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Carolina Photojournalism Workshop launches 2010 site documenting life in Little Switzerland, NC
UNC Chapel Hill photography professor Pat Davison and his students recently launched their latest multimedia website documenting life throughout North Carolina during 2010′s Carolina Photojournalism Workshop. This past spring students spent a week working to improve their storytelling skills by producing stories about residents of Little Switzerland, a small rural town in the mountains of North Carolina.
Using multimedia to dispel stereotypes in “Colorful but Colorblind”
Less than a month ago, I featured “My Story, My Goal,” a multimedia project by University of Miami students about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Low and behold, they have already launched their next project “Colorful but Colorblind: Roma Beyond Stereotypes.” The goal of this project is “aimed at remedying anti-Roma stereotyping through the creative use of multimedia in reporting minority issues in new member states of the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia) and internationally.” Talk about tackling difficult topics with the vast possibilities of multimedia!
Everynone, NPR and Radiolab produce “Words,” a story about a world without words
Sometimes I need a narrative to carry me through a video. Other times, a montage of compelling shots juxtaposed around a common theme is enough. This was the case for “Words,” a recently launched video depicting wordplay and how “language connects our inner thoughts to the outside world.” Produced by Everynone, a studio based in New York and Los Angeles, this video was developed to complement a Radiolab podcast about those who do not live in a world of words, but rather a world of nonverbal wordplay.
University of Miami students personify United Nations Millennium Development Goals in documentary project “My Story, My Goal”
In an effort to give voices to those targeted by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, executive producers Rich Beckman and Tom Kennedy sent 14 young journalists from the University of Miami around the world with a mission to encapsulate arguably the most complex and ambitious humanitarian feats of our lifetime. With only two weeks in the field to adequately document the situation, seven teams of two Miami storytellers partnered with students at partner universities to collaborate on the research, filming and translations of each story for the project “My Story, My Goal.” “This was a truly international cooperation of students of all ages coming together to tell what they as native citizens believed was an important story in their home country,” student Lauren Santa Cruz wrote me.
The Guarani Project: An example of how to ‘crowdfund’ your project
Two documentary storytellers were determined to tell a story about the huge Guarani Aquifer in South America. They did not sift through app forms and spend their time writing grants in hopes they might get one to strike … Instead, they built a website that has great dignified but a bit ‘in your face’ pitch – very direct … and here, it works! They also produced videos explaining what they aimed to do, and dedicated their efforts to raising funds through Kickstarter, a relatively new crowdsource funding tool. Their efforts paid off, as they are now on their way to South America to follow through on their vision and commitment with more than $15,000 from over 100 funders. So how were they so successful? Is this use of crowdfunding a real funding potential for future independent projects?
France 24′s “The Fall of the Wall” web documentary: storytelling falls short despite interactive interface
Adam Westbrook recently alerted me about France 24 and Tandem Production Berlin’s latest web documentary titled “The Fall of the Wall,” and I was eager to check it out after Adam prefaced the link by “lots of good interactivity but poor on the storytelling.” Did this mean that they prioritized functionality over content? I had to go check it out for myself and low and behold, I actually agree with Adam’s assessment – they succeeded in making an interactive web documentary, but unfortunately the actual story content was quite underwhelming.
Behind the scenes of “Prison Valley”
Last week I highlighted the extremely innovative French interactive documentary “Prison Valley.” I was so impressed with the end product that I had to learn more. My amazing Spanish editor Andrea Ballocchi also speaks French (how convenient!) so she conducted an email interview in French with producer David Dufresne. After reading the English translation, I am extremely excited to share his behind the scenes account with you all.
Multimedia Must-See: Prison Valley
Stop what you are doing. Seriously. I don’t think I’ve been this excited about a multimedia project since I came across the interactive documentary “Journey to the end of coal.” Now, you are going to have to dedicate quality time with “Prison Valley” – to take a peek before quickly getting distracted by your email or RSS reader. The French duo David Dufresne and Philippe Brault decided decided to produce a documentary on the issue of incarceration in Colorado. But, they didn’t just throw up a passive, hour-long, badly compressed web video. Instead, they created an interactive documentary with user-submission tools throughout. They created an iPhone app, and they have a presence on Twitter, Facebook and their blog. They will then reverse publish it to a book and TV show. Welcome to the next generation of storytelling!
Marking the transition of media coverage documenting international disasters
Today we continue our series analyzing the changing landscape of media coverage regarding both the preparation and prevention of international disasters, including the philanthropic response in-the-midst-of and in-the-wake-of these travesties.
French journalists document quirky Parisians in “The Everyday Walk of Fame”
I recently got an email pointing me to “The Everyday Walk of Fame,” a site produced by French journalists Olivier Lambert and Thomas Salva who are documenting extraordinary stories about ordinary people in Paris. I am happy to see this initiative, and I hope you take a minute to check out their work and provide helpful feedback. They mentioned the need for all types of support – moral, technical, and financial – and I think we should all be willing to help those who are willing to go out on their own and continue to tell stories and produce compelling multimedia despite what may be going on in their professional careers.
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