A tight edit with great sound design. There are some moments that build tension and climax with the edit and music. The interviews help give the character's more depth, hearing about the relationships and philosophy behind their sport.
George Steinmetz flies in a motorized paraglider photographing Africa's landscapes and people. produced by MediaStorm
Flying in a motorized paraglider over one of the most diverse continents in the world, George Steinmetz captures in his photographs the stunning beauty, potential and hope of Africa's landscapes and people. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/african-air
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Photojounalist James Patterson produced a audio slideshow following a woman with a mental illness and the community of support around her: "I'd Like to Say I'm Normal"
I love documentaries that give a glimpse into a foreign world or culture. In this case below the streets of NYC. There are some great moments of tension created as we are lead on adventures trespassing with Steve Duncan.
***Update: Tim Hetherington was killed in April 2011 photographing the Libyan uprising. His dedicated work produced important documents of conflict in the world
The documentary follows US platoon fighting in a remote valley of Afghanistan. The story is driven by a few interesting soldiers, narrated effectively through interviews and courageously made by Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington. Tim Hetherington's work for Vanity fair:
Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the war in Iraq and he's done extended stints in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, South Africa, Mexico and Nicaragua and elsewhere in the last 20 years.
Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya - might have been his most dangerous. Moore recorded the interview for us after sneaking out of Benghazi, Libya en route back to his home in Denver.
It has a cohesive use of stills combined with ambient audio (to express location), interviews and some short b-roll video. Although the quality of the video is not very strong, the video stands out for its emotion and storytelling. The entire series follows a battalion for a year from deployment in Afghanistan to coming home. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/battalion.html#/NYT
POYi (Pictures of the Year International) is a yearly photojournalism contest: This year's multimedia portfolio of the year 1st place winner is Leslye Davis a photography student at Western Kentucky University placing first over NY & LA times. She beautifully tells some hard emotional stories. Davis second video has interesting lighting for the interviews.