by bob.sacha | Feb 16, 2015 | bob sacha, What's New? the Blog
I attended the day long Big Sky Pitch session at The Big Sky Doc Film Festival in Missoula, Montana last week. Here are the top 10 things I learned. Some background: The documentary film makers were all chosen in advance and all had strong stories. The...
by bob.sacha | Feb 10, 2014 | bob sacha, future, mobile, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
Philadelphia photojournalist and videographer Jim MacMillan has an idea to use his smartphone and his small point and shoot camera to cover breaking news and features, automatically upload them to his website and send out tweets to news stations to alert them to new...
by Almudena Toral | Jan 31, 2014 | Almudena Toral, story, What's New? the Blog
“Let the story move you before you move the...
by Almudena Toral | Sep 19, 2013 | Almudena Toral, What's New? the Blog
Deconstructing a lighting set up, by Still Motion. Media Storm’s Standard 3-camera set up.
by bob.sacha | Aug 23, 2013 | bob sacha, mobile, story, What's New? the Blog
They’re both about cellphones and neither has a narrator. One is short; one is long. Both made me stop and think a very long time. That’s what web video is about. I’ll list them in the order I saw them. The first by Werner Herzog for a large...
by bob.sacha | Aug 23, 2013 | bob sacha, interview, music, still photos, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
You’ll be doing your first assignment in a crew of two. I’ve worked alone, in a crew of two and in a larger crew too. For me, two is the perfect number. I’d always rather work with someone else than by myself. Here’s a nice story done by two...
by bob.sacha | Aug 23, 2013 | bob sacha, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
A great video story unfolds, in real time, and the visuals tell a story. (The web is a visual medium, otherwise the SONY Walkman would still be the device of choice.) Also, since it’s the World Wide Web, a great video story can go viral even if you don’t...
by bob.sacha | Aug 23, 2013 | bob sacha, interview, What's New? the Blog
There’s been some discussion recently about where an interview subject should look during an on camera interview: to the left, to the right, straight into the camera? Like so many things in storytelling, I like to look to real life as my guide. For instance, I...
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.
by Almudena Toral | Aug 14, 2013 | Almudena Toral, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
THIS (These Canadians, again…) THIS [editors note: this is some of the smartest interactive storytelling in the online world today. AND it’s government supported…ok, it’s the Canadian Government..bob sacha]
by bob.sacha | Jul 23, 2013 | bob sacha, story, Video Storytelling, What's New? the Blog
” Now everybody is a photographer, everybody is a film maker, everybody is a writer.” So what will set YOU apart? take a minute, yes, just a minute and check this> Would you pay $12.50 to see the rest of this?
by bob.sacha | Jul 13, 2013 | bob sacha, story, What's New? the Blog
What things about the story makes you watch until the end of this viral web video from Nicaragua? What lessons can you take away for your...
by bob.sacha | Jun 20, 2013 | bob sacha, story, What's New? the Blog
I’m a huge fan of the TV show Breaking Bad. It’s brilliantly written and plotted, beautifully filmed and always surprising, and I’ve only watched the first three seasons. Here’s an example of using surprise in storytelling. Up until the first...
by dominikwurnig | May 2, 2013 | What's New? the Blog
Today in class we talked about interactive videos – strangely in other languages they are called very differently: web documentaires in French and Web-Dokus in German. If you want to check out what is going on other countries I compiled some examples in English...
by dominikwurnig | Apr 16, 2013 | What's New? the Blog
The US is cutting edge in online journalism and as in many other fields, web video story telling is much better here than elsewhere. An initiative in Germany is now trying to push innovative videos forward by creating a prize for web videos. The Deutsche Webvideopreis...