by bob.sacha | Aug 29, 2011 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
There was a nice story in the Media Decoder column in the New York Times today about G.E. and Cinelan’s plans to produce thirty 3-minute stories about innovation. Got one? In the meantime, check out Cinelan’s site where they specialize in telling stories...
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, 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 | 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 Mariana Keller | May 3, 2011 | Mariana Keller, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Here’s something really cool: the Knight Foundation and Mozilla are running a contest for video journalists who have ideas on how to tell stories better using video. Take a look! Also read an interesting piece about it on PBS and here. Some quick copy-and-paste...
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 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 8, 2011 | bob sacha, Video Storytelling
Two iPhone snapshots thanks to Mariana Keller on how she travels to her video assignments with all of her video gear. and a closeup…
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 19, 2011 | bob sacha, ethics, issue, Video Storytelling
There is some very serious show-don’t-tell in this web video for the Guardian by Dan Chung. Here’s another cut without the interviews, slightly longer, with music. Interesting...
by bob.sacha | Mar 14, 2011 | bob sacha, Video Storytelling
I’m not usually a fan of video that’s made up of images and music. But I’ll make an exception for this one. I actually wished it had been longer, I was enjoying it so...
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....
