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 in an [...]
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 [...]
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 Eisenstein (and [...]
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 [...]
Out of pocket – Out of my mind
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 [...]
MediaStorm – Driftless in Iowa
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 [...]
Adam Westbrook – One week in Iraq
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 [...]
Us Now – Documentary on web 2.0
Great documentary from Us Now about the web 2.0 and everything it can mean for our future. Very well-produced by British doc house Banyak films which is located on the HMS president in London. (Yes, their facilities are on a former war vessel. Crazy, right?)
TIME – The Deadly Job of Drug War Correspondent
Great video from Time.com on the struggles for journalists working to cover the violence of the Mexico drug war.
Globe and Mail – Hell Hole
A recent project by the Bombay Flying Club is causing a lot of buzz. Paul Madsen, Brent Foster, Line Wolf Nielsen and Henrik Kastenskov put together this beautiful piece on the people in Jharia India who live above underground infernos. The video is running as part of a series in the Globe and Mail.
The piece, [...]
EPpy awards – notable video work
Editor and Publisher has announced its winners for the 2009 EPpy awards. The two projects that stuck out to me were:
Left Behind by the San Jose Mercury News
Really strong and inspiring visuals. Makes me want to run out the door with my camera just watching it.
Talking to the Taliban by the Globe and Mail
This really [...]
Wasington Post – Voices from the recession
Great piece from the Washington Post just launched. The first video is about a food bank at the Ambassador Baptist Church in S.E. Washington D.C. I like that they are previewing the next two videos to come.
One on bartending school on May 8
and another on foreclosure auctions on May 11
Sydney Morning Herald – Wives of war
Great interactive display of three videos profiling the women who stay behind while their husbands go off to war. The videos were all shot on the Canon 5D. The background noise is distracting in some spots, but the stories are interesting, and the photography is very nice.
Dallas Morning News: At the edge of life
When I was in Dallas doing a workshop with photographer turned documentarian David Leeson, the DMN had just started this ambitious project. The high contrast black and white film noir shooting does create an interesting theme throughout this series. Definitely worth a look.
Thanks to multimedia muse for raising this to my attention again.
WaPost – Fish and Politics
If you don’t know much about the Virginia governors race, this is a good place to start. It doesn’t have any analysis, but it does give a good introduction to who the major candidates are and the nature of the governor’s race.
A good example of how when the scene is the story, even in a [...]
Digital Journalist – Videojournalism edition
The latest edition of Digital Journalist is all about Video.
Lots of good video tips from Ken Kobre.
Great piece on working as a one-man-band VJ by Erik Olsen of NY Times.com. I couldn’t agree more with his points.
And a piece by Kathy Kieliszewski of the Detroit Free Press on how to build and run [...]
Columbus Dispatch – Death Perceptions
Incredible work by the Columbus Dispatch. Intimate stories with people who work with death every day. Definitely worth some time.
FRONTLINE – Pakistani Taliban
Fasicnating video about Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban on the Frontline site.
A dark window into the challenges President Obama faces with his efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Warning: some of the images are quite graphic.
NY Times – The New Hard Times
The NY Times has an interesting series aimed at promoting “conversations between generations” titled “The new hard times.”
NY Times sits down with people who survived the depression and has them share their story with younger people.
Where it really gets interesting is when users submit their own video from people who survived the depression.