super cheesy and scary good

These little stories are one day shoots and edits.

Navigate to Cinema link and check out the little stories.

Strong and simple interviews (we know the script already, or at least the outline)
With lots and lots of details in motion. Same way you would shoot tons of details with stills for color, composition and flow.

ICU: Nice Guy I Hit With My Car

ICU is a video column by Katy Newton at the LA Times.

Airsick

Airsick by Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk.


Watch this piece and then as an exercise come back to the following:

Think about what this story tells us about energy in Canada.
What is true in this story?
What do we know and how do we know it?

What do you think about the floating quotes?
Do they work for you?
Write down one that you remember, right now.

What about the timelapse?
The music?
The pacing?

Turn off the music, what do you feel about this place.

Turn off the image, what do you know about this story?


(Whether these questions work for you or not, you might want to form a set of questions that serve as a critical approach to viewing. For example, why is it a big deal to have this in timelapse? Aren't all movies timelapses at 24p (24 frames per second)? Why is this such a big deal in our community, what does it signify? )

Tokyo Love Hello

My Last Mile

About Billy McCune by Danny Lyon on Soundportraits.org

Click on the Listen link to hear the story.

Notice how the vintage audio interview is combined with the recorded song and the more recent interview.

A Mother's Journey

Having a clear vision that you are able to convey through your headline really works for a story. Here, each photo relates to the mother's challenges of a caring for her dying son.
I find the strength of the story told through the interactions.

change

by Grant Morris when he was at the Nashua Telegraph.

A couple of elements, stills and vox pop (man on the street style answers) and repetition.
He committed to the idea for the day.

Death Valley

by Phillip Bloom

Burma VJ

This trailer really gives a "sense of." A sense of what it is like to there as a journalist in this particular time and set of circumstances.

And Apple's trailers are fun to wonder around in from time to time.

Between You and Me

A time lapse movie by Patryk Rebisz.

There is good payoff in this film.
When something is brought up, it is resolved.

(An example of a movie with great payoff is Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder.)

Notice the character development, the introduction of conflict and how it is tied together at the end.

Not Just a Number

The original interactive murder blog as a community resource by Katy Newton and Sean Connelley.

Six Days of Sully

by Léo Kim, The Virginian Pilot

my most important self portrait

multimedia self portrait film fest winner on Transom.org
(transom is a great resource for field audio recording)

Urban Exploration

Check out these sound effects.

Uprooted

Notice how Dai introduces characters, two neighboring families dealing with the same situation, and a series of symbols that he returns to again and again, eventually explaining them to us either through repetition or dialog.

He takes the time to develop the details and emotions that catch his eye, both visually and with audio, turning them into the driving force of this narrative.

William Eggleston

visual diaries

Political Landscape

Damon Winter's diptychs on the political campaigns...




What inspires you?

legacy

collaboration

Playing for Change

a moment

Radiolab presents: Moments by Will Hoffman.

soundmaps

another way of listening...

Brenda Ann Kenneally

Short stories from Brenda Ann Kenneally's neighborhood.
The intro Brooklyn is simple, no interview, sound effects and dialog are used to set the scene.

Intimate relationships surface through the interviews in the individual stories.
I keep going back to Fay and Andrew.

Darius Goes West

This is a feature length doc, online, about Darius attempting to get his wheelchair onto Pimp My Ride.

If you watch through their time at the beach in Florida, about 15 minutes, it is a good break if you do not have time to watch the entire movie.

DGW

From the Artist Series...

Hillmancurtis.com

Greetings / equipment poll

Hi everyone,

I am the multimedia producer for our team this year and looking forward to meeting you.

I will be sending more details about the structure of multimedia in our group, how we will approach it and the extent of its role for us as a team.

First, I want to do a quick poll to see who has audio equipment in our group/ interest in gathering audio.

1. Monitor Headphones?
2. Digital Audio Recorder? Please name the model i.e. Edirol r-09, Marantz PMD660, Olympus LS-10...
3. Microphones? Please name the type of mic.
4. If possible, would you like to gather audio?
5. Favorite audio storytelling site?

please email this to me at pmyers@brooks.edu

Good NPR background story on Woodstock...


other inspiration

in Bb

Nyle "Let The Beat Build" from Nyle on Vimeo.

Thoughts - Theo

Hi everybody,

I'm Theo. Looking forward to meeting and working with all of you as well.

I like to throw out a lot of ideas at the beginning of a project - so here's a bunch from me. I won't have regular internet access until mid-September, but I will do my best to stay part of our discussion.

Woodstock images:

Do this google search (click 'images') ---> 1960s woodstock source:life <--- and you get a bunch of Life magazine slides that Google has digitized. Just a warning, the images are not safe for work.

Some subjects I have been thinking about:


+ PEOPLE

- Bethel-area residents in their 60's and 70's who have lived there since Woodstock
- Young people. Our "current" Woodstock generation. Find models on craigslist and shoot portraits like this. A little blurry and naked and saturated. Hell, shoot the 60-and 70-year-olds from Bethel like that.
- Find out what keeps Bethel on the map these days. How do people there make a living? It's not Woodstock, that's for sure. Or is it? They just got a new Woodstock museum. My guess is farming. Whatever it is, maybe it's interesting enough to document. Check out the web site - looks quite conservative ??? and if you click the 'gathering' link it gets really crazy.
- Convince some of the bands who performed to come back. Do sweet portraits of them.


+ PLACE:
- Aerial photography? Light painting? Laforet tilt-shift?
- I have an infrared-converted camera that would make for some good Bethel landscapes


+ CULTURE
- Products spawned from Woodstock. A whole series on products like Cherry Garcia, which I saw here . I don't know, do them all crazy lit with like 10 flashes and HDR backgrounds and toning.

New Website!

Hi Guys, I am looking forward to meeting everyone at the wrokshop!

I wanted to share my new updated website with you all. Take a look if your free.

http://www.michaelmullady.com/

Thanks!

Thanks Anna!
Peace,
Leah

WELCOME!

Hi All!

Welcome to the Team Tie Dye Blog! I thought Leah's suggestion to start this up was a good one- now we have a forum to talk to each other about project ideas, logistics, and whatever else might come up. 

Sorry if it looks a little cheesy, but I couldn't help it, those colorful dots were the closest thing I could find to Tie Dye! 

I look forward to meeting you all in October, and hopefully getting to know you a little bit before then in this blog. 

Here are 2 articles I've seen recently about Woodstock:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/opinion/15collins.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

http://www.newsweek.com/id/211496

Let the dialogue commence!