Eric Maierson of MediaStorm recently wrote an encouraging blog post about finishing what you start. (If you don’t know MediaStorm, it’s a multimedia agency that produces video stories for a lot of NGOs. This moving story for the International Center for Research Women is a good one to watch.) Eric writes: …the last few...
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Tell me this video doesn’t make you laugh and also think about African stereotypes in the media. The Radi-aid website asks: “Imagine if every person in Africa saw the “Africa for Norway” video and this was the only information they ever got about Norway. What would they think about Norway?” Exactly. And by the...
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You’re sent to the field to take pictures and get quotes from project participants. The story runs on your organization’s blog and then you never again see those assets — the photographs, quotes, soundbites and video you produced. All that work, just for one blog post? No. I’m a big believer in ensuring story...
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Editing is hard work, so we’re taking cues on the topic from the NGO world and beyond. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is best known as the author of “Random Family,” a 10-year documentation of life in the ghetto. That in itself is the start of an extraordinary editing fact (how do you cut 10 years...
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Editing is hard work, so we’re taking cues on the topic from the NGO world and beyond. Sixteen hours of work for a three-minute saxophone solo (starts at 04:19 in the video below).
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Sketch of Jesus laughing. Photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl I recently saw a framed sketch of Jesus Christ laughing. Jesus’s head is thrown back slightly, his mouth half-open and his eyes half-closed. There are little wrinkles by his eyes and his right hand is lightly touching his chest. Whatever Jesus is laughing about, well,...
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