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Ivan, the Shaman Who Doesn’t Want to Be a Freak by Dominik Wurnig https://vimeo.com/63711300 In Palisades, NY, lives Ivan Szendrö, a modern day shaman who reveals “your legend” for $75. Knowing your legend, and subsequently your hero, heals you and helps you solve your problems. He is convinced that his message is worth a bigger audience.
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Kiss it Goodbye: Lady Pink Paints New York City – By Jane Teeling https://vimeo.com/52989678 Ecuadorian transplant, Queens resident, professional artist and former graffiti artist Lady Pink cut her teeth painting New York City subway trains in the 1970s. At that time, she was one of the only ladies in the graffiti scene. Today her work [...]
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Why should I care about a backpack? Marketing people are using emotional storytelling to sell their products. Why? Because it works! Here are two online videos from LL Bean: This one uses a lot of still photos. It also has a journey in a non narrated interview. http://youtu.be/ct3xv2brh8k This one also uses still photos [...]
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Are you patient enough to get to the end? Why or Why Not?btw, one of the exercises is a story without an interview. This would be an A+
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Be sure you add the category Film Festival One or it won’t show up.
Bob Sacha: The Johnny Cash Project
to see how this crowd sourced video was created, check out The Johnny Cash Project
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Really loved everything about this story, sent our way by CUNY VSW alum Mary Shell . this story has an amazing character who is thoughtful, reflective and very well spoken and who gives us some surprisng insights into what seems like a violent sport. The story has a visual and narrative arc, it’s beautifully captured with a [...]
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I was heading down the stairs at school the other day when someone called out ” Anika‘s watching a video and she’s getting all teary eyed.” And so Anika sent me the video. And I got teary eyed too. To me it’s a wonderful story and an even better story about an issue for a number [...]
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Here’s a really nice piece of video cut to music that consists only of still images. Cool take on a wedding video too. https://vimeo.com/50084006 Theo Rigby, the guy behind this fun video, has directed, shot and edited another great story about an immigrant family who has both parents deported: Sin Pais One of the assignments is [...]
bob.sacha wrote a new blog post: Using Still Photos Creatively…Very Creatively….. in Video 7 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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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 minute mark, you’re not quite sure what thye’re talking about or what they’re creating in all [...]
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We had 3 weeks of incredible films in my class. The last 2 weeks were my favs: check out Film Festival Two and Film Festival Three Inspired by everyone I found a few more: I love the energy and visual style of this romp through Bombay with two guys recording sounds as the basis for music. Notice their use of [...]
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David Mamet is an amazing writer, known for his award winning plays, screenplays, books and televisi on shows. He’s also a director and he has a quite famous rant in the form of a letter that he wrote to writers of The Unit, a TV show since cancelled. It shows how well he understands dramatic writing (he won the Pulitzer [...] -
Adam Westbrook has a cool post on How To Make Boring Things Interesting in Video. At the least, when you think of a story for video, run it through this flowchart.
Remember that a story and a topic are two very different things.A topic is a broad subject, like ’Immigration.”A story is about a very narrow specific [...]
bob.sacha wrote a new blog post: How To Make Boring Things Interesting in Online Video 8 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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There are two reasons I’m not a fan of narration and voice over…. 1) Narration is often often pedantic and poorly written. I realize that it’s very difficult to write clever narration. So I don’t get why it’s overused by reporters who can’t seem to be bothered to have subjects tell their stories in their own words. Sometimes, [...] -
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 story but for stories about the rest of [...] -
Here’s a lovely example of a powerful story using strong close-ups and a simple unfolding action. There is no interview, no narrator. It has great use of sound, editing techniques and music to build to a crescendo.
bob.sacha wrote a new blog post: A story about an issue with not a single word spoken 9 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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The first minute of this trailer is brilliant, especially in the way they marry the images and sound to give a greater meaning to each (check out the great effect of words and pictures at 00.45). I love the story too. They did a really wonderful job of making a boring scene–someone writing or reading [...]
bob.sacha wrote a new blog post: Guilty Pleasures…wonderful trailer from a boring subject 10 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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