by bob.sacha | Dec 13, 2011 | bob sacha, no interviews, sequence, What's New? the Blog
No words...
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 | Dec 10, 2011 | bob sacha, music, unfolding action, What's New? the Blog
This should have been boring: a short film about a guy making a drawing. But shooting sequences helps add visual variety. Nice motion graphics too....
by bob.sacha | Dec 8, 2011 | bob sacha, interview, place, story, What's New? the Blog
Ice Cube talks about the architects Charles and Ray Eames. No formal interview here and some really nice surprises too. “It’s not about the pieces, it’s about how the pieces work together.”...
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 | Nov 14, 2011 | bob sacha, future, interview, What's New? the Blog
I’ve long been a fan of Ira Glass and This American Life, the wonderful radio show that is about nothing and everything at the same time. Watching this explanation of what it takes to be creative reminded me that I need to be producing more work. Anybody rather...
by bob.sacha | Nov 7, 2011 | bob sacha, music, no interviews, story, unfolding action, What's New? the Blog
Here are two stories told without a single word: First, an Indian barber shop in New Delhi… Tom Pietrasik, who made the short, provides some insight into his tools and also gives an interesting description of what it was like to obtain the rights to the music....
by bob.sacha | Nov 1, 2011 | bob sacha, commerce, future, What's New? the Blog
This story about YouTube making a huge push television for the web is pretty amazing. They will pay for content and have said they’ll spend $100million dollars on the venture. Will you be trying to get some of that money for your online video storytelling? ....
by bob.sacha | Oct 30, 2011 | bob sacha, future, What's New? the Blog
The folks at Cisco think video will make up 90% of web traffic within the next 3 years. David Hsieh, VP of marketing, Video and Emerging Technologies at Cisco, says that video already makes up more than 51% of the traffic on the web today. Cisco is a California based...
by bob.sacha | Oct 24, 2011 | bob sacha, story, What's New? the Blog
A short film about Occupy Wall Street by Ed David with a nice use of music....
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...
