by bob.sacha | Sep 25, 2011 | bob sacha, issue, unfolding action, What's New? the Blog
I logged onto the NYTimes to check out what seemed like an interesting business video story : Marvin Windows and Doors of Warroad, MN has not laid off or fired a single employee despite the economic downturn. Wow, how do they do it? Watch it for yourself. It’s...
by bob.sacha | Sep 22, 2011 | bob sacha, music, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Prices range from Free to $1.99 for personal use to buy music for your stories. “Over 45,000 tracks” http://www.vimeo.com/29198414...
by bob.sacha | Sep 22, 2011 | bob sacha, interview, still photos, story, What's New? the Blog
I love the radio show On The Media, hosted by Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield. It’s a show about us! I also enjoyed the story Brooke Gladstone tells to explain her book, The Influencing Machine.. Remember, great radio is about pictures....
by bob.sacha | Sep 22, 2011 | bob sacha, no interviews, sequence, story, unfolding action, What's New? the Blog
One of your assignments is a story told without an interview. Here’s a short story told without an interview and told with very few...
by bob.sacha | Sep 21, 2011 | bob sacha, issue, What's New? the Blog
Web video can be a very powerful way to communicate issues. You’ll be doing an issue video as your last assignment. So I thought I’d shar a web video from Lucas Baino, dubbed the “Michael Bay” of political video-making,” according to...
by bob.sacha | Sep 16, 2011 | bob sacha, interview, issue, story, unfolding action, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Tuesday night I watched If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” on PBS’ POV. Why is this a gripping film? Because Marshall Curry, the film maker, was able to witness an unfolding action: the film allows us to live with defendant Daniel...
by bob.sacha | Sep 15, 2011 | bob sacha, issue, still photos, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
One of your class projects must use still photography so I wanted to pass along Starved For Attention, a site that was both inspirational and inventive on many levels: storytelling, web design, community interaction. While there are several stories on the page–...
by bob.sacha | Sep 13, 2011 | bob sacha, sequence, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Jeremy Caplan passed this great example of shooting and editing a simple sequence from the Vimeo Video School. Lots of things to notice here, both in the vareity of the shots they captured and how they made the edit. I think I might have made a different edit...
by bob.sacha | Sep 2, 2011 | bob sacha, interview, sequence, story, What's New? the Blog
Thanks to your classmates from last semester, part of this class has become easier.And thanks toy your classmates from last semester, part of this class has become a little tougher. Because people relied too much on the interview and not enough on the images to tell...
by bob.sacha | Aug 29, 2011 | bob sacha, sequence, story, What's New? the Blog
Your first assignment, which you will accomplish with a partner in class on Wednesday, will be shooting a simple sequence in close up with the Canon 60d. We won’t worry about sound for this first exercise. I’m including this short video story by William...
by bob.sacha | Aug 29, 2011 | bob sacha, interview, What's New? the Blog
Armadillo is a Danish documentary film about a Danish platoon’s experiences in Afghanistan shot over 6 months. The documentray won the prestigious Critics Week Grand Prize at The Cannes Film Festival last year. One of the reasons this film is extraordinary is...
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 24, 2011 | bob sacha, What's New? the Blog
I love this story. Why???? I find it fascinating (and I don’t own a car) It’s universal (and I don’t live in LA) It’s brilliantly photographed. It tells you less and shows you more. The use of sound and music is really smart in the way it...
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...
