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Distance learning journalism degree
To my mind journalism and photo journalism in the digital age would be the perfect degree for universities to have put on-line by now. The courses I’m finding, as I search for a distance learning course in something vaguely to do with this business however, are all accounting, law and book-keeping courses. Useful yes but none of them really “float my boat” so to speak.
I know many will argue that a degree has done them no favours and the school of life or hard-knocks or hands-on experience (please enter cliche here) has taught them all they need to know. But in Japan a Batchelors degree goes some way to making the day job I need to feed my kids less time consuming so that I can actually go out and take photos until I can oneday give up the day job and join you good people here with my head held high. Plus my wife would rather like me to have a degree so she can hold her head high too…(it’s a Japan thing).
So my question is; Does anyone know of an affordable online DEGREE course in this passion of ours? Basically one that will be worth the paper it’s written on and for US schools that seems to be about 20 to 30 thousand Dollars!
Better yet does anyone know of a UK university offering one that I may be able to screw some money from the government for?
It’s a blank, open question I know and I expect abuse and advice in equal measure but since moving back to the UK and finding all I’m quite good at is words and pictures, but not having any internationally recognized way to prove that, I have been a bit stuck for a worthwhile career to build my photo career on the back of. So much so that I have decided to move back to Japan where my language can earn me money; earn money doing that and study for what I really want to do in the future.
Any help greatly received.
Damon
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Damon Coulter
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Mon May 26 18:32:16 UTC 2008
(ed. May 27 2008)
Kent,
United Kingdom
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The stupid answer is no.
Because the profession about which you enquire is just about extinct.
Ten more days, maybe. Eleven, with luck. Dozen, if you like round numbers.
From here on, strap on a video cam, mike, and make the whole thing really happy for the vid kids, or starve, you artist.
Stills?
Funny.
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Knew you’d be the first to answer Mr S Photographer. And wise words despite; but those are the things I hope they are teaching nowadays and I want to learn the new. My request was a desperate act because I like olde worlde stills and printed words and know I’ll probably never give up the day job on this format, or any other if I’m honest. But a degree gets a better day job and the freelancing can improve and increase from what I may learn so I’d rather study something I like that may be partly useful. Plus I think you’re wrong, it may be cleaner, less subtle, more posed, more shallow and less skillful than ever before but photography is enjoying a bit of a fashion moment at the moment! Many of the new practioners in the “lifestyle” are consumers also. Some more than others and some less; some with sneering disdain; some with open wallets and little taste. I’d like to think of myself as serious about the art: I buy books to learn not to look cool but many people put monochromes of death and disease in their bookcases or on their wall for thousands of Dollars. There will always be a market for that because video doesn’t quite make the same statement. Those people also buy magazines and papers. Just wait. Damon
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entry-level photographers can no longer just think of themselves as “just” still photographers. Still photographs are part of the content package that includes slide shows with music, recorded audio of the story’s subjects, narrated audio, and eventually, video story telling.
“The photo department is now known as the multimedia department,”
Excerpts from: http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/students/entering_the_job_market/
You can become a commercial/artist photographer or a multimedia journalist, or both. But don’t expect to find photojournalist jobs by the time you graduate. They’ll all be taken by videographers.
Want proof? The top left to bottom right chart of LS postings traffic over the years is a reliable indicator of where photojournalism is headed. Less than three years ago it was hard to keep up with the avalanche of postings. Barely a stupid snowflake flutters down, these days.
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i just love the smell of the moment, when it all come together. wether on a traditional light box or in bridge i see that image and know that something unique is there, not a vid, not graphic or painting, just a moment.
wow!
i have seen some really crap multimedia, such boring sh*t, then again i have seen material that combines stills, vid and sound bites…
wow x2
all is not lost. j
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