care of media martin hatchuel 2012
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How to prepare media releases, images, presentations, and media packs for minimal damage to the poor hacks who receive them. Which might help when it comes to choosing to use themTRANSCRIPT
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Basic principles
In the care and feeding of the media
Martin Hatchuel
www.barefootclients.co.za
June 12
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We suck at collaboration - Ron Mader
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Menu
Hors d'oeuvre
The journalist’s dilemma
Entrées
Media releasesMedia releases
Images
PowerPoint presentations
Desserts
Media CDs & memory sticks
Bornuppa Tree!
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Deadlines!Deadlines!Deadlines!Deadlines!
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The staple diet of the greater spotted media mogul
ContactsContactsStoriesImages & videos
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Home Economics 101
Cooking the perfectCooking the perfectmedia release
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“You’re not actually writing the headline.
You’re finding out what your story is really about”
- Tom Whitwell, assistant online editor, The Times
www.slideshare.net/TomWhitwell/how-to-write-awesome-headlines-presentation
Start with your headline
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Gimme the whole story
About headlines
Gimme the whole story
Sucks if you try to be clever
Sucks if you try to be funny (punny, too)
Sucks if you over simplify or patronise
“The difference between a good headline and a weak headline isn’t 5% or 10%,
it’s 10x, 20x or more” - Tom Whitwell
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Six words - max!
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Learn from fiction
5 essential elements of a story
Characters (who)
Setting (where)
Plot: the action from start to finish
Conflict (what)
Resolution (how)
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Learn from fiction:
7 basic plotlines
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1. The QuestCentral character: distant goalCentral character: distant goal
Harry Potter
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Lord of the Rings
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2. Voyage and ReturnCentral character: learning new thingsCentral character: learning new things
Alice in Wonderland
The Wizard of Oz
...Calvin and Hobbes?
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3. RebirthCentral character: imprisoned by forces withinCentral character: imprisoned by forces within
A Christmas Carol
Beauty and the Beast
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4. ComedyAristotle: comedy shows people to be worse than they areAristotle: comedy shows people to be worse than they are
When Harry Met Sally
All’s Well That Ends Well
The Mexican
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5. TragedyAristotle: tragedy shows people to be greater than they areAristotle: tragedy shows people to be greater than they are
Hamlet
Macbeth
Bad Education
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6. Overcoming the monsterEvil creatures/people/thingsEvil creatures/people/things
The Silence of the Lambs
Dracula
Hansel and Gretel
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7. Rags to RichesFrom zero to hero: and often back againFrom zero to hero: and often back again
Aladdin and the Genie of the Magic Lamp
Cinderella
Great Expectations
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Media releases:Media releases:The five basic food groups
Logical order
Verifiable quotes
Verifiable facts
Spellink & Gramma
Links (real world & online)
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Stories: the golden rule
“Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
- Every teacher who ever lived
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By Me: great TwitteratureBy Me: great Twitteraturein 140 characters, 29 words, 1 paragraph
She came to my room. She was pretty as a
summer sunrise. We argued about the
state of the place. She left and I’m sad. Ooh
look! She’s back!
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Media releases:The dry ingredientsThe dry ingredients
Date & embargo
Image information (who’s who?)
Word count
Who ordered it
Who wrote it
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Date (no embargo here)
Image information
Story
Contacts
Word Count
Who ordered it
Who wrote it
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Media releases: serving suggestionssuggestions
.txt
.pdf (*Burp*!)
Microsoft Word (Comme ci, comme ça)
Open Office (*Puke!*)
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Media releases:Forbidden foodsForbidden foods
Never, ever, ever embed images
in .pdf or Word files.
No! Not ever!
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“Every picture tells a story”
- Every photographer or artist who ever lived
Images
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Feeding images toPrint publicationsPrint publications
.jpg format
300 dpi
250 mm wide or high (give or take)
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Feeding images to Online publicationsOnline publications
.jpg format
72 dpi
Standard 1024 x 769 pixels or 800 x 600 pixels
Useful toy: Photo Gadget Picture Resize
www.xemico.com/photogadget/freeware.html
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The staple diet of the Picture editorPicture editor
Composition – Unclutter! Zoom in!
Exposure – Not too dark, not too light
Lighting – Side lighting is nca! (Trash the flash)
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Does your picture tell your story?
Google: ‘Free online lessons digital photography’
29,700,000 results
Useful presentation: It’s not the size of your camera
www.slideshare.net/n8vision/its-not-the-size-of-your-
camera-digital-photography-in-3-parts
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Images: Forbidden foods
Date stamps
Instagram effects
Photoshop ‘roid junkies
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PowerPoint Presentations: PowerPoint Presentations: Dietary basics
Bullet points, not paragraphs (Less is more)
Remember the golden story rule!
Spellink & Gramma
Print to .pdf
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Media CDs & memory sticks:Media CDs & memory sticks:Dietary basics
Media releases
Biographies
Feature articles
Facts sheets
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Media CDs and memory sticks:Dietary basics
Documents
.pdf AND text or MS Word formats
Images
.jpg, 300 dpi, 250 mm wide – or wider
Text information about each image
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Media CDs and memory sticks:Dietary basics
Videos
AVI
Presentations
.pdf only!
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Media CDs and memory sticks:Dietary basics
Achtung! Verboten!
Password protection
Images embedded in .pdf or Word docs
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A pantry full of learning
BBC – Online learning, support & advice
www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/media_studies.shtml
Free online courses
Harvard Extension School
www.extension.harvard.edu/courses
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Open CoursewareMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Courseware
www.ocw.mit.edu/courses/
Ron Mader’s Planeta Wiki (Ron certainly doesn’t suck at collaboration)
www.planeta.wikispaces.com/media
Martin Hatchuel:
Managing Perceptions: The Care and Feeding of the Media
www.slideshare.net/MartinHatchuel1/managing-perceptions-the-care-
and-feeding-of-the-media
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Baie dankie! Ndiyabulela kakhulu! Thank you so much!- Every poor hack who ever received a media release, image, or media pack
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Martin [email protected]
www.barefootclients.co.za
www.thistourismweek.co.za
www.twitter.com/@martinhatchuelwww.twitter.com/@martinhatchuel
Attributions: ImagesSushi
www.flickr.com/photos/thinkdraw/
La Tomatina
www.flickr.com/photos/flydime/
All other images are in the
public domain and were
found on
www.commons.wikimedia.org