June 24th, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
AP multimedia folks Damiko Morris, Jane Bell and myself put together an interactive laying out the chronology of the DC’s worst metro rail accident ever.
If you wanted to know how the DC Metro Crash happened check out the interactive.
Share on Facebook
June 24th, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
Fellow AP staffers Evan Vucci and Rafiq Maqbool filed this haunting video/photo piece of an Afghanistan girl burned by white phosphorus.
The attack killed two of Razia’s sisters, and wounded five other people in her family.
You can also read the entire AP story about how the docs at Bagram Air Base saved the young girl.
Share on [...]
June 22nd, 2009 by MattFordMedia | 2 Comments
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 [...]
June 8th, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
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 in an [...]
June 5th, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
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 [...]
June 4th, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
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 of [...]
June 3rd, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
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 Eisenstein (and [...]
June 2nd, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
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.
Share on Facebook
June 2nd, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
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.
Share on Facebook
June 1st, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
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 [...]
Matt Ford is a multimedia producer for the Associated Press. You can view his work at MattFordMedia.com.
