KAY

HINDY

Founder and CEO of Brooklyn Brewery

Kay Hindy (co-Founder and Chairman of The Brooklyn Brewery) founded one of America’s top 25 breweries. A former journalist, he became interested in home-brewing while serving as a Beirut-based Middle East Correspondent for The Associated Press. 

6:00pm-8:30pm

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Friday
, 
June
 
17
 at 
9:30am
 
Taste of the Mondays

R. Harrison

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

R. Harrison

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

When

Friday
, 
June
 
17
 
2016
 
9:30am

Where

Friday
, 
June
 
17
 
2016
 
9:30am
 

Virtual reality series

360° Video - Intro to Shooting and Stitching

with marcelle hopkins

and bob sacha

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 This all-day, hands-on workshop teaches the basics of 360° video production and post-production. Participants will practice shooting, stitching and editing 360° video, as well as discuss immersive storytelling techniques, ethics and distribution platforms (detailed schedule below).

 

Specifically designed for journalists and storytellers, this workshop helps newsrooms and freelancers get started in VR journalism.

 

Students will work in small guided teams with 6-GoPro camera rigs and the Kolor stitching software.

 

Course fee: $449. Space is limited, so don't delay!

 

Marcelle Hopkins is a journalist and VR filmmaker specializing in human rights and humanitarian crises. She directed, wrote and co-produced a virtual reality documentary on South Sudan for PBS's series FRONTLINE called On the Brink of Famine, which premiered on Facebook 360 and Oculus in March. Marcelle will be assisted by CUNY's Bob Sacha.

Where is the workshop?

219 W. 40th Street, New York, NY 10018. Right in Times Square!

When is the workshop?

Friday
, 
June
 
17th
 
2016
 
9:30am
 
5:30pm
 


What will we learn?

(Schedule subject to change)

9:30 am

Set up

Download VR apps
Demo VR journalism

10:00am

Immersive storytelling

Why VR?
VR Journalism
Narrative techniques
Interactivity 

10:30am

Equipment

Cameras
Audio
Tripods and accessories
GoPro settings

11:00

am

Shot composition

Camera placement
Camera height
Field of vision
Range of primary subject
Movement
Parallax errors

11:30

am

Shooting exercise


12:30pm

Lunch break


1:30pm

Media management

Transferring
Organizing media
Clip concatenation

2:00pm

Stitching

Syncing
Stitching
Horizon correction
Color correction
Introduction to parallax corrections
Rendering

3:30pm

Editing

Importing stitched files
Editing in Adobe Premiere
Introduction to 360 audio
Exporting

4:30pm

Distribution

Headsets and apps
360 video players
VR resources

5:00pm

Q&A

Workshop ends at 5:30 pm

Speaker Block #3

R. Harrison

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Your workshop leaders

R. Harrison

Marcelle Hopkins

@marcellehopkins

Marcelle Hopkins is a journalist and VR filmmaker specializing in human rights and humanitarian crises. She directed, wrote and co-produced a virtual reality documentary on South Sudan for PBS's series FRONTLINE and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. On the Brink of Famine premiered on Facebook 360 and Oculus in March. In 2015, she received a Magic Grant from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and a Social Justice Media Fellowship from the Made in NY Media Center by IFP. In 2014, Marcelle wrote and produced an interactive documentary on Sri Lanka’s recovery from civil war, which won a UN Foundation Prize and a Horizon Interactive Award. Through seven years at Al Jazeera’s United Nations bureau, she has covered nearly every major international conflict and crisis of the past decade. She holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

R. Harrison

Bob Sacha

@bobsacha

bobsacha.com

Bob Sacha is a director, cinematographer, editor, teacher, photographer and, above all, a collaborator on visual journalism projects. He has shot the video for projects that have won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Emmy for New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming, His first short documentary film, Blindsight about a group of blind photographers, had its world premiere at DocNYC . He’s trained reporters, photographers and regular folks on how to create compelling videos using their iPhone, DSLR or large video cameras.

what else is in the cUNY VR series?

01

Intro to VR

With Dan Archer. $25. More info.

02

360° video - Shooting and Stitching

With Marcelle Hopkins and Bob Sacha. $459. 

03

Virtual Reality with Unity 3D

With Dan Archer. $799. More info.

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