Achieving greatness with limited resources
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under inspiration
“Sometimes greatness comes from not having resources.” - Doug Liman
As always a great idea/story will always trump the tools we use.
To illustrate his point, he recalled a commercial he was shooting for Nike in the late 1990s starring golfer Tiger Woods. Liman noticed Woods bouncing a ball on the edge of a club during breaks from shooting. Liman grabbed a shoulder-held camera and, away from the crew, asked Woods to bounce the balls while being filmed.
The shot, which became a classic, was natural, unrehearsed, and driven by imagination rather than millions of studio dollars, Liman said.
From News.com
Tags: inspiration, liman, multimedia, quotes, tools, video
A visual journal by Richard Koci Hernandez
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under inspiration
We all loved MultimediaShooter and it’ll be dearly missed, but thankfully Richard has found what he calls his new online distraction. Check out the first piece in his new visual journal.
If you haven’t yet take a look at the rest of his work. It’ll be good for your senses. His On The Road series does the impossible and makes the logistics of traveling seem sexy.
Check this one out from his trip to judge CPOY. Watch for the plane cut out and if you’ve ever witnessed contest judging live you’ll enjoy the “out, out, out” portion of the clip too.
Hopefully he has another in store for us with his trip to the Convergence workshop.
Richard’s work is the Uncola of newspaper video. Very refreshing and something I wish more papers were exploring.
Plastic Dreams by Richard Koci Hernandez
Tags: inspiration, multimedia, photojournalism
Saul Bass on film intros
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under multimedia
Anyone doing multimedia needs to be thinking in this same manner as they approach and edit their stories.
Saul Bass states:
My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film’s story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.
What resides emotionally in your multimedia or photos is just as important as the narrative and goes along way in engaging your audience.
In other words make me feel.
Tags: editing, inspiration, multimedia, video
MultimediaShooter is no longer being published?
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under multimedia
Awoke to find that MultimediaShooter was down this morning and I’m hoping it’s only a bad dream.
My stomach dropped when I read this:
I’m walking away this time with my head held high. It’s been fun. I’m closing the blog doors for good this time. There’s not enough Jack Daniels or Red Bull to get me back this time. Sorry for on again off again nature of the blog lately. Thanks for the support through the hacks. This is a great time for me to step away from the blogosphere.
Good Night and Good Luck, see you in the real world.
Richard thanks again for everything. As I’ve said before you’ve been an incredible asset to the storytelling community and hopefully your voice isn’t lost for good.
Richard’s Multimedia Journal is sitting on my wish list and can be bought here.
Tags: inspiration, journalism, multimedia, photojournalism, web
Trapped - Mental Illness in America’s Prison
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
My girlfriend, Jenn, posted her stunning magazine project that deals with mental illness in prison.
Jenn’s work is one of the strongest multimedia pieces I’ve seen in recent memory. From the featured project to the raw inmate interviews the pieces will leave you feeling for these men.
Of the project Jenn wrote on her blog:
My intention was to make a multimedia piece that made the viewer feel what I felt when I was there. There were days that I was extremely scared and others that I left thinking how much someone on the outside missed them. Some days, I had to remind myself that many of these men had done heinous things.
Great job Jenn. I’m so proud of you.
Tags: inspiration, multimedia, photojournalism, school, video
Snowbirds in Quartzsite launches.
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
My magazine project is complete. (This is when I’m told it’s safe to breathe again.)
One main multimedia piece. One photo gallery. One embedded map. One time-lapse. One website. All in the blur of one quarter.
It was the class of ones for me.
One step at a time, I wore the many hats that the class calls upon you to wear. I was the publisher who wrote the mission statement for my publication. I was the assignment editor who researched and wrote up the shooting assignments. I was the photojournalist out in the field shooting, which was the highlight even if it left me exhausted. After shooting came the tedious world of production and editing. Days spent hacking away at php files and hours cutting audio and video.
It’s a great(well somewhat great not fully satisfied with things, but who ever is?) feeling to see the end product and how all the hats eventually brought us to one uniform package. It’s no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow, but it’s a quarter I’ll never forget.
It doesn’t feel like I’m done yet, but hopefully tomorrow when we have our show and tell I’ll be able to look at everything my classmates and I accomplished and be proud of what we did.
Is it on caliber with the multimedia newspapers produce? Hopefully.
See what you think for yourself.
Tags: me, multimedia, photojournalism, Quartzsite, school, web
Redesigned my website.
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
Spent all weekend buried deep in WordPress working on a redesign of my website.
Check it out here.
I’m hoping by using WordPress and a content management system to drive the photo galleries that I’ll actually update it more often now.
It’s not completely finished it yet, but it’s getting close. I need to get this blog integrated into the mix yet and finish up the multimedia page.
Everything look alright? I haven’t been able to try it on a PC yet. I’m a little fearful of the way it might render in Internet Explorer.
Any feedback would be great.
timg at timgruber dot com
Tags: me, multimedia, photojournalism, web
Welcome back MultimediaShooter
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
MultimediaShooter is back in business and with new content to show for it. There’s a new podcast of Zach Wise, a former OU alum, who played a huge role in making Soul of Athens what it was and is now doing great things out at the Las Vegas Sun.
Welcome back Koci.
Tags: inspiration, multimedia, photojournalism
RIP Multimedia Shooter?
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
Came home from a weekend in Minnesota to find that MultimediaShooter had been hacked.
Richard writes:
RIP
I write this with a very heavy heart:
I am sorry to report that this website is down for the count. The site was recently hacked several
times this weekend and severe damage was done. I do not have the time or resources at this time to
continue. I wish you all the best. I only wish this hadn’t happened.
[To the ‘hacker’ I hope it makes you happy to destroy something that people put their
heart and soul into for years, for the sole purpose of learning and creating a small community
on the web. Just to have you destroy it for no reason. You win. There is a special place in hell for you.]
To those of you who supported the site over the years, THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
I don’t know what more to say, except, remember, it’s all about the STORY, not the TOOLS.
-r
I’m hoping Richard finds the strength to bring the site back. His work and site has been an incredible asset in both my storytelling and shear abundance of daily inspiration. It’s been an invaluable resource for me and our community and I hope his voice isn’t lost for good.
Thanks for everything Richard.
Send him an email(rhernandez at mercurynews dot com) and let him know what his site has meant to you.
Tags: inspiration, multimedia, photojournalism
Saying no to video?
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
Hopefully you read this already. If not it’s worth your time. Koci started a well needed discussion with his recent article on MultimediaShooter to which Colin responsed with a list of changes papers need to make.
I agree with a lot of them including my hate for watching videos in a little window. You also ever try to find a multimedia piece more than a few days old on a newspaper website? Good luck.
A few quotes from Koci:
And no matter how hard I try, it’s just not working. We don’t seem to be making the kind of money you said we would and people aren’t really watching. You said video would save newspapers, I distinctly remember you saying this at your speech at ASN.
I love journalism and would’ve done anything to save the profession (and MY job). There WAS gold in the hills for some and maybe there’s some left, but not for most newspapers. Because, once again, our beloved industry came late to the party.
The viewer doesn’t know or care if the image moves like video or is a well paced audio slide show, they want a good story. Period.
Tags: multimedia, newspapers, photojournalism, video
