Tony Gonzalez, enterprise reporter at Nashville Public Radio, encourages journalists to have a mobile-newsgathering mindset in this presentation for NewsTrain in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2016. Objectives include: --Shoot a well-composed, well-lit photo that captures a moment and tells a story. --Capture high-quality audio. --Add text to photos to create on-the-go images with maximum impact for social platforms. It is accompanied by a handout: "Mobile-Newsgathering Checklist." NewsTrain is a training initiative of Associated Press Media Editors. More info: http://bit.ly/NewsTrain

1. Better Mobile Newsgathering

2. Tony Gonzalez
Nashville Public Radio

3. Mobile ambitions
http://bit.ly/whatisiphonereporting

4. A slimmer “mojo”

5. The Mobile-Mindset Checklist

6. #BlackLivesMatterNashville

7. #BlackLivesMatterNashville

8. #BlackLivesMatterNashville

9. #BlackLivesMatterNashville

10. #BlackLivesMatterNashville

11. #BlackLivesMatterNashville

12. #BlackLivesMatterNashville

13. Objectives: Today’s workshop
 GOAL: Shoot a well-composed, well-lit photo that
captures a moment and tells a story.
 GOAL: Capture high-quality audio.
 GOAL: Add text to photos to create on-the-go
images with maximum impact for social media.

14. Pro Tip #1: App Placement

15. Pro Tip #1: App Placement

16. Basics of Photography

17. Phone-Photography Champions
Source: ippawards.com

18. Phone-Photography Champions
Source: ippawards.com

19. Phone-Photography Champions
Source: ippawards.com

20. Pro Tip #2: Photos From Lockscreen

21. Pro Tip #2: Photos From Lockscreen

22. Pro Tip #2: Photos From Lockscreen

23. Pro Tip #3: Volume button snaps photos

24. Pro Tip #3: Volume button snaps photos

25. Find stability
Unigrip Pro GorillaPod
 Other options:
iStabilizer; Joby GripTight

26. More about gear
 Gear 101: bit.ly/vjtoolkit
(Kathy Kieliszewski, visuals director, Detroit Free Press)

27. Rule of Thirds
Source: Kathy Kieliszewski

30. Framing
Source: Kathy Kieliszewski

31. Negative Space
Source: Kathy Kieliszewski

32. Zoom with your feet
Source: ippawards.com

33. Get the detail
Source: Kathy Kieliszewski

34. Assignment: Photo Hunt
You’ve got 10 minutes to come back with 3 photos.
They should demonstrate:
 The Rule of Thirds
 Informative framing or negative space
 Captured details
Share your best with #MTSUnewstrain.

35. Assignment: Photo Hunt

36. Audio capture

37. Audio capture
We can do this with a smartphone.

38. Choose the setting
 Position subject to reduce background noise / wind.
 Avoid hums, buzzes and refrigerators.

39.  With sources, record full introductions
(and, separately, pronunciations and
spellings).
Get full intros from sources

40. Get closer — 3 inches, if possible

41.  Record all parts of a machine, a vehicle, a
band, etc.
Record every little thing

42. Audio gear

43. Audio gear

44. Audio gear
 Gear tips via Martin Shakeshaft:
martinshakeshaft.com/blog/?p=402
martinshakeshaft.com/blog/?p=744

45. App: Call Recorder / Tape A Call

46. App: iTalk

47. App: Voice Memo

48. Assignment: Interview Audio
 Partner up and record:
• Ask your source for an introduction.
• Ask a question or two.
 Stop. “Done.” Title. Save.
 Edit a sound bite. “Save as new.”

49. Apps: Voice Memo

50. Apps: Voice Memo

51. Apps: Voice Memo

52. Apps: Voice Memo

53. Apps: Voice Memo

54. Photos + Text

55. App: Quick

56. App: Quick
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57. App: Quick
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58. App: Quick
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59. App: Quick
1 2 3 4

60. App: Quick
1 2 3 4

61. App: Spark Post

62. App: Spark Post

63. App: Spark Post

64. App: Spark Post

65. App: Spark Post

66. App: Spark Post

67. App: Spark Post

68. App: Spark Post

69. App: Spark Post

70. App: Spark Post

71. Review: Today’s workshop
 GOAL: Shoot a well-composed, well-lit photo that
captures a moment and tells a story.
 GOAL: Capture high-quality audio.
 GOAL: Add text to photos to create on-the-go
images with maximum impact for social platforms.

72. Tony Gonzalez
Twitter: @tgonzalez
Instagram: @gonzalezreports
Email: tgonzalez@wpln.org