Welcome! Introducing the BTS vlog
Added 2022-10-25 20:57:36 +0000 UTCHey Correspondents! Welcome to The Newsroom.
We’re excited to share more of the behind the scenes, including scripts, extended interviews, BTS vlogs, Tom Fox tracks & occasional polls for upcoming video ideas. I hope The Newsroom can be an island outside of my long form videos where we can all connect - with you all getting a closer look at what we do around here, and being able to share your thoughts and ideas as we go. Community involvement has always strengthened my work and I want The Newsroom to be the best version of that yet.
Super stoked about this first BTS vlog – your first look at the wild and wacky world of our studio.
Lots of awesome stuff coming your way so see you soon!
Johnny
Comments
This is so good! Love this content just as much as the actual JH vids in their own way :)
Micheal Evans
2023-02-23 06:13:38 +0000 UTCWas up Johnny love the videos man , glad to be part of the news room!
Swade Vision
2023-01-25 20:59:24 +0000 UTCJust joined and absolutely loved this BTS!! You're an inspiration to all of us budding journalists, Johnny :') can't wait to see all that comes next
Maya Fawaz
2023-01-06 21:02:57 +0000 UTCLove how derpy it is edited. Made me laugh out loud a couple of times :)
Elyse de Waard
2022-12-29 15:02:47 +0000 UTCI’m always super interested in how teams come together and build something new. It’s almost like you guys are a band that has locked themselves into a house until they write their next brilliant album. It’s pretty magical to watch!!! Please keep posting these!
Andy Wakeman
2022-12-23 14:17:08 +0000 UTCI LOVE this video! Makes the newsroom monthly worth it
Ahmed Eid
2022-12-02 17:05:20 +0000 UTCThis is excellent
Jacob Pretorius
2022-11-22 12:21:03 +0000 UTCwe need more of this
Eduardo Araya
2022-11-18 01:23:57 +0000 UTCLove this vid, would love to get to know more people on the team and their roles!
Daniel Anugerah
2022-11-13 04:34:19 +0000 UTCso glad to hear it! we're having a lot of fun making these
Johnny Harris
2022-11-10 00:32:12 +0000 UTCThe most entertaining 30 minutes of the week so far for me. Brilliant. Loved watching it!
Dalton Mabery
2022-11-09 02:57:40 +0000 UTCthank you! we have an editor putting them together, she's great!
Johnny Harris
2022-11-09 00:54:44 +0000 UTCThis is the absolute best perk ever! ❤️ So incredible to be able to have this inside look into the process, team and thinking behind the videos. Also, kudos to whoever is putting these together (Iz?), the style is awesome!
Boris Dimitrov
2022-11-07 07:35:08 +0000 UTCwe do a ton of library of congress, but we recently started buying maps and scanning them ourselves which has been pretty fun (and a lot of work)
Johnny Harris
2022-11-05 20:34:25 +0000 UTCgreat idea, i'll try to make it happen in an upcoming vlog
Johnny Harris
2022-11-05 20:33:49 +0000 UTCthis makes me so happy to read, glad you liked it!
Johnny Harris
2022-11-05 20:33:35 +0000 UTCthis is so nice, I read it to her and she says thank you! and I think december or january !!! it is SO GOOOOOOOOD
Johnny Harris
2022-11-05 20:33:17 +0000 UTCmade sure to read this to her, thank you!
Johnny Harris
2022-11-05 20:32:57 +0000 UTCso glad you enjoyed it - and yes hard, creative, and messy about sums it up!
Johnny Harris
2022-11-05 20:32:27 +0000 UTCso glad to here it! next month is an especially fun one where i'm actually in switzerland!
Johnny Harris
2022-11-05 20:31:55 +0000 UTCWALLS!!!!
Daniel
2022-11-04 20:35:38 +0000 UTCLoved watching this BTS! I would love to know how or where you go for the sound paneling fort he ceiling.
Daniel
2022-11-04 20:34:22 +0000 UTCAbsolutely loved this thank you! These are the main reason I’m here as a patron :)
The Daily BA
2022-11-03 13:26:08 +0000 UTCIf you're interested in diving in more to mapping and more hi-res sources check out youshouldmakemaps.com - there's a ton of info you can explore
Ryan Shields
2022-11-02 22:53:22 +0000 UTCif the issue is the local tiles are still too heavy, you should be able to do the same workflow with mt cloud and use their geolayers plug in to stream it in as a tile service
Ryan Shields
2022-10-28 18:40:34 +0000 UTCThanks. We’ve been experimenting with a program called map tiler which is a local desktop app that allows us to cut up tiles into a local reference directories that we can connect to in geolayers
Johnny Harris
2022-10-28 18:05:43 +0000 UTCThank you!!
Tlaloc Lopez-Watermann
2022-10-28 03:41:50 +0000 UTCThis was so fun to watch, thanks for sharing!
Evan Freeze
2022-10-27 22:48:34 +0000 UTCAre you talking the hi-res scans? I can’t speak for his sources directly but the David Rumsey map collection, the library of Congress, and university archives are great places to start if that’s what you’re looking for
Ryan Shields
2022-10-27 20:43:36 +0000 UTCI wish you could do the 2 hour versions fyi
Tlaloc Lopez-Watermann
2022-10-27 04:26:42 +0000 UTCHey Johnny, where do you get the high resolutions maps? What’s the source for the files.
Tlaloc Lopez-Watermann
2022-10-27 04:11:51 +0000 UTCthis is great, personally i'd like to a see your editor doing a timelime breakdown in premiere pro, showing the organization of the footage etc. keep it up guys!
Jgorch13
2022-10-26 23:29:25 +0000 UTCThis was awesome Johnny and team!! Great job and stoked to see more of this. Also very inspired to create content on pressing matters I care about 🤘
Maxwell Muller
2022-10-26 16:35:01 +0000 UTCLove seeing more Iz content. Missed having her videos to watch! When is the house content coming out?? So glad to be able to support even if I have no idea what’s going on with the maps.
Jay Maas
2022-10-26 12:05:21 +0000 UTCThis was incredible. So great to see Iz after a long time. LOVE the Japanese breakfast. I can't wait to make enough money to afford the 200$ tier :)
Suraj Devaraj
2022-10-26 10:36:43 +0000 UTCi also feel so validated now for just using an Epson high res flatbed and janky leveling for map digitizing so thanks for that
Ryan Shields
2022-10-26 04:19:28 +0000 UTCRegarding large files in AE: I might be missing the mark on this because I’m an AE/geolayers rookie but I know Geolayers works with Mapbox styles and you can embed custom images on Mapbox styles. If the image is georeferenced you can push it through to Mapbox using the Uploads API (not as hard as the documentation makes it look) which will tile it as a map layer and then you could add it to a map style and stream it into geolayers. I assume streaming it like that would be more responsive than local tiles but you could do a sample tile and see how it looks/performs. If it isn’t georeferenced there’s options for that too
Ryan Shields
2022-10-26 03:44:40 +0000 UTCWow — this is one hellva vlog Johnny! Very cool to see the hard work & creative process/messy reality of how these epic videos get put together. Thanks for the effort you put into this 30min BTS!
Paul Carleton
2022-10-26 02:57:11 +0000 UTCsuch a big team, more to come in coming months!
Johnny Harris
2022-10-25 21:33:46 +0000 UTCthank you! we're feeling pretty excited around here to bring you all more into our world
Johnny Harris
2022-10-25 21:33:38 +0000 UTCWow! So cool to see you guys in such an environment!
Alice Ro
2022-10-25 21:25:55 +0000 UTCSuper thrilled for all these updates, Johnny! Thanks for putting so much energy into this space and in general for the work you do. Investigative journalist was totally on the list of potential dream careers when I first started out. Well, who knows what the future brings! Lol. Just watched the vid-- wow, that was intense! So many thoughts and questions! Hi to Iz and the rest of your team! Thanks again! :)
Rachel Uwa
2022-10-25 21:09:50 +0000 UTC
