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June 22, 2009 by MattFordMedia

Top 10 Takeaways – Multimedia Immersion ’09

It’s been roughly a week since I returned from the NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a week of intense multimedia training from smart leaders in online journalism from around the country. I didn’t post nearly as much as I wanted to while in Vegas due to a combined lack of [...]

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June 8, 2009 by MattFordMedia

Multimeida Immersion 2009 – Day 3

Multimedia Immersion 2009 is well under way as we enter into day 3. The students have learned a lot about storytelling methods and techniques for shooting video. Today gets a little intense as we introduce most people to Final Cut Pro for the first time. Of the roughly 50 students, most paid their own way [...]

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June 5, 2009 by MattFordMedia

Vegas Baby!

I’m off to Vegas today for a week of non-stop multimedia fun at the NPPA conference in Las Vegas. I am one of 25 coaches for a Multimedia Immersion workshop. The other coaches are some of the top multimedia minds in the country. Vegas hasn’t seen this much talent in one room since the Rat [...]

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June 4, 2009 by MattFordMedia

Freep has fun in Pittsburgh

Tonight is game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals series between the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins and some of the video guys from the Detroit Free Press have put together a couple of fun videos during their visit to the ‘Burgh. Speaking Pittsburghese – Free Press reporter Ben Schmitt learns the language [...]

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June 3, 2009 by MattFordMedia

Film School 101

Doing a presentation on visual storytelling for our weekly staff meeting, and I thought I would post some links that correspond to some of the basic topics I am covering. For starters, lets talk about the very core of storytelling, montage theory. That’s right, welcome to film school 101. Russian film director and theorist Sergei [...]

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June 2, 2009 by MattFordMedia

AP launches database of Guantanamo Bay detainees.

The Associated Press has officially launched its database of Guantanamo Bay detainees today. The flash interactive features a sortable database, an estimated timeline of Gitmo populations, chart based on country of origin, and information pages for most of the detainees.

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June 2, 2009 by MattFordMedia

Globe and Mail – A deadline approach to GM

the Globe and Mail takes an interesting approach to the GM story here. A couple of text slides go by without enough time to read, but its an interesting backgrounder on a story, without a lot of time to turn it around.

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June 1, 2009 by MattFordMedia

A weeks worth of video links.

I was out of pocket most of last week learning how to survive in hazardous environments from the fine blokes at Centurion. It was a great week, but I was deprived of a high-speed Internet connection and was unable to watch any online video. Since I’ve gotten back, I’ve been digging into a lot of [...]