by bob.sacha | Aug 26, 2012 | bob sacha, ethics, music, story, What's New? the Blog
A fellow journalist & teacher recently told me he was surprised that we used music with our stories in this class. There’s no doubt that music has a tremendous power to change the way people feel about a story. I know I wouldn’t use music with a news...
by bob.sacha | Dec 11, 2011 | bob sacha, ethics, music, What's New? the Blog
An interesting post from a wedding videographer who got busted for using popular music without permission in one of his wedding videos. He ended up paying 5 figures or “$$ xx,xxx.00” in damages, as he describes it because the settlement is sealed. So, at...
by bob.sacha | Oct 10, 2011 | bob sacha, ethics, issue, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
It’s no suprise that we have a class exercise where you try to boil a famous documentary film (often an Academy Award winning film) down to a 2 minute essence and post your cut to the class Vimeo account Vimeo noticed that assignment too and they sent me this...
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 | 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 | 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 | Feb 9, 2011 | bob sacha, ethics, What's New? the Blog
Nice profile from ESPN E:60 about teen suicide. Yes, a dynamic non-narrated story. And a good discussion on the ethics of the techniques they used to illustrate the story because they didn’t have enough visuals (and didn’t want to fill the piece with...
