Mobile journalism: How to create quality video and audio on an iPhone and iPad

This one-day course will look at how to use a smartphone to shoot high quality images, audio and video that will enable you to create powerful digital stories.
 
It is being led by Glen Mulcahy, who is innovation lead at Irish broadcaster RTE where he trains journalists in mobile and video journalism and is leading a move which will see select reporters handed iPhone kit bags.
 
Course tutor: Glen Mulcahy
Date: 19 September 2013
Time: 10.00-17.00
Venue: MSN, Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL
Number of places: 20
Cost: £200 (+ £40 VAT)

Refreshments and lunch are provided

You can book this course as a one-day course or as part of news:rewired PLUS. news:rewired is our digital journalism conference and is taking place in London the following day, on 20 September (see the agenda). A news:rewired PLUS ticket, which includes the one-day course and the conference costs, £310 +VAT (you save £20). Select the news:rewired PLUS option when you book. The earlybird rate is £280 +VAT)
 
You may think that you know how to use the phone in your pocket for shooting video and for taking photos, but after this one-day course you will be able to create broadcast-quality video packages that a TV producer would think have been shot on a video camera costing many thousands of pounds.

Your smartphone is "the camera you always have with you" and with some simple tips and techniques you can create incredible content. Its capable of shooting amazing photographs, recording broadcast audio, broadcasting live on radio and TV and shooting and editing incredible video content.
 
Glen will not only give guidance on what apps to use to achieve these goals, but will also explain the accessories that are available and what is worth – and what is not worth – investing in.
 
The course will primarily focus on using an iPhone as the recording device, but there will be general advice on other types of smartphone too.
 
By the end of the day you will:

• Understand some of the basic principles of photography – which will help you to
• Shoot great photographs
• Shoot professional quality video interviews
• Shoot sequences and GVs that will help tell your story with pictures
• Record great audio interviews and clips
• Edit video, with advice for editing on a smartphone, iPad or tablet, or desktop
• Compress and/or transfer large files over the internet
• Set up work flows that work for your news outlet to mean you can get video, images and audio back quickly and efficiently

We advise that you bring a smartphone to this one-day training course.
 

Glen Mulcahy

Glen Mulcahy is innovation lead at Irish Broadcaster RTE. He blogs about mobile journalism on his VJ Technology Blog.

Glen Mulcahy is innovation lead with RTÉ – Ireland's national public service broadcaster. His broadcast career began in 1997 with the fledgling TnaG (later TG4) and later he moved into production resource management with the RTE Irish language news service: Nuacht.

He has trained with the BBC in multi-camera direction and was one of the first graduates of a 'Train the Trainer' programme through a CIRCOM regional / BBC partnership project in BBC Bristol.

He is a certified Apple support professional, an active AVID media composer editor and an enthusiastic cameraman both moving and stills.

A frequent video and mobile journalist trainer, he has been part of the team that deliver an annual European VJ and MoJo course for Circom Regional. Participants are drawn from TV stations all across Europe.

He gave a hugely popular 30-minute workshop to give an overview of mobile journalism at news:rewired on 19 April 2013. You can see a video of the workshop at this link.