddable
driven timeline and collaboration interactive images
stories with text, tools for larger with markers, videos,
images, links and projects photos, links and text
video
5. Choose the best 8. Transform numbers
2. Find sources for chart type for the and spreadsheets into
visuals to add to data you have visualizations that
mapping locations gathered provide impact
3. Move beyond static 6. Build data-driven 9. Build a
text and report with surveys and polls and comprehensive
rich, interactive visualize the results multimedia slideshow
elements using your new skills

8. The new
stuff is
not news
to us
We’ve been providing
multimedia training
and consulting for
media professionals
since 2005

9. Case Study
Your smartphone
is your newsroom
Mobile journalism tools are arriving
to the Android platform and Radio
Free Europe / Radio Liberty is ready
Radio Free Europe is By providing consulting We are taking this
providing reporters in and training, we are knowledge further by
the field with developing deep working with their
smartphone kits that knowledge about the developer to design
allow correspondents to apps, accessories, a custom app
produce and deliver high training, and workflows for their journalists
quality multimedia from that deliver high-quality to deliver live video
just about anywhere in multimedia reportage reports directly to their
the world. from either Android or content management
Apple smartphones. system.

10. Case Study
S.M.A.R.T. ideas
for the mobile
media generation
The IREX S.M.A.R.T. Media Lab in
Tbilisi, Georgia is the world’s first
mobile-centric training and media
production center
Providing journalism We delivered a The control room is on
students a multimedia comprehensive mobile- wheels.
education center lifestyle concept that The walls are mobile.
designed for mobile guided everything from The entire space is a
multimedia news the architecture to the studio environment.
production from the technology decisions. Learn more . . .
very start.

11. Montgomery Montgomery previously Consulting for
Multimedia is led by worked as an editor for multimedia training,
Robb Montgomery, the Chicago Sun-Times mobile-centric
a U.S. journalist based and the Chicago workflows, and media
in Berlin Germany. Tribune. technologies.
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