The story topics are all over the place, from recycling to dairy farms, bike groups to elementary schools. Eclectic ties it together as much as energy does.
While the students had produced a smaller piece earlier in the semester, this is their first foray into video journalism. The first time they’d picked up a video camera, launched Final Cut Pro or thought about matched action and sequences.
Which raises a question as an educator: do I share what’s good in the classroom with the outside world? I firmly believe that an education is an on-going thing, that failure is an integral part of that experience, that mistakes teach us as much as successes, maybe more.
I also believe that journalism is a Public Act. That hiding it away in my classroom is a disservice to my students because it takes away that public role, it removes the audience from the experience. We start out the Introduction to Photojournalism course this way with in-class critiques – every image submitted goes up on the big screen and everyone comments on it. It’s how we learn.
There is no right way to commit journalism. Some of these pieces I’m really impressed by, but maybe you like ones that I think needed a little more effort. Find yourself an hour and a good wifi connection and take a look. Leave a comment there or here, I’m interested to hear what you have to say.
There used to be these little logos you would find on web sites that said, “Made on a Mac.” I admit to being geeky enough to having one on my site … for years …
But this is even better … a short film shot and edited on the new iPhone 4. “Apple of My Eye” was directed by Michael Koerbel, produced by Eric Edmonds and Rebekah Koerbel, written by Anna Elizabeth James and Michael Koerbel and edited by Anna Elizabeth James. All in a two day span …
The film is about 90 seconds long, but the version below has the behind-the-scenes footage tacked on.
This piece, funded by Stella Artois and produced by Malcolm Murray, hits me in a couple of ways … I am fascinated by the subject matter, painted signs to me are just really cool. (And I have a desire to do a project about them … someday … myself.) And I think this is really well shot and well told. Spend the 13 minutes in it, well worth the time.
This has popped up in my Twitter feed several times over the last few days, so I figured I’d better go check it out. California is a Place is, at the moment, a collection of videos shot by Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari and they are pretty stunning pieces. Go check them all out, but here’s my favorite – it is simple, effective, fun and haunting.
In the late 1950s, W. Eugene Smith moved into a New York City apartment building known as the Jazz Loft. He made more than 40,000 images of musicians playing for the fun of it, along with hours and hours of audio recordings. Now, the show is on the road.
(Thanks to Abriana Welch for the inadvertent tipoff to the video.)
from recycling to dairy farms, bike groups to elementary schools. Eclectic ties it together as much as energy does.