The first of nine videos featuring local Indonesian children who will be attending the Green School this September and are looking for sponsors to help offset their costs. I am still getting used to doing work that isn’t necessarily “journalism,” but I feel as though I approached it in the same manner.
Feedback is appreciated. I am not sure why the audio of the father does not sync up in the middle. In FCP it does, but when I export it out it doesn’t. Viewing it on the actual Vimeo site enables the HD version.
Not sure why, but every time I embed it, it says “Sorry, this video no longer exists.” So here is the direct link to it.
I thought I would post some links to a couple of slideshow apps I have been trying out. The above was made with Animoto. You can link it to your flickr account and choose from a selection of musical options. It then edits together a short music video for you (30 second pieces are free, anything more and there is a fee).
I have also been trying out slideoo (which I used for the post above), FotoViewr, and splashr.
Slideoo is a horizontal scrolling slideshow that reminded me a lot of the Vuvox collage app. You can move through it by clicking on either end, or by dragging a scroll bar on the bottom. Clicking on a photo will take you to its flickr photo page.
Fotoviewr has four different viewing styles, all of which look very good, and remind me of Cover Flow in iTunes. There is also a full screen option, but currently there is not an embed option for your blog or web page (supposedly coming soon).
splashr has 23 different viewing styles with the ability to embed. However, when embedding, the default width is 1000 px, which is too large for most blogs, and changing that size lowered the quality of the images in the slideshows.
I always read them… apparently Ellen featured it on her show… they are the Missed Connections on Craigslist, and Katy Newton (of Not Just a Number fame) has done a great multimedia piece on one of the most interesting sections on Craigslist.
Every day, tiny stories spring up from the Southern California maze of freeways and neighborhoods and into the “missed connections” section of Craigslist. Most don’t have Hollywood endings, it’s just hopeful residents trying to meet, reconnect, share moments in some way. For the lucky few, lives change. Every week, video-journalist Katy Newton tracks down the faces behind the posts.
I haven’t been as good about keeping up with multimedia as I once was, so I apologize if this has been done before, but I really enjoyed this soundslides by Michael Morain who works here at the Des Moines Register. I thought it was simple but effective and enjoyable (probably more so if I could read music).
Des Moines native Linda Robbins Coleman compared part of her “Journeys” to the sounds of “a peg-legged pirate who happens upon some kind of Spanish festival.” Listen to the excerpt she described – and follow along with a simplified version of the printed score. (Or hear the real thing at the Des Moines Community Orchestra concert on Sunday.)
