From Class to Class Report.(29-10-2010)

Its always beneficial to gain and share knowledge with experienced people and that’s exactly what we did in our last class on Friday (29-10-2010).

We had with us Mr. Pawan koundal (production head of media department, I.P. college) and Mr. Sarvesh Dutt Tripathy (Associate Professor, IP University) , both being experts in their respective fields.
In our first class with Mr. Pawan, we learnt some basics of video editing, we were taught how to use windows movie maker.
-It could be used to add phonetic and visual (blur, grayscale, ease in etc.) effects to any video.
-It is also a good software to add or remove any part of the original video.
-It is a very basic software to edit but is simple and is effective in making auto video transitions and give titles and credits to any presentation.
Apart from windows movie maker he also made us familiar with basic terms and usage of camcorder (zoom in and zoom out, setting white balance, tripod stand etc.).
We had a very demonstrative and illustrative class with sir and we hope to learn more from him in coming times.

From camera demonstrations in the first class we shifted to news and related theory in second.

In our second class with Mr. Tripathi, we grasped knowledge about news, format of a newspaper and a detailed version of four W’s and one H.
He very expressively taught us the difference between hard and soft news
-Hard news: A news which goes stale the next day of it’s publishing date. It has to be reported immediately.
-Soft news: News which are exclusive stories of a newspaper and are not common to every source of news.

Moreover he explained the format of a newspaper:
-Flag or nameplate: The name of the newspaper e.g. Hindustan Times.
-Entry point: An index to important news inside the newspaper generally below thw nameplate.
-Print Line: It gives the details of the publisher and contact details.
-Dateline: Traditionally it gave the date and place from which the news is reported but these days it’s only limited to place.
-Cut line or Caption: It is a phrase generally used to explain a photo or caricature.
-Credit line: It gives the name of the source of news when source is an agency.
-By line: It is very similar to a credit line, the only difference is that in case of a byline source of news is not an agency but it is and individual.
We were also explained in detail about the 4 w’s and 1 H required to complete a news feature.

Both the sessions were very informative and instructive and we look forward to learn more from such experienced and learned teachers.

Thank you.