Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy

http://www.itvs.org/facetoface/flash.html

These are more or less audio interviews with 2-3 portraits of the person talking. Watch closely. The image flickers occasionally.

Great layout and design – kudos!

Colors produced by Brad Horn

I’ll admit, I am biased in my opinion of loving the use of still images and audio in multimedia, and prefer it to video.  But sometimes, the use of video can be subtle and add something to the overall piece, and not be so over stimulating, over bearing, or just plain too much.  Brad Horn, an acquaintance of mine who is at the Newhouse School of Journalism @ Syracuse produced this piece with just video and additional audio, and I have to admit, it works.  It works, I think, because the video (i.e. movement) is subtle and adds a little energy to the images, rather than overpowering them.  It’s a style I call video portraits (does anyone else use this term or did I make it up?) and I like it.  In this case, a few of these portraits were in busy areas, with many other people in the background.  These young women are in their enviornments, without really participating in them: at the tennis court, or in the dance studio, yet we learn a bit about who they are without saying it outright.  It’s showing, not telling, and it works really well.  Congratulations to Brad & his team, I think this is really well done.  If you want to comment, please go to bradhornmultimedia.com and leave him a message directly.

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You can also see it on Vimeo

Check out 1-in-8 Million

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html