Lisa Jamhoury – Page 17 – Latest News from MediaStorm

MediaStorm Field Guide Now Available in 18 New Countries

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:October 31, 2012

The MediaStorm Field Guide is now available in 18 new countries, including New Zealand and several countries in Latin America. The change comes as part of Apple's expansion of the iBookstore to these new countries in tandem with their announcement last week of several new products, including the iPad Mini. The newly-supported countries include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. The MediaStorm Field Guide The MediaStorm Field Guide outlines fundamental concepts for gathering multimedia content in the field for documentary films. The guide is based on MediaStorm’s years of experience shooting and producing award-winning projects. Serving as a quick reference for multimedia teams in the field, the guide covers important concepts from picking appropriate gear, to setting up audio correctly, to shooting b-roll and backing up media. Additionally, each chapter’s most important points are conveniently…

Luminance Speaker Videos Now Live

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:October 25, 2012

Video: David Burnett speaks at Luminance 2012 from PhotoShelter.com on Vimeo. PhotoShelter has begun to release speakers' videos from their Luminance conference held last month in New York. The first three videos are from the first session of the conference. And they will be releasing additional speaker videos in groups in the coming weeks. The first group is available now on the Luminance website. If you missed Luminance, or just want a recap, check out our blog posts from the two-day conference. Follow the ongoing conversation started at the conference or tweet your reaction to the videos with #luminance. About Luminance PhotoShelter, the leader in portfolio websites, photo sales, marketing and archiving tools for photographers, hosted Luminance 2012, a fresh new conference to bring together leading voices from across industries to answer the question: What’s next for photography? This two-day conference featured two dozen top speakers from a variety of organizations that…

Intimacy in Multimedia with UnionDocs

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:October 25, 2012

Every storyteller knows that at the heart of a good story is empathy. But getting your interviewee to open up is sometimes easier said than done. Multimedia journalists Marcus Yam (The Home Front), Maisie Crow (Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now), and Béatrice de Géa (NYT: When illness makes a spouse a stranger) will discuss the delicate balance of getting intimate with your subject, how to navigate boundaries once you’re embedded in someone else’s life, and how they go about achieving a deep level of intimacy. Each guest will each present a multimedia story, discuss their processes, and take questions from the audience. Event Details GETTING CLOSE: INTIMACY IN MULTIMEDIA with Marcus Yam, Maisie Crow, and Béatrice de Géa Saturday, October 27 7:30pm UNIONDOCS 322 Union Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211 Buy Tickets | Suggested donation $9 Event curated by Mooj Zadie and Maisie Crow. About the Speakers MARCUS YAM Marcus Yam (b.1984) is…

The Wider Image: New Reuters iPad App

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:October 19, 2012

Reuters has released a new interactive iPad app to bring its award-winning news photography to life. The Wider Image is an unprecedented news photography experience from Reuters. Created exclusively for the iPad, it gives users a new way to engage with news photography. With updated daily content, it aims to position imagery at the heart of the user experience and to realize the unique potential of photojournalism. The Wider Image includes more than 100 stories by Reuters photographers from across the world, and they'll be adding new stories daily. The app allows viewers to interact with image sequences, read expanded facts and quotes, get to know the people behind the images through photographer profiles and in-the-field witness commentary, and visually compare social, demographic and economic differences between story and user locations. Take a tour of the Wider Image app here... Reuters-MediaStorm Interactive Collaboration The Wider Image builds on two Emmy-nominated interactive news-photography…

MediaStorm Speaking at FotoWeek EDU

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:October 17, 2012

Multimedia Storytelling @ MediaStorm with Brian Storm Saturday Nov. 17, 10am – 5pm, Goethe Institut FotoWeekEDU REGISTER NOW Join Brian Storm, Founder and Executive Producer of MediaStorm, to see how some of the top photojournalists have redefined their storytelling capabilities to include audio reporting and an eye towards publication in multiple media. Their work is capturing acclaim around the world in a time when readers' attention spans are running short. Storytelling opportunities continue to evolve as a result of technological innovations and an expanding media universe. The digital age is giving documentary photographers and photojournalists extraordinary new ways to tell stories. With this new ability, you can also exercise a greater level of authorship with your work. How can the long-form, in-depth visual storyteller satisfy both their journalistic and financial needs in this environment? Learn how to disseminate your work to create an impact on the subject, issue and hopefully society. Learn…