by bob.sacha | Feb 4, 2011 | bob sacha, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Some of you asked for examples of silent films. This short web video by Ted Chung is not a documentary. But it is wordless, simple, has a surprise and I really liked...
by bob.sacha | Feb 2, 2011 | bob sacha, future, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
The Daily has launched. It’s the first “newspaper” designed specifically for the iPad and they’ll be charging $1.00 a week. It does do some things that have not been available on the iPad before like subscriptions, sharing and pushing content....
by bob.sacha | Jan 22, 2011 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Joel Sartore is a brilliant and award-winning magazine photographer, a very funny writer and constantly looking for new ways to tell a story. He started photographing animals several years ago and it’s amazing to see how he’s adding video storytelling to...
by bob.sacha | Jan 19, 2011 | bob sacha, interview, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Dai Sugano and the San Jose Mercury News have already won an Emmy Award for their brilliant multimedia work on UpRooted. Their newest piece, Torn Apart, is a powerful, emotional multimedia story about a family of mixed status where the Dad has been deported and the...
by bob.sacha | Jan 18, 2011 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, movie director, novelist and essayist and a brilliant (but often potty mouthed) guy who has written extensively on what makes stories work. This is a famous memo that he wrote when he was in charge if a TV show...
by bob.sacha | Jan 18, 2011 | bob sacha, interview, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
I was lucky enough to attend Polly Kreisman’s Interview Techniques for Journalists during the January Academy 2011. Polly is a highly experienced broadcast journalist and investigative reporter and a winner of 15 Emmy’s! She framed her workshop on smart...
by bob.sacha | Jan 18, 2011 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
On the day after Martin Luther King Day, a friend sent me this video. First lesson of great video storytelling for the web: turn off the great Mavis Staples song and you’ll still understand what’s going on here because the images are so powerful. Second...
by bob.sacha | Dec 20, 2010 | bob sacha, future, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
That’s the headline of a thoughtful story on the difference between web video and television from the Business Insider blog This quote from the story really struck me But Web video isn’t television. It’s something else entirely. And in the past 5...
by bob.sacha | Dec 20, 2010 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Story is king. Story is Queen too. As part of the 10 best political films of 2010 , I read this summary below and thought: “Wow! I want to see more, know more. I want to watch this story.” Orlando Fagin and Mikael Johansson were both born male. Both...
by bob.sacha | Dec 19, 2010 | bob sacha, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Interesting story in the New York Times by chief film critic Manohla Dargis. Working with the cinematographer Matthew Libatique, Darren Aronofsky shot most of “Black Swan,” about a ballerina (Natalie Portman) who loses herself to her art, on film. But when it came...