{"id":51,"date":"2002-09-28T21:49:24","date_gmt":"2002-09-29T05:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/?p=51"},"modified":"2002-09-28T21:49:24","modified_gmt":"2002-09-29T05:49:24","slug":"thinking-visually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/2002\/09\/28\/thinking-visually\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Visually"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 24px;font-size: 16px\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Convener<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 Andrea Nemitz<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Participants<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Christofferson<\/li>\n<li>Adam Gorlick<\/li>\n<li>Rick Spratling<\/li>\n<li>Greg Rec<\/li>\n<li>Jack Coleman<\/li>\n<li>Judy Kessler<\/li>\n<li>Dave Offer<\/li>\n<li>Geoff Gevalt<\/li>\n<li>Ed Bell<\/li>\n<li>Mike Connelly<\/li>\n<li>Glenn Jordan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Discussion<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Geoff: \u00a0Burlington had a great experience with visual journalists leading the way on some of their 911 coverage. \u00a0One idea was a cover page with the Trade Center buildings burning and names of all the victims printed over the images. The other idea began with photos of people affected by 911 and their stories in their own words.\u00a0 The paper got a great response and he said the result was a bigger voice in the newsroom for visual journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Dave: \u00a0Is convinced that the model of reporters\/photographers together at interviews doesn&#8217;t always work. \u00a0(Not always catching subject doing his\/her real work, etc., at that time.) \u00a0But seems that photographer setting his\/her own sked is impractical. What to do?<\/p>\n<p>Greg (a photographer): \u00a0He tries to go at the beginning or end of the interview, and to be flexible on when the assignment is shot. \u00a0He also urges that editors be flexible, if the story isn&#8217;t breaking news, and hold the story for better visuals.<\/p>\n<p>Greg: \u00a0On reporters thinking visually&#8230; he tries to cultivate relationships with visually minded photographers. \u00a0He also tries to educate others to be more visual, and preaches photo ethics, what he&#8217;s looking for in photos.<\/p>\n<p>Ed: \u00a0Problem is at some meetings the only one at the meeting thinking visually is the photo editor.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea: \u00a0Important for photo editors to educate others at the meetings about why photos &#8220;work.&#8221;\u00a0 Speak to &#8220;word people&#8221; in their own language, or explain to them why certain parts of a photo are important &#8211; body language, lighting, news value, emotion, etc. \u00a0Put it into words, don&#8217;t just say it&#8217;s a &#8220;great&#8221; photo.<\/p>\n<p>Jack: \u00a0Sometimes it helps if a reporter can take photos. \u00a0He cited a case where an old woman in a wheelchair, breathing through tubes, was at a meeting facing kids in school uniforms who were lobbying for her land to become part of a school athletic facility. No photographer was there, but a reporter could have tried to make a photo.<\/p>\n<p>Rick: \u00a0Found he succeeded most when he wrote prose that didn&#8217;t need to be illustrated. \u00a0Thinking visually leads to a &#8220;tapestry,&#8221; he says. He mentioned a story he reported in Florida when he was riding with a sheriff after (I think) a flood. \u00a0He described the &#8220;thump&#8221; of the truck running over snakes &#8211; great &#8220;visual&#8221; reporting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Greg: \u00a0Send editors to a visual conference to help them think more visually. We live in a visual world. It&#8217;s the job of the photographer to make his\/her photos storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff: \u00a0Thinks holding a story causes us to lose a sense of urgency. He thinks this is a sign that the system isn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea and Dave: \u00a0Wonder if we&#8217;ve gotten to the heart of the story if the action hasn&#8217;t happened yet. \u00a0Should we create drafts of stories more often and pass them on to photographers?<\/p>\n<p>Geoff: \u00a0Is thinking of abolishing photo slips so people will talk more.<\/p>\n<p>Greg: \u00a0Some people will never think visually. Communication is the key.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: \u00a0Thinks we should spend more time going over tearsheets to see what worked, what didn&#8217;t and why. \u00a0Use our work to educate people.<\/p>\n<p>Also discussed, briefly, when to use a graphic. (Good sign is when people in news meetings start asking questions&#8230;) Mike uses graphics to help unload stats, etc., from stories. Especially good to train young reporters on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convener:\u00a0 Andrea Nemitz Participants John Christofferson Adam Gorlick Rick Spratling Greg Rec Jack Coleman Judy Kessler Dave Offer Geoff Gevalt Ed Bell Mike Connelly Glenn Jordan Discussion Geoff: \u00a0Burlington had a great experience with visual journalists leading the way on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/2002\/09\/28\/thinking-visually\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}