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Innovative Individuals: Ashley Wells
Ashley Wells, Executive Creative Director at msnbc.com, has spent the last ten years at msnbc thinking of new ways to digitally interact with users as they consume the daily news. Ashley said that his creative team works separate from the multimedia team. “Our Creative Development department does not create traditional multimedia,” he said. “We are a collection of about 30 designers and developers—many with news backgrounds—responsible for the user-facing experience of our sites. So the overall designs and functionality of pages across devices, media players and interactive templates like timelines, charts, maps, etc. Increasingly, we invent storytelling formats for both content and advertisers.” We are happy to recognize Ashley as this week’s “Innovative Individual” for his many years of experience in UI design and development.
Maine Media Workshops offers slew of multimedia workshops for professionals and numerous summer jobs for students
Get ready because I am going to tell you about 40 multimedia workshops for professionals and 61 summer jobs for students. Now, just think about spending part (or all!) of your summer along the coast of sunny Maine to take advantage of these invaluable opportunities with II advertiser Maine Media Workshops. Not too shabby, right?
Innovative Individuals: Emily Sweeney
It is obvious that Emily Sweeney, staff reporter at The Boston Globe and president of the New England chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, has fully embraced the potential of multi-platform storytelling. According to her portfolio website, Emily “write[s] for newspapers and magazines, produce[s] videos for the web, contribute[s] to blogs, and even appear[s] on TV occasionally.” For her ability to easily transition from a staff reporter to a multimedia producer, we are happy to recognize her as this week’s “Innovative Individual.”
Introducing II’s online multimedia store
We have lots to be excited about here at II. Advertisers are approaching us about potential sponsorships, talented individuals are inquiring about contributing content, and our traffic keeps on growing. But we’ll get to all of that later. Today we added yet another component to our site with the introduction of our online store, where we have hand-selected 40 multimedia books, software, and equipment that may be of interest to you. Please support II by browsing the content in our store, and possibly picking up a new product or two! I received four of the books in our store for Christmas, and I couldn’t be happier with them. As always, please let us know if you think we should add anything in particular to our store. We are here to help you so please reach out to us!
New York Times aggregates plethora of 2010 Winter Olympics multimedia coverage
The New York Times has been pushing out new multimedia coverage of the Winter Olympics daily for the past two weeks, and frankly it’s been difficult keeping up with them! Thankfully, they created a landing page to promo all of the packages – all 24 of them – for our convenience. Personally, I would argue that the best part of this gallery is the ability to see a broad overview of their extensive coverage, which allows me to think about the decisions that went behind what medium to use with what story. As you can see, some packages are step graphics, while others are map-based interactives, while others are video vignettes.
Innovative Individuals: Tewfic El-Sawy
Personally, the best thing about our Innovative Individuals series is that I also get to learn about many talented multimedia professionals, some for the first time. This week’s “Innovative Individual” is one of them. Tewfic El-Sawy, also known as “The Travel Photographer,” is a traveling documentarian, multimedia instructor at The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, and blogger. Over the last ten years, he has led numerous international expeditions to visually document the people, culture, and practices of some of the most remote areas around the world. For Tewfic’s continual passion, dedication, and talent for multimedia storytelling, we are happy to feature him as this week’s “Innovative Individual.”
MediaStorm founder Brian Storm advises journalism community to partner and collaborate
Brian Storm, founder and president of MediaStorm, came to UNC today to speak to multimedia students about the importance of visual storytelling. I also had the opportunity to speak with him over lunch, and it was rejuvenating to hear him talk about his successful multimedia venture and his thoughts about the future of journalism. Below is a recap of his talk during UNC’s Photo Night.
Starbucks Love Project promotes philanthropy, creativity, and music in interactive interface
Investing in an interactive digital marketing campaign is a very clever move in my opinion. Add in user submission tools, social media, and a humanitarian cause and you’ve got yourself a winner in my book. After spending some time with Starbucks Love Project, I knew I had to pass it along to II readers so you could also smile and enjoy being serenaded by people of all ages from around the world. Then, if you feel inspired, feel free to upload your own video singing the melody “All you need is love,” or create your own “love drawing” with their simple Flash drawing board. If that level of interactivity is intimidating, you can continue perusing their video archive of singers, or browse Starbuck’s red products, all the while helping promote a campaign to fight AIDS in Africa.
Innovative Individuals: Poul Madsen
I admire a number of extremely talented multimedia producers, and one of those happens to be Danish photographer Poul Madsen. I first learned of his work and his company Bombay Flying Club back in 2008 when New York Times’ multimedia editor Andrew DeVigal posted an interview with him on Interactive Narratives. Ever since, I have closely watched their work and enjoyed corresponding with him about our shared passion. By just reading through his Q&A, it is evident that Poul is both a leader and game changer, and for that I am happy to acknowledge him as this week’s “Innovative Individual.”
Transitioning from photography to multimedia
Some of the most talented multimedia producers in our industry today actually started their careers as photographers. Photographers make up the majority of staffs at nearly every inspirational multimedia company – Media Storm, Bombay Flying Club, Talking Eyes Media, Weyo, and Story4, to name a few. Whether out of necessity or personal aspiration, these photographers have successfully made the transition to multimedia production and now use their still cameras as only one storytelling option. So why did they do it, how were they successful, and how can you follow their lead?
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