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michael's blog

Time Magazine Wins an Emmy for Videojournalism

Posted on October 8th, 2010 Written on michael's blog

Do you like this?

A powerful mix of stills and video

This comes to me courtesy of the Kobre Channel andÂ Prof. Ken Kobre.

His blog and website should be required reading for anyone interested in video.

Time Magazine won an Emmy Award for "New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming.

The piece is a marriage of still photographs and a narration by photographer Anthony Suau.

Take a look at it.

It works.

It is video, but it is also stills, and it is very powerful.

What makes it work is the power of the storytelling.

When we say 'don't move the camera', you can't get more 'don't move the camera than stills', but see how Time Magazine has managed to marry the stills to great storytelling. The music helps as well.

You can do this also.

It's all about the power of the images and how they are held together.

Tags : Anthony , Suau , Time , Kobre , Emmy

Category : Journalism , awards

4 comment(s)

michael
10:06 pm Wednesday
Oct 13, 2010

Brian Storm does some of the best videos in the world today. For those who don't know his work, take a look at www.mediastorm.org

MacMacDevitt
6:19 pm Wednesday
Oct 13, 2010

I do find the mix of stills and video very powerful. I first really experienced this on the Media Storm site. One of the pieces was about 3 heroin addicts who were squatting in a building in NYC. Also a series about people in small towns in Iowa. Towns that are struggling to survive. residients who are struggling as well.

gvcmiami
5:12 pm Tuesday
Oct 12, 2010

... touching...

TopAbbott
12:54 pm Friday
Oct 8, 2010

Fantastic ending with the East German Soldier's rifle slung over his right shoulder and the...well, don't want to spoil it for anyone else. Perfect marriage of stills and video. Love the simple grey background too. I remember this very well, the visible end to the cold war. I was a Sergeant in the Corps, amazing time in history.