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  1. Perfect is Boring

    October 11, 2013 by lpaters5@uoregon.edu

    Emmy award-winning multimedia journalist Richard Koci Hernandez shares insight in this piece on using any tool available to capture moments for story telling, from old traditional means to apps on an iPhone. Stressing that “perfect is boring,” Hernandez discusses techniques for obtaining shots you want as well as how to make your photographs more interesting. He also touches on the rise of blurb books, a site allowing Instagram users to create books from photos they have taken.

    It’s an interesting piece that bounces between interviewing your subject and also using stills to tell a multimedia story. A quick and inspiring watch for anyone interested in the multimedia arts, Hernandez clearly knows what’s “now.”

    Street photography and Instagram photobooks by @koci from Blurb Books on Vimeo.

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  2. “Brighton” Hybrid Documentary/Music Video

    October 11, 2013 by jarrattt@uoregon.edu

    Brighton from Public Record on Vimeo.

    This piece uses the energy and excitement associated with music videos to bring an urgency to the story, but it uses the techniques of storytelling associated with documentary to expand the meaning in the music video. Often in music videos there is “music video logic” which kinda means that unexplainable happenings and non sequiturs work whether or not they really work. There is a general progression of events, but if random stuff happens along the way it will still “make sense.” In “Brighton” we find a short documentary that has adapted itself to a song while holding onto a the techniques and aesthetic associated with its genre of origin. The filmmaker notes that this is a hybrid in the description and it truly feels like it. Sometimes you can mask bad filmmaking by slapping a song down under the visuals. The song will then distract from the potentially bad storytelling, but in this video it does feel like the two genres are working together. While you may enjoy the song I don’t think you will ever be distracted from the power of the story being told.

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  3. The Girl Effect “Info Graphic”

    October 11, 2013 by oaldakhe@uoregon.edu

     

    The Girl Effect premise revolves around including girls in education, health and economic investment in order to have a better chance of preventing issues such as child marriage, teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and breaking the inter-generational cycle of poverty.

    The girl effect discovers case studies that show the girl effect in action, plus toolkits, images, videos and insights documents to download and use in one’s own work. This is also like any of the projects we study in our Participatory Media and Social Change class where someone can simply 
Join the movement by Taking the content, Using it, Sharing it and Changing the world.

    In this short video we see a simple techniques and yet it’s a very powerful piece. It highlights the importance of pacing and building music along with in the shots or the “Sound Design”. It’s also a cute infographic considering the subject revolving around young girls. My understanding of doing such piece is simply drawing things in photoshop then animating them and speeding them in editing.

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  4. Inspirational Piece of perseverance about Sydney

    October 11, 2013 by bjh@uoregon.edu

    Sidney from Taryn Kosviner on Vimeo.

    This week I found the video “Sydney” on the Viemo staff picks page.  I chose this piece after watching it because it gives me the feel of what we will be trying to make while in this class.   The video feels like it is real life and not a move.  A single camera setup makes the sitdowns with Sydney that much more personal making it really feel like he is talking to the viewer.

    It’s a short documentary, just over four minutes, but in that time you get a sense of Sydney’s happiness in the hobbies he has found for himself late in his life.

    It really gives me hope that I would be able to find myself as Sydney has, the simple joy and sportsmanship of pool, to the exuberance and joy of dancing.  You can really tell that dancing is Sydney’s true passion, throughout the video when he is walking around he will just start dancing to the tune in his head and a smile on his face.  But the video was so much more than that, you were able to also feel a little bit of his pain when he was talking about his wife, with the love that he had for her and the pain he must feel now that she isn’t with him, even if those word go unsaid.

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