The three points that I’d like to emphasize in chapter 8 are, to me, very useful and practical for video/photo journalism. Walt Harrington mentions “intimate journalism”  in the “Beginning in Narrative” section  “records the acts of ordinary people and their everyday lives, something all too rare in our profession. These stories record fears, accomplishments, and […]

Being assigned to read Telling True Stories this semester was a fun escape, at least for me. I would read it or skim through it when I wanted to distract myself from editing or working on other projects. The book was easy to read and quick to follow. Even though it focuses on writers, a […]

I’ve been watching more animated shorts lately (Thanks Angela!) and I stumbled across this new 16-minute piece on Netflix the other day. It’s called “The World of Tomorrow” and it was written, directed, animated and edited by Don Hertzfeldt. (He also created this hilarious (IMO) collection of “rejected ads,” check it out!) Most of the […]

This music video was directed by Michel Gondrey, whose name you might recognize because he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2004 for his work on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In this piece made for the New York based band, Cibo Matto, Gondrey uses split screen to tell a surreal […]

Bikini Words from Nils Clauss on Vimeo. This piece shows us the industrial expansion in Korea during 1970s-1980s. The film crew set up their main shots in one room, but they changed the decoration time by time. In this way, audience can directly get what’s going on. Even though the culture is different compared with […]

I absolutely have no clue if this is a commercial of some sorts or not, but I loved it! I loved how the screens were divided and how they were capable of showing both sides of the story and both lives, inside a relationship and outside of it. This also reminded me of a clip that […]

WE THE ECONOMY    We the Economy APP We the Economy is a website that collaborates 20 short films related to every aspect our economy. The point here is not their content. The whole idea of its website design, and their mobile App is what I think we can learn and apply to our spring project. […]

I’ve watched Anna last term and I was about to post a blog-post about it, but then I watched the Burning Temple and decided to go with that, instead. I found this video in my favorites this weekend and remembered why I wanted to write about it. The first shot was what hooked me. Looking into Anna’s eyes and […]

Flying from Creative Action on Vimeo. I always struggling with my title in the piece I made, like how long for my title, how should I pick my font? A good title can attract more audience. I search “flying school” in Vimeo and I hope I can find some videos to learn (For my photo […]

Driving home from lunch on Wednesday, I heard a radio advertisement for the University of Phoenix that I felt was exceptionally well composed. The ad began with the narrator outlining what we may envision when we think of someone taking online courses (accompanied by the sound of someone typing on a keyboard). The narrator then began outlining what […]