Can films change the world?
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under video
The Guardian asks do films really change the world? Do films about changing the world make any money?
Of course the same can be asked of documentary photo projects.
I’m no longer even sure that documentary films affect the world in a different way from fiction or that people are interested in how fiction differs from investigation.
You watch films in the dark and emerge blinking from the cave, your life mysteriously altered. You feel different afterwards - more alert, more informed.
‘You should never know quite what you are getting into with a film,’ says director Stephen Frears. ‘And that means you can never be certain what you have got or what effect, finally, the film will have.’
Frears is a doughty defender of the power of feelings in films. He believes that what people remember in films are not facts, but emotions.
Go check it out.
Tags: documentary, video
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
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
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
25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
Finding yourself in a creative rut? Maybe these 25 short animated movies can help.
One of my favorites isn’t on the list:
Tags: inspiration, video
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
8Pin
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
I first came across this video last spring for my video class and never tire of watching it. From the concept to the execution it’s all there.
Be inspired:
Tags: inspiration, video
We need video.
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
What the Duck does a nice job of summing up the approach a lot of papers are taking to video.
A flip book for 8 bux.
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under books
Looks like these would make a cool little stocking stuffer.
15 seconds of video in a flip book for eight bucks.
Oh Christmas Tree
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
Jenn and I put up and decorated our tree yesterday. Here’s a time lapse of the ordeal.
Happy Holidays!
Tags: personal, photography, vacation, video
