Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Marketing Mesquite Videos- Jeremiah Cook
Of the videos I have done I would have to say the Rodeo Food Court video was the most marketable. It reached a wide audience by appealing to not only a basic need everyone has, eating, but also to a more decadent side. Where you're allowed to indulge and eat things just based on the pleasure it will give you and not because it is just sustenance. And that is what the Rodeo is all about. Having a good time and because of the wide variety of foods available there is something for everyone. So I would definitely market it to the news stations that reported on the rodeo and to the rodeo itself for play on it's website.
Fiddle Phenom Maggie Neatherlin - Jeremiah Cook
This is a story of a 9 year old girl who is the lead fiddle player for a folk square dance band. This kind of piece that can be marketed locally due to the rural and grass roots feel of the piece. On a wider scale this piece can be marketed towards a child or parent demographic as an inspirational feel good kind of piece. It's a good heart felt story about a talented young girl.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Waiting Topless- Angel
22yrd Star Cunningham works at Vassalboro’s Grand View
Topless Coffee shop in Maine and she loves it. This 4 minuet long video is made
up of still images accompanied by voice over and background sounds. Nearly 200
women applied for the job, Star applied for the job because she “needed a good
paying job.” But months after shop opened it was burned down and opened in a
tent. Anyways if I had to sell my videos I would sell them to other news
outlets.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The New York Times - Jason Hogan
The New York Times has a video department of 18 video staff, but Ann Derry, the television editorial director, will also accept a host of freelance work from videojournalists. This video was shot by a staff videojournalist Kristyn Ulanday and staff reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg. It focused on the young generation of political enthusiasts known as millenials.
The video focuses on the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and a poll conducted with 18- to 29-year-olds concerned with the direction of national politics. Primarily, two interviews were conducted with members of the institute and what the findings of the poll produced. The video used B-roll of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and students at the local campus of Harvard who show an interest in the Obama Administration's direction for the nation, mostly gun rights and gun laws.
The reporting and research data infused with a lot of B-roll with the campus area and splattered with Obama addresses to the nation amid crises such as Sandy Hook show that most people between the ages of 18 and 29 are not for more strict gun laws. The two members of the Institute of Politics said data suggests there is actually a more evident rift forming between young adults and the Obama Administration, even though they thought results would show the opposite in the wake of so many national attacks lately that has strengthened the debate.
Ground Birds: Build It (and they will come)- Erica Gomez
URL: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/birds-animals/ground-birds/bowerbirds-courtship/
The video was about Male bowerbirds building elaborate nests
to attract female bowerbirds. They use
any objects like trash from people to help build their nest. Males also have to
perform in order to attract female bowerbirds. However, even with elaborate
nest and performances, female bowerbirds are very choosy in choosing their
mates.
The video has no voiceovers; it uses texts to give out
information about bowerbirds. The video uses still photos more so than video. Using text to give out information, instead of
a mixture of voiceovers and texts, it makes the video boring and dull. However,
the still photos and video brings the video to life.
Even though the video is used in the national geographic
site, which is appropriate for this type video. I thin the video can also be
marketed in Discovery Channel or Animal planet. Those two networks would work because
Discovery Channel markets towards documentaries about different things around
the world and Animal planet markets information about different types of
animals.
The Lifeline - Jason Hogan
The Lifeline
"Since the war in Iraq began three years ago, more than 17,000 American soldiers have been injured; an average of 109 soldiers per week." A staggering statement in 2006, and still remains so today. The Lifeline was a photo story captured by Rick Loomis, where he overlaid ambient background noise such as helicopters in Iraq arriving at helo pads with injured American soldiers. The story tells of the dangers of deployment to the war zone of Iraq at the height of military-guerrilla warfare.
It details the stories and injuries to three American soldiers: Lieutenant Geiger and Specialists Griffin and Foster. Voiceovers from some of the emergency room physicians explains that chances for survival of American soldiers who make it to the ER are 90 percent. Some soldiers, like Griffin, suffer such devastating injuries they cannot even call home to their families once they've been stabilized without the aid of hospital personnel. So, Loomis provides another voiceover with a medical physician assisting Griffin with placing a call home while he dictates his physical state to his family through a writing pad.
The combination of sobering photography with natural sound of the environment of Iraq places the viewer in the situations that some of the soldiers go through during time of war. Even though people might not truly be able to understand, the strength of the voices of the people accompanied with natural sound allows viewers to become more sympathetic.
"Since the war in Iraq began three years ago, more than 17,000 American soldiers have been injured; an average of 109 soldiers per week." A staggering statement in 2006, and still remains so today. The Lifeline was a photo story captured by Rick Loomis, where he overlaid ambient background noise such as helicopters in Iraq arriving at helo pads with injured American soldiers. The story tells of the dangers of deployment to the war zone of Iraq at the height of military-guerrilla warfare.
It details the stories and injuries to three American soldiers: Lieutenant Geiger and Specialists Griffin and Foster. Voiceovers from some of the emergency room physicians explains that chances for survival of American soldiers who make it to the ER are 90 percent. Some soldiers, like Griffin, suffer such devastating injuries they cannot even call home to their families once they've been stabilized without the aid of hospital personnel. So, Loomis provides another voiceover with a medical physician assisting Griffin with placing a call home while he dictates his physical state to his family through a writing pad.
The combination of sobering photography with natural sound of the environment of Iraq places the viewer in the situations that some of the soldiers go through during time of war. Even though people might not truly be able to understand, the strength of the voices of the people accompanied with natural sound allows viewers to become more sympathetic.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Cloistered for Christ-Angel
The documentary is a 2.38min about nuns living life in
the convent. The video is make up of still images accompany with voice-over.
The speakers do not give their name and they speak only Spanish. The Spanish track
is left as background noise as the translation becomes the main sound in the
video. The Spanish track always starts off first and then is overlaid by the
translation track. As the voice track is being play they show pictures that go
with what the voice is talking about it. It’s a really short video and it’s
done really well. For my final project I will be doing a similar technique, except
I will also use video and not just still images.
Sound of the Environment- Ch. 8
URL: http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/photographers_gallery/video_journal/cyclone/index.html?SITE=AP
Gerry Mendito is the manager at the
Coney Island’s Cylclone roller coaster that has just turned 80 years old. The
video starts off with Mendito talking about how every morning two people check
the track of the roller coaster to make sure everything is correct. Then they
have a mechanic to check the seating. Mendito has never ridden the Cyclone and
only knows how it feels to be on the roller coaster from other people. The video
also shows a point of view of someone riding the roller coaster and you can see
how much the camera shakes when riding the coaster.
The
sound in the video is of great quality. They used the sound of the roller coaster
going up and down the track as well as people screaming while riding the roller
coaster. It seems like they used a
mic to capture the sound of the roller coaster and the noise it makes while
going up and down the track. You can also hear the wind and sometimes when it
was cutting to the next video segment, it was hard to understand what people
were saying for a split second or two. When Mendito was talking there was sometimes distracting sound from people working around him, which takes away from what he is saying in the video.
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