by bob.sacha | Mar 21, 2012 | advocacy, bob sacha, music, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
I was struck with the beautiful visuals in this story, shot by Rick Gershon , a staff producer at MediaStorm. You can see that Rick’s sequential shooting and his use of closeups make this a very powerful visual story. You can watch a shorter version of the story...
by bob.sacha | Mar 7, 2012 | bob sacha, still photos, unfolding action, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
this morning I was chatting with Andrew Devigal, the NYTimes Multimedia editor. He told me about judging the POYi contest for multimedia. He also sent a link to one of his favorite pieces, Afrikaner Blood, the first video on this list. He told me he thought the piece...
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....
by bob.sacha | Feb 6, 2012 | bob sacha, interview, music, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Wonderful short story about a person, non narrated, hooks you immediately in the first sentence and expands out to the universal idea. http://www.vimeo.com/34792993 and a nice deconstruction of why it works from Tucker Walsh, a former student and super talented...
by bob.sacha | Feb 3, 2012 | bob sacha, commerce, issue, story, unfolding action, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Great video stories have surprise. I was surprised this morning when I read this WSJ review of the documentary Windfall . I mean, who isn’t for renewable energy? So watching the trailer was a surprise because it told me something new, something that challenged...
by bob.sacha | Nov 19, 2011 | bob sacha, issue, unfolding action, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
For the first few minutes, this story looks like super slick Nike commercial about a mixed marshal arts fighter, complete with a slightly overdramatic voice over. But around the 2 minute mark, it takes a very sharp left turn into “Wow!” territory. Just...
by bob.sacha | Nov 17, 2011 | bob sacha, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Fulbright scholar, Belgian broadcast journalist and CUNY senior reporter Tim Verheyden came to Video Storytelling for the Web class this week and spoke about his experiences working in conflict zones around the world, including stories he covered in Chernobyl, Yemen,...
by bob.sacha | Nov 14, 2011 | bob sacha, no interviews, unfolding action, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
You can talk all you want about how words are important but you are never, ever going to string together a sentence that can capture what this video shows starting at the 30 second mark. http://www.vimeo.com/31158841 Never....
by bob.sacha | Oct 23, 2011 | bob sacha, story, unfolding action, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
I know you’ve heard my mantra: “A person is not a story” This week I was a multimedia coach at the Mountain Workshops where my mantra should have been: “An assignment is not a story.” Maya Sugarman proved my mantra by taking a slip of...
by bob.sacha | Oct 10, 2011 | bob sacha, issue, no interviews, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Alex Mallis + Lily Henderson have. Here’s what they saw, Right Here, All Over. No snark from CNN anchors or New York Times style columnists dropping by for an afternoon…no narrators…. just voices of the people, slice of life.....
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 | 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 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...