Category: Video & Multimedia
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Soundslides goes full screen! « Mastering Multimedia
As I was finishing up producing an audio slideshow for Spokesman-Review photojournalist, Brian Plonka, I came across this new beta version of Soundslides Plus today.I see Joe Weiss has been busy updating the program. One bad-ass feature is a new full screen mode. Check it out here.
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Video: Kathy Ryan and Simon Norfolk at NYPH
In this clip, curator Kathy Ryan and photographer Simon Norfolk talk about Norfolk’s project photographing missiles and rockets: Check it out here.
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The Convergence of Still Photography & Video
Social adoption of technological change takes place for one of two reason… 1 – A need is determined and someone then finds a way to fulfill it 2 – A new technology evolves and people then discover what can be done with it Check it out here.
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The Backlash Against Magazine Airbrushing
Airbrushing celebrity and model photos has become so common that it’s a popular pastime for magazine readers to spot the digital manipulations. But have photo editors gone too far? Check it out here. Via PDNPulse.
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What's New at NAB 2008 – The Digital Journalist
It’s the biggest toy store in the world. But this one is for adults who won’t blink an eye at dropping a couple of million bucks on the latest satellite truck or news helicopter. PF Bentley and Dirck Halstead spent four days trudging the miles between the four huge halls at the Las Vegas Convention…
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NYPD cop: videoing me breaking the law is a terrorist act – Boing Boing
This video is of a man filming a cop who parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant. He follows her, asking questions, and she mostly ignores him. Then something truly disturbing happens. A retired police woman comes by and informs the first cop, and the man filming that citizens aren’t allowed to film anybody…
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Kids With Guns – APhotoADay News
M: If you haven’t seen this multimedia piece by Tim Hussin, you need to. It’s hands down my favorite SoundSlides show of the year Check it out here.
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How to make your video editing easier
Here are some of the things I do to make my video edit easier Check it out here.
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Tourist pix of North Korea: Paul Koontz on TED.com
While in Asia in 2007, TEDster Paul Koontz got the priceless chance to spend a few days in North Korea. He brought his kids and his camera, capturing both quotidian detail (like the military bearing of a lonely traffic warden) and the grand spectacle leading up to the Mass Games. This short slideshow gives a…
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Contest season leaves an impression « Mastering Multimedia
In the last month or so I have judged four multimedia contests. After watching a bushel newspaper-produced video, I began to see a lot of patterns in the productions. Unfortunately, not all of it was good. Check it out here.
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Toilet Paper Rolls and Pipe Cleaners – APAD
This is great storytelling on so many levels. And it rocked me to the core this morning. Check it out here.
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Judges Pick Web Site Winners In NPPA's 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Contest
Judges picking winners in the Web site categories of NPPA’s 2008 Best Of Photojournalism competition have released the following partial results, along with judges’ comments, from the contest’s host site at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Check it out here.
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Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons
by Jenn Ackerman What started out as an assignment for school has produced a piece that has changed my life and hopefully will do the same for the people that view it. That was my hope when producing it at least. Ten weeks ago, we (my grad class at OU) were given the assignment to…
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You Can't Picture This – photographs on the brain
Thanks to Dan J for the tip. You Cant Picture This // Current Check it out here.
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W A R S – A series of four essays revolving around a common topic – Magnum Photos
WARS, the inaugural series will launch on the Magnum In Motion home page, March 19, five years after the war in Iraq began. It will be published on Slate as four episodes. The point of departure was a quote extracted from Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths from a 2006 interview conducted in London by Magnum…
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Audio slideshow: One woman's war – BBC
Canadian photojournalist Rita Leistner travelled to Baghdad in 2003 as a freelance reporter determined to get behind the front lines of the war in Iraq. Over the next 18 months she returned to the country several times capturing images of life with the troops – as well as behind the scenes in a psychiatric hospital.…
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Beck and Chris Jordan – Time Bomb – Horses Think
Beck and Chris Jordan have collaborated on a music video using still images from Jordan’s Running the Numbers series. Check it out here.