I rarely aggregate on the blog, but I thought FreshDV really got this right. I’ve preached this for a long time: great content is about vision and skill A LOT more than the gear you have.
http://pulsene.ws/1lU2g
Learn MoreConsidering that I stare at Final Cut Pro for a vast majority of every day, I was pretty excited when I saw the announcement of the New Final Cut Pro X at last nights’s NAB.
Overall though, the announcement left me with as many questions as answers.
Learn MoreIn December, I had a chance to meet John Fedele, a very talented commercial photographer based out of St. Louis. We chatted about how video and multimedia are transforming what it means to be a still photographer and how clients are expecting more and more in the motion arena.
So fast-forward to last week. I saw that he posted on his blog the first motion project that he had done, a 40-second spot for a local restaurant called Stellina Paste Cafe (see above). I was immediately intrigued both by quality of of the piece and wanted to know more about how a commercial photographer (and former art director in this case) approached a new medium.
Learn More
I was so excited to watch the first video content I found that The Daily had produced itself. I mean this is the iPad, which is as far as I am concerned the best device ever created for consuming media (not making media). And I know they hired some talented journalists for this, which is why I was so disappointed.
Learn More(This is the second part of a series looking at building text-based motion graphics, using a recent project of mine as an example.)
Previsualization is critical to a text-based motion graphic. I say that because I did not do nearly enough on this project and ended up creating problems for myself and wasting time. Every hour you spend thinking about your project before hand is going to save two on the back end. While that is true for most projects, it seemed especially true for this one.
Learn More
I have a passion for creating high-quality multimedia, whether it's video, motion graphics, photography, graphic design, web design or good-old fashioned text. I have a varied professional background in TV, newspaper and online journalism and a master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism.
Brian Singler is a visual journalist and multimedia producer. After graduating with a journalism degree from the University of Alaska Anchorage, he worked as a sports anchor at KIMO 13 TV in Alaska and then at the Anchorage Daily News, where he discovered a passion for cutting-edge online multimedia. He obtained a master's degree from the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2010 and worked for Newsy.com, the Columbia Missourian and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before moving to St. Louis with his beautiful wife Shawna and their two children, Seth and Summer.
This blog is dedicated to the production of visual media and multimedia journalism. It aims to dissect current trends, showcase the best projects, offer helpful tutorials on equipment and software and come up with new and innovative methods of visual storytelling.
Powered by Wordpress
Recent Comments