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Making Boring Stories come alive with inventive visuals

by bob.sacha | Aug 19, 2013 | bob sacha, editing, interview, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog

A nice behind-the-scenes story and links set of films from Steffan Hacker, who is working to make boring stories interesting as a multimedia producer at Tuft’s University.

Great Stories Have a Human Connection

by bob.sacha | Oct 16, 2012 | bob sacha, editing, interview, story, unfolding action, What's New? the Blog

Really loved everything about this story, sent our way by CUNY VSW alum Mary Shell. this story has an amazing character who is thoughtful, reflective and very well spoken and who gives us some surprisng insights into what seems like a violent sport. The story has a...

A story about an issue with not a single word spoken

by bob.sacha | Aug 4, 2012 | advocacy, bob sacha, editing, issue, music, no interviews, What's New? the Blog

Here’s a lovely example of a powerful story using strong close-ups and a simple unfolding action. There is no interview, no narrator. It has great use of sound, editing techniques and music to build to a crescendo....

Guilty Pleasures…wonderful trailer from a boring subject

by bob.sacha | Jul 5, 2012 | bob sacha, editing, issue, music, sequence, story, What's New? the Blog

The first minute of this trailer is brilliant, especially in the way they marry the images and sound to give a greater meaning to each (check out the great effect of words and pictures at 00.45). I love the story too. They did a really wonderful job of making a boring...

Summer vacation with some cool tricks

by bob.sacha | Feb 7, 2012 | bob sacha, editing, music, no interviews, Video Storytelling

Samuel Ebat used some cool edit tricks in his video 270 Seconds of Summer . Ask me and I can explain how he did most of them....

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