Read more about the article MediaStorm Accepting Fall Internship Applications Through July 15th

MediaStorm Accepting Fall Internship Applications Through July 15th

We’re currently accepting applications for our Fall 2014 internship. If you’re motivated, highly organized, and passionate about multimedia, we’d love to hear from you. The internship generally runs from September to December, but start dates are flexible. We’re looking for applicants with experience in multimedia production, design, motion graphics, and/or web development. Internships are paid. How to Apply All applications must be submitted through our online application form. Applicants should be prepared to supply: Links to pieces produced/collaborated on (please indicate role in each) Available start/end dates Hours/week available Applications are due July 15, 2014. Frequently Asked Questions Trying to decide if you should apply? Here are answers to the most frequently asked questions we get from applicants. What will I be doing as a Mediastorm intern? This is a production internship. You will be working closely with the MediaStorm team to produce multimedia projects. This means full days in front of…

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Read more about the article New Features in Premiere Pro CC (2014)

New Features in Premiere Pro CC (2014)

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. In June, Adobe released major updates across their Creative Cloud suite of applications, including Premiere Pro CC. In the coming weeks, I will show you some of these great new features. First though, here are some highlights that are most exciting: Browse After Effects projects in the Media Browser. Audio pitch remains the same when you shuttle forwards and back. The ability to select all tracks backwards. Select multiple transitions and change their durations simultaneously. Match Frame backwards, from the Source window to the Timeline. Tag ‘favorites’ in the Media Browser. Automatically back up autosave files to Adobe’s Creative Cloud. All video and audio tracks can be locked…

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The One Thing

Editing is about making decisions, thousands and thousands of them. Everything from whether to use a one-frame audio dissolve that will ultimately go unnoticed to how to arrange the scenes of your story in order to create the most powerful dramatic arc—the kind of choice that will ultimately determine the success of your work. Decisions lead to other options which lead to other decisions and on and on, seemingly forever. It’s easy to get lost in trying to predict how a single choice will affect the rest of your work when you arrive downstream. It can feel overwhelming. And Lord knows, I’ve done my share of fretting. When I think about the work to be done on my current project, part of me wants to crawl under a bed with a bag of candy and a stack of comic books. But I don’t because I have two weapons in that fight. I…

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Read more about the article Deadline Approaching: Alexia Foundation 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant
From 7-9pm young women, ages 15 to 22, prepare for a night of work at the Violin Karaoke bar in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Their job is to sell drinks to customers who book the karaoke rooms; in the neighboring dance club, also part of the Violin, there are cocktail waitresses. However, many are also freelance sex workers or ‘bar girls’ who make their own arrangements with the customers for a ‘date.’ Most of the customers are asian; they are either Thai, Korean, Chinese, or Japanese. The Thai sex industry model is rapidly developing in the Cambodian capitol, Phnom Penh. Tim Matsui

Deadline Approaching: Alexia Foundation 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant

The deadline to apply for the 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant is Monday, June 30th, 2014 at 2 p.m. EST. The grant will provide a $25,000 grant for a project to be produced on a significant issue involving and affecting women. Any photojournalist from anywhere in the world is eligible to submit a proposal. For more information visit www.alexiafoundation.org.

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6 Ideas to Energize Your Social Media Content

The last time I wrote about social media, I made the case for storytellers and content creators to listen before they do any brand promotion online. Observing your online network should’ve given you some insight into what topics interest your neck of the digital woods.

And now that you’re ready to talk, what do you say? Here are a few easy ways to package and deploy that insight to benefit your social media strategy.

Create a social media calendar

Timeliness is next to godliness online. Make a calendar of holidays, annual awareness campaigns and events you can leverage to promote your work. At the beginning of the week, I also make a note of upcoming project/product launches and deadlines that need to be promoted. This saves me time during the week and ensures MediaStorm’s social media content serves our business goals.

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This Father’s Day, we presented “A Shadow Remains” to our fans and followers. The film premiered online in 2012, but Phillip Toledano’s story of taking care of his father during his last days expresses a timeless emotion.

Give behind-the-scenes access

People are nosey. Seeing the final product isn’t enough. We want to know what’s really going on: How did it get made? Who made it? Why did they make it? Share stories and photographs from events, meetings and your work process. It’s a great way to promote your work and stoke curiosity.

On Instagram, we gave followers a glimpse of our motion graphics team capturing artwork for our then unreleased series for ICP’s Infinity Awards.
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