UPDATES

CSA ELECTIONS 2012: Nominations are open

Hello all,

             I would like to officially announce that nominations are open for the CSA 2012 elections.

We’re doing things a bit different this year. Nominations and voting will be done online. So if you would like to nominate yourself please click on the link below and fill out the application. If you would like to nominate a buddy please forward them the link as well. It would be great if you could inform me of any people that you would like to nominate. Just so I can look out for their application.

Please note that you must be a Ryerson student in order to run for election.

Here’s the link: http://bit.ly/wdRge6

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The application will take some time, so please give yourself enough of a head start to think and pray through your candidacy. In other words don’t procrastinate. Nominations close Wednesday March 14th, 2012 at 11.59 P.M.

 Once your application has been submitted, you will receive an email informing you that your application has been accepted. 

If you have any questions about the election process or if you’re not sure if you should even run. Please don’t hesitate to contact me at this email address or through my cell 647 996-0024.

Good Luck!

David Thurton                                                                                                                                                   Chief Returning Officer, 2012                                                                                                                             Ryerson Catholics                                                                                                                                             “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” SERENITY PRAYER

Two doses of Gould Street coming up

Meant to post this ages ago. Yes more self-promotion!

My buddy Calvin To and I are at it again. This time were taking the same story, using the same shots but telling it in two different ways.

The first video is the standard style of video journalism, with the reporter, the streeters and lots of b-roll. And this works perfectly for our RUtv newscast.

The second video is just raw streeters but with lots of….shall we say post-production value. Calvin & I were both experimenting with a screen division editing effect. Can’t say that I’m in love with it.

I could see a video like this running on a newspaper’s website to add some context and dimension to a text based story.

Good morning :)

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Love After Love by Derek Walcott

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

What I am reading

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Working on an long-form interview for RUtv News… Look out!

And here’s a screen shot of the bumper for the piece that will be airing (fingers-crossed) next week. Calvin To and I worked on this all this on Fri.

Shooting at Toronto City Hall with Calvin To

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Q & A with Chantal Hébert

Wednesday night I was at Massey College for a Q & A with newspaper and TV columnist Chantal Hébert. Here are some of her more interesting thoughts in tweets.

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War reporters

Amazing feature Wednesday night on the National about its war correspondents. Worth a watch.

UPDATE: For more on the topic of foreign correspondents & covering war check out this CBC doc HERE. (View in Firefox, other browsers don’t seem to work on CBC Digital Archives.)

Ann Medina, former CBC News foreign correspondent. (Screen shot)

You get get a deeper glimpse into the life big correspondents, including Neil McDonald, Peter Kent and Ann Medina.

New microphone…

Got a new microphone. It’s a Røde Videomic for my Canon Vixia. My dog Louis was gracious enough to let me try it out on him.