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 [...]

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Maybe it’s the troubled economy or the struggling newspaper industry, but Mediastorm has been on a tear lately with loads of good advice for multimedia producers.
Eric Maierson first posted 10 ways to improve your multimedia work now. A great list of ways to avoid some multimedia cliches and sharpen the overall presentation.
He now follows up [...]

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Looking to expand your skill set in the new world of multimedia journalism?  Gaylord college has a handful of free video tutorials that can get you started with a lot of the latest software used by multimedia professionals.
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A couple of great instructive posts out there this week.
Mediastorm posted a great top ten list for improving your multimedia production.
And Photojojo posted one of the best guide’s I’ve read for doing solid time-lapse photography.
Enjoy!
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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 [...]

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Great interview with Richard Koci Hernandez at NiemanLabs
In short:

The web is a new medium and we should approach it with a clean slate
Standups don’t work on the web
Jon Stewart’s brand of news may not be as fake as we originally thought

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