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“ Good stories have given way to the formulaic where-to, what-to and what gear must be used tripe, recycled and rehashed and posted in print, on the Web and on your television. ”
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“ Won’t you stop trying to get my attention by waving frantically, and instead invite me to hear a quiet story that’s instead been written just for me? ”
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“ Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow. ”
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“ To a large extent, news and story telling in video are today driven by text. That is, material is shot, logged, transcribed so that the video content is transmuted into text, robbing it of much of its power. The text (log notes, timecode notes and transcripts) are then processed into a written text script which is then transmuted back into video in the editing process. This makes no sense. It’s very much the product of a text-based world grappling with video which it tries to treat as text as best is can. This is a process of script writing that is inherently destructive to the power of video. It dessacates video. And today, with cheap non-linear edit systems that allow you to manipulate video directly, there is absolutely no reason to do this. To add insult to injury, in this video to text to video system, we write the narrative (the story telling part), remove it from the realm of video, take a narrator and put him or her into a closed record booth with a scrap of paper that often contains only the lines to be read - completely removed from the video experience, and record the narration that drives the final product. Crazy. Really crazy. These are remnants of another era - remnants that must be expunged from our production process for the future. ”
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“ Online journalists are more optimistic about the future of their profession than those who work in traditional media, according to a new survey by the Online News Association and the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. ”
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Listen to Britain (1942) - extract (via BFIfilms)
Humphrey Jenning’s “Listen to Britain” - a model of narrative doc filmmaking. How online video journalism should be done.
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“ Perhaps the redemption of the imagination lies in accepting the fact that we create much of our world out of the dialogue between verbal and pictorial representations, and that our task is not to renounce this dialogue in favor of a direct assault on nature, but to see that nature is already part of the conversation. ”
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“ This light-weight professional camera records high quality native QuickTime files direct to solid-state media which can then be edited straight away inside of Apple’s Final Cut Pro. ”
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“ There are many reasons for the failure of video advertising, but some of the foremost issues include: the dearth of monetizeable content, the high production costs of video ad creation, audience rejection of the format, and the resultant poor performance of video ads compared to other forms of advertising. ”
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“ Organic-ness is natural mode of sensibility that human beings have trained themselves to abandon in order to survive as the world has become increasingly inorganic. There are inherent difficulties in explaining the non-linear to a linear world, mainly because output is not necessarily proportional to input. Non-linear concepts like elements of the Organic Conversation are easily identified, but difficult to reproduce. ”
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A Tumblelog from Taylor Street Studio.
A Tumblelog from Taylor Street Studio.
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