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 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 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 [...]
May 26th, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
So I’m out in rural (and I mean RURAL) Virginia learning how to survive in hazardous environments from the Centurion group. They handle a lot of the security and conflict training for the Associated Press. It’s a great course if you ever get the opportunity.
Today I learned how to identify a claymore mine, stop an [...]
May 20th, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
MediaStorm has a new project, Driftless: Stories from Iowa, that is tied to a photography book by Danny Wilcox Frazier of the same name. The entire project and its many chapters are in black and white, a choice I assume is meant to match the black and white photography of the book that is inter-cut [...]
May 19th, 2009 by MattFordMedia | No Comments
The opening line to this post on, Lens, the NY Times’ new photo / video / multimedia blog is spot on in setting up this audio slideshow about Harlem.
Perhaps the most meaningful assignments for photojournalists are the ones they give themselves.
You can definitely tell the photographer had an intimate relationship with the neighborhood he covered [...]
May 19th, 2009 by MattFordMedia | 1 Comment
Recently exchanged emails with radio reporter for Bauer media, Adam Westbrook, about his ambitious multimedia side-project oneweekinIraq.net.
He recounts a lot of his approach at Tracy Boyer’s Innovative Interactivity. Essentially, Adam was assigned to go to Iraq for a week to do radio reports on the final days of the deployment for British forces based in [...]
Matt Ford is a multimedia producer for the Associated Press. You can view his work at MattFordMedia.com.
