Job Opening: Freelance Multimedia Producer at The New Yorker

The New Yorker is looking for a Freelance Multimedia Producer. Company/Project Description: The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a signature mix of reporting on national and international politics and culture, humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism of books, movies, theatre, classical and popular music, television, art, and fashion. Position Description/Breakdown: The New Yorker is looking for a multimedia producer who can handle pre-production, planning, logistics, shooting, editing video and audio, and posting the final product online. And would have aptitude with a mini DV camera. Experience with Final Cut Pro required. Knowledge of Pro Tools, Flash, blogging software or other CMS a plus. Must be able to juggle multiple projects, meet tight deadlines, uphold journalistic standards, and work well with others. Application/Submission Instructions: Please submit a resume and cover letter, and links to previous work to Blake Eskin with "multimedia producer" in the subject line. Position…

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Job Opening: Creative Director at Story River Media

Story River Media has a job opening for a Creative Director, based in Washington, DC. The Creative Director is responsible for designing sophisticated and engaging visual multimedia and interactive stories and supervising the work of others, staff and freelance. More specifically, the Creative Director will develop and refine visual design concepts, participate in web interactive concept definition, present her or his work to different teams, participate in critiques, manage production, and align himself or herself with the company’s overall goal of creating high-end interactive multimedia stories across all platforms for corporate, government, non-profit and publishing clients. The ideal candidate will be have strong visual design skills, design research skills, an innovative approach that breeds new thinking, a strong understanding of graphic design (type, color, layout, composition, motion graphics), a current understanding of the Web evolution, trends and current approaches, an understanding of Web technology, and an ability to work collaboratively. A deep…

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MediaStorm welcomes Tim Matsui

We are excited to welcome Tim Matsui as a Spring 2010 intern. Tim Matsui is a multimedia journalist whose recent work focuses on human trafficking. He is a past Blue Earth Alliance Project Photographer and a recipient of grants from the Open Society Institute, Fund for Investigative Journalism, and King County 4Culture. Tim earned a bachelors degree in journalism, with a minor in geology, from the University of Washington. He is the founder a 501(c)3 non profit using documentary multimedia to create dialog about the lasting effects of sexual violence. Tim co-founded the Travel and Outdoor Photographer's Alliance and organized several state-of-the-industry panel discussions with leading photographers and editors. The World Affairs Council regularly invites him to speak with international visitors hosted by the US Department of State. Tim will be spending the next couple of months in Brooklyn with MediaStorm, but is usually based in Seattle where he lives with his…

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MediaStorm’s Guide to One-Frame Audio Fades

In previous blog posts, I've described the cure-all properties of the one-frame fade. (See Ten Ways to Improve Your Multimedia Production Right Now and Ten Tips for Working with Music in Multimedia). Here's how to set up a one-frame fade as your default audio transition: Open the Effects window (command-5). In the Audio Transitions folder, note that one of the transitions has a line beneath it. The line indicates that it's the default transition. If you have not previously changed the fade time, you'll see '00:00:01;00' in the length column. That's a default time of one second, zero frames. Highlight the number in the length column and enter '1' (just the number, no quotes). Then, press return. Your default transition time should now be set to one frame. Sometimes though, due to a Final Cut bug, you may find that when you now select an audio edit point and add the default…

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2010 World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards to be held April 22-27, in Cannes, France

The 2010 World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards will be held April 22-27, in Cannes, France. The Festival offers photographers and its industry a fantastic 3 day program and features events such as talks by veteran photographers, portfolio reviews given by experts in the industry, exhibitions, screenings, workshops, daily live shooting stations and an industry symposium for all to attend and listen to renowned industry leaders talk about the current trends, issues and debates concerning photography today. The Awards ceremony showcase is for the first time open for the everyone to attend and will deliver a visual journey through many diverse genres of photography. The festival organizers have kindly offered our readers a 15% discount on all tickets for the Festival and Awards ceremony event. Tickets start at £15 - £30 and portfolio reviews start at £60 for 3 sessions. Confirmed leading industry participators this year are photographers Nadav Kander…

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