12 photographers recently spent a week documenting Clarksdale, MS, as a part of the American Diversity Project. The Project aims to support documentary photography, by exploring the culture of small-town life throughout the country through still photography, also incorporating video and audio. One of the photographers (this year, it's David Degner), will spend an additional 4 weeks continuing to document the area.
Apple has published two articles on sound production. The first, Audio Gear for Rich Media by Joe Gore, focuses on equipment choices. The other, Telling Stories with Sound by Elise Malmerg, concerns the use of audio in creating more dynamic journalism. For additional information, see the MediaStorm document Gathering Audio.
With the outstanding Soul of Athens project, the students of the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University, led by Zach Wise of digitalartwork.net and Brian Storm of MediaStorm.org, have created an impressive multimedia document of the Athens, Ohio community. With a diverse group of more than 25 stories, produced in multiple mediums and wrapped up in a beautifully designed and architeted site interface, this remarkable project is an excellent example of the power of multimedia storytelling. Truly inspiring work!
Public radio community site Transom.org is featuring "Shortlists" recorded by site visitors ranging from professional radio producers to general public call-ins. From the site: "A Short List is made from your experience or research or daily life. You read it out loud for about 60 seconds and then tell us at the end what the list WAS. It's a story, with the title at the end. It might be funny, poetic, political...you decide. The grace of these bits is in the mystery." Transom.org's project was originally a collaboration with NPR's Day to Day and WCAI radio. Transom.org is now also featuring coverage of Deep Wireless, a month-long celebration of radio art held in Toronto this May.
With Final Cut Studio 2 now shipping, Apple has placed several FCP manuals online. The pdfs include Final Cut Pro 6: New Features, the FCP 6 User Manual and FCP 6 Working with High Definition and Broadcast Formats. Download links and other related manuals can also be found here. Learn more about our approach to producing multimedia by purchasing MediaStorm's Post-production Workflow. Spanning more than 200 steps, the workflow covers every phase of editing, from organizing and editing assets in Final Cut Pro 7 through backing up and archiving your project. The workflow includes exclusive access to our Aperture Workflow and our Final Cut Asset Parser. Learn more about MediaStorm's Post-production Workflow.