A reflective video about multimedia production by Odong Richard.

This is a reflective video about multimedia production , a practical course unit by Odong Richard , a final year student of Bachelor of Journalism and Communication (BJCO) at Makerere University.

My name is Odong Richard, a final year student doing Bachelors of Journalism and Communication (BJCO), I majored in Communication in my final year.My name is Odong Richard, a final year student doing Bachelors of Journalism and Communication (BJCO), I majored inCommunication in my final year.

This is a reflective video about Multimedia production, one of our core course units in our final Year final semester handled by three lecturers, Dr John Baptist Imokola, Dr. Marion Alina and Dr. Sarah Namusoga and Class was divided into groups due to the practical nature of the course unit and days of lectures were splitted all over the week.

The first lecture was handled by Dr. Sarah and it was an introductory class whereby Multimedia, what’s it all about?

Keywords • Multi- more than one • Media- are channels of communication

• Multimedia is the use of more than one channel/medium of communication

Text • Audio • Video • Photos • Graphics • Interactives

MEDIA ELEMENTS VS PLATFORMS Radio, Tv, Internet

Listen to the full reflective audio about multimedia production using the link below:

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Multimedia story telling -virtual

What is a multimedia story? ● What isn’t a multimedia story?

● Types of multimedia stories-reporter driven vs editor/producer driven stories

● The web and multimedia storytelling

● Choosing a story

● Storyboarding

● Multimedia storytelling equipment

● Editing ● Assembling your story ● Wrapping up

Artificial Intelligence-virtual

Generation of pictures, videos and articles using prompting

Credit the work generated by the Ai so that it doesn’t go against the law

Google maps

Plotting maps, adding places, images, videos and description of places

Embedding the maps on a website like WordPress and blogger

Telling a story using a google map, plotting add description to it.

Working with audio for multimedia, Audio production

Conducting interviews

Editing audio using Adobe audition, noise removal, multitrack session

Working with video, Mobile Video production

Shooting a video, ratio, landscape vs portrait

Editing videos using apps like Kine master and Capcut.

Portraits vs landscape

Working with still pictures

Photography shadows,

Taking good quality photos with elements i.e. line, shape, form, texture, colour, size and depth

Website, Working with WordPress and Blogger

Designing a good website and attracts many audiences, header, sub header, footer and social media links.

how can we monetize our websites and gain from it

elements of mulmedia in story writings like hyperlinks, images, audio, video

Social media publishing

importance of tags, why it's important to use, when is it used ie events, trending topics, crisis

schedule posts, communities, list on X formerly Twitter

archive, were what we post can be got from the internet

what resonated for you throughout this course

links, hashtags, use of hyperlinks, proper choice of colour in our work

what did you find difficult to understand?

Hyperlinks

Designing my blog-reader, sub=header and footer and YouTube helped me out

How would you apply multimedia in journalism and communication?

Reach larger audience by presenting and combining elements like text, graphic, audios, videos with links so that they can navigate

Has the course changed your view on journalism and communication?

What could have been done differently

Progressive assignments should be done and marked before end of semester exams

Interchange of lecturers, if there are 1 weeks, each lecturer can teach for 3 weeks consistently without handing over to another, remaining weeks can be used for bringing people with experience, this would reduce confusions from both joined classes.

Thank you for watching this reflective video, hope you enjoyed it and learnt some of the topics and lessons l gained that will help me in the journalism and communication field, Good bye.It was a nice time studying the practical course unit in my final year and final semester.

We give thanks to God who guided us during our studies from Year 1 to Year 4 (2020-2024).

Special Thanks to my lecturers:

1-Dr. Sarah Namusoga

2-Dr. John Baptist Imokola

3-Dr. Marion Alina

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