Tutorials & Documents

Below are tutorials about gear, software, hardware, legal rights and posting stories, as well as various documents you may need. If you have any suggestions for tutorials, please email malo@temple.edu.

Posting:

• WordPress Primer: how to log in, post stories, what to do and not to do

Video:

• How to Shoot/Compose an Interview
• Adobe Premiere: Step by Step Overview 
• Adobe Premiere Pro: Lower Thirds Made Easy
• Default settings for video cameras
• Sony HDR-AX2000: Operating Guide
• Video camera: introduction (different model, same functionality)

• Video camera, adjusting settings:
  – Shutter speed
  – Gain
  – Iris
  – Zebra
  – ND Filter
  – White balance
  – Expanded focus
  – Status check
  – Menu
  – Headphone monitor
• Vimeo: Uploading Your Video and Embedding it Into Your Post
• Vimeo: Changing a Thumbnail

Camera:

• Canon Rebel T5i: Instruction Manual
• Canon Rebel T5i: Beginner’s Tutorial

Legal:

• Laws and Legal Principles of Newsgathering
• Journalist Cans & Cannots

Documents:

• PN: Style Basics
• PN: Style Guide (SHORT)
• PN: Style Guide (FULL)
• PN: Diversity Style Guide
• PN: Workflow
• PN: Story Pitch Outline
• PN: Story Draft
• PN: Child Consent Form
• PN: Helpful Resources (databases)
• PN: Submission Guidelines
• Photography Cheat Sheet: Covering Meetings
• How to Format your External Hard Drive for Mac and PC