by bob.sacha | Feb 10, 2014 | bob sacha, future, mobile, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Philadelphia photojournalist and videographer Jim MacMillan has an idea to use his smartphone and his small point and shoot camera to cover breaking news and features, automatically upload them to his website and send out tweets to news stations to alert them to new...
by bob.sacha | Sep 5, 2012 | bob sacha, future, no interviews, story, unfolding action, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
David Mamet is an amazing writer, known for his award winning plays, screenplays, books and televisi on shows. He’s also a director and he has a quite famous rant in the form of a letter that he wrote to writers of The Unit, a TV show since cancelled. It shows...
by bob.sacha | Nov 14, 2011 | bob sacha, future, interview, What's New? the Blog
I’ve long been a fan of Ira Glass and This American Life, the wonderful radio show that is about nothing and everything at the same time. Watching this explanation of what it takes to be creative reminded me that I need to be producing more work. Anybody rather...
by bob.sacha | Nov 1, 2011 | bob sacha, commerce, future, What's New? the Blog
This story about YouTube making a huge push television for the web is pretty amazing. They will pay for content and have said they’ll spend $100million dollars on the venture. Will you be trying to get some of that money for your online video storytelling? ....
by bob.sacha | Oct 30, 2011 | bob sacha, future, What's New? the Blog
The folks at Cisco think video will make up 90% of web traffic within the next 3 years. David Hsieh, VP of marketing, Video and Emerging Technologies at Cisco, says that video already makes up more than 51% of the traffic on the web today. Cisco is a California based...
by bob.sacha | Aug 28, 2011 | bob sacha, future, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
I met Tim Verheyden at the same time I met the newest crop of CUNY J school students last week. (And they’re a great group.) There was one difference: Tim is an established broadcast journalist from Belgium with a jaw dropping international list of smart visual...
by bob.sacha | Aug 15, 2011 | bob sacha, ethics, future, issue, story
an very cool interactive story and a prize winning short film part of a advocacy site called : DropTheWeapons.org, brought to you by the London Metropolitan...
by bob.sacha | Jun 30, 2011 | Almudena Toral, bob sacha, commerce, future, story, What's New? the Blog
Almudena Toral has an excellent eye and a good nose for a story. She’s also a very good visual storyteller. For instance, when she showed the rough cut for the first assignment this past semester, it was pretty impressive, so much so that the class spontaneously...
by bob.sacha | May 16, 2011 | bob sacha, commerce, future, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Zach Wise, Richard Koci Hernandez, Brian Storm and Alex Jablonski talk about what makes web video fresh, different and successful. Produced by Jussi Jormanainen from USC | Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism
by bob.sacha | May 16, 2011 | bob sacha, future, What's New? the Blog
I love Robert Krulwich, the NPR Science correspondent and co-host of the brilliant RadioLab because he has the ability to turn a story ion it’s head, tell it in the most intereting way and make me stop and listen. Others love him too because a few days ago he...
by bob.sacha | May 9, 2011 | bob sacha, commerce, future
I found a few cool videos that were made for clients, that is, for money. I don’t know if these started as ideas and found funding, or were created to advance the ideas of these organizations. But I like the way they look: Growing is Forever by film maker Jesse...
by bob.sacha | May 3, 2011 | bob sacha, future, interview, issue, Video Storytelling
Congrats to all as three videos from the first class assignment have made their debut on the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism home page (in the slider!) and in this post: Work from New Web Video Course Makes its Debut. Amy Dunkin made the edit and snared me today...
by Almudena Toral | Apr 24, 2011 | Almudena Toral, future
http://www.vimeo.com/18395855 http://www.vimeo.com/18497543 A Vanity Fair Portfolio of his stills work A remembrance by writer Sebastian...
by bob.sacha | Mar 24, 2011 | bob sacha, future, story
This visual storytelling for the web using small cameras and desktop based editing systerms seems new, but it’s just the next wave of change in visual storytelling, “something new in journalistic film making.” that last changed 5 decades ago. The...
by bob.sacha | Feb 2, 2011 | bob sacha, future, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
The Daily has launched. It’s the first “newspaper” designed specifically for the iPad and they’ll be charging $1.00 a week. It does do some things that have not been available on the iPad before like subscriptions, sharing and pushing content....
