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 | Aug 15, 2011 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling
One of the hardest things to accomplish it to tell a short story with a single visual, a long shot that has no cuts. As a still photographer, I did this all the time. But it is much harder to do in motion since we need to be getting new information in the shot all the...
by bob.sacha | Aug 7, 2011 | bob sacha, commerce, story
we’re lucky to have great equipment at CUNY but it helps to realize that the story and approach are more important than the equipment. Here the technique and story structure go, ahmen…hand-in-hand. That’s probably why I loved this short film made...
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 | Apr 27, 2011 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Yes, I am suggesting you watch this story about a rally for a few reasons: it’s very well done (not in the cliched manner we all know and hate), it uses music (horror!!!!), it’s in black and white (gasp!), it has interesting graphics and it doesn’t...
by bob.sacha | Apr 2, 2011 | bob sacha, place, story
Revisiting a House of Nooks and Crannies is a lovely story about a house by Francine Prose in the New York Times. It’s so visual, it would be a perfect example of a video story with Prose as the narrator ONLY if you were with her on her journey to visit...
by bob.sacha | Mar 27, 2011 | issue, story, Video Storytelling
What is the difference between broadcast video and video for the web? Adam Westbrook helps explain it a bit by detailing five things to avoid in web video that have become cliche’s in broadcast video. I especially like the discussion about the “eye...
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 | Mar 23, 2011 | bob sacha, interview, story
Brilliant!! (animated) storytelling about web, censorship and democracy by web scholar Evgeny Morozov tries to put all the pieces together, visually. Or what else you can do instead of showing a boring talking head. and here a video of Evgeny Morozo’s actual...
by bob.sacha | Mar 16, 2011 | bob sacha, issue, story
Here’s a straightforward video piece about living with HIV in Mississippi. Notice she focused in on a single story to talk about a larger issue, the specific made general. Lisa Biagiotti graduated from Columbia University J school a few years ago. She’s...
by bob.sacha | Mar 13, 2011 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling
Great stories have conflict: what is a place like now and what is it like after an event. This set of satellite photographs is a series of heartbreaking stories from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, brilliantly done by the New York Times.
by bob.sacha | Mar 11, 2011 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Short, sweet,simple and tasty. See it was used to promote a city but I don’t care: it made me hungry and it wasn’t slick.....
by bob.sacha | Mar 11, 2011 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Short, simple story about a book. Not perfect but worth watching because it’s an engaging story about something that should have been boring and non visual: making a book....
by bob.sacha | Mar 11, 2011 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling
If we had an assignment for a video story on a trip, this would receive an “A”. Cleverly created by my colleague, friend and creative genius Richard Koci Hernandez, with a point and shoot camera....
