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 18, 2011 | bob sacha, What's New? the Blog
I’m a huge fan of Tucker Walsh since he was a student in my class in Maine and produced a wonderful multimedia story, The Teddy Bear and The Rock. He shot and edited that story in a week. He’s getting better. Check out this story he did on his internship...
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 11, 2011 | bob sacha, What's New? the Blog
TimeLapse of the editing process of the TV show Chuck: How 1 week becomes 3 minutes in order to realize 1 hour. and finally, a rapper embraces his inner...
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 8, 2011 | bob sacha, interview, issue
Nice piece about photographer Chris Jordan’s Midway project. The story has an Interesting and slightly more active way to do an interview, you learn something surprising and and you can really hear his great reflection at the end. see more on the Midway Journey...
by bob.sacha | May 4, 2011 | bob sacha, interview, place
Nice video from David Francis on the royal wedding that showcases what you can do in a day, even if you’ve forgotten your audio recorder:) “using a Canon 7D, and because I didn’t have my sound device I also used it to record the audio, holding it on...
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 | Apr 8, 2011 | bob sacha, ethics
There’s a nice article in the New York Times magazine about my favorite radio show, RadioLab. And there is a fantastic interactive that the NYTimes did, isolating some of their storytelling sounds. RadioLab is a brilliant show about science, told in an extremely...
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...
