I saw this video — about a family returning to Rwanda — in July when I attended the Travel Channel Academy training. The story behind the story (as I remember hearing it) was that the videographer, Victoria Holden, had recently undergone a longer version of the same VJ training — a style sometimes referred to [...]
One of the nice things you can do online (that you can’t do well at all in a printed newspaper) is gather up a big bunch of stories and present them as an orderly set, a mini library. I’ve written before how sometimes these collections come off as disorderly warehouses. Today’s example is the opposite: [...]
Being in D.C. on Sunday, I got a copy of The Washington Post. I didn’t get to read it until Monday, when I was on a plane. I got sucked into a story about football — American football — in, of all places, American Samoa. (Not to be confused with Western Samoa, by the way.) [...]
Ben Shapiro has some serious chops: His film and video work has been shown on PBS, the Sundance Channel and the National Geographic Channel, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has three Emmys and an AFI documentary prize. He wrote a very helpful essay about storytelling, and how [...]
Regina McCombs spent 13 years shooting news for TV and then (so far) 10 years at the Star Tribune online. In this Poynter column, she explains: Pacing Transitions, effects and movement Editing to sound Separately, Bryan Murley interviewed Regina and prompted her to offer suggestions for people who are just starting to learn video journalism [...]
A really nice column by my friend Regina McCombs: Meaning in Motion: Ken Burns and His “Effect.” Burns believes the photograph is still the core of visual storytelling, that “the still image is still the essential building block, the DNA, at least photographically speaking, of visual creation.” From that foundation emerge three concepts to consider [...]
Destined to be one of the great online projects – 6 Billion Others The site has a very beautiful design. What a pleasure it is to explore. (Link poached from Fabian Mohr.) Technorati tags: flash | flash journalism | video | multimedia | journalism | journalists | online journalism | online media | reporting