Quick audio recording tips for multimedia. And a bunny..

Get a decent audio recorder. You don't have to spend much. See. Get a decent card or three to go......

Rycote Audio Event in Bristol.

Photographers..prick up your ears.. I know photographers are reluctant to admit this, but audio is the driver in multimedia. It is incredibly important. You can hold a viewer with good audio and average pics, but......

Lens Culture International Multimedia Exposure Awards.

$75 for a multimedia entry? Ouch. Oh yeah and if you want to enter a film that is over eight minutes you need to edit it down: If your full-length multimedia piece is longer than......

Get yourself trained in photofilm production.

If you are a photographer interested in working in the NGO/Humanitarian sector this will interest you. Next week I am training the communications staff working out of MSF Brussels and quite a few of their......

YES MM WPP 2011!.

Wow...that was quick...Michiel has responded, (see below post) and it's good news for those who use multimedia to tell stories - some of them, anyway.. "While photography continues to play a significant part in......

Good news from the Guru.

If you've heard about Jim Pickerell you will know that he sees into the future with all things to do with photography. He predicted the decline of rights managed stock photography and the increase......

Why you should give yourself a project.

One of the hardest things about working for yourself as a journalist or producer is keeping in the habit of finding, researching and producing stories. At first, you're not as exposed to them as much......

Zen and the art of Japanese Ferries – Where it’s at.

When one of my students on the Photojournalism Masters at LCC asked me if he could send me his first multimedia feature I said sure.  A decision I started to regret that when he......

After Jugo.

Bloodyhell the photogs on the LCC photojournalism Masters are a talented bunch. Seriously. The downside is that my life seems to be being overtaken by requests to look at stuff. I met Marco Pavan at......

In Praise Of The Audio Slideshow – Kevin Marsh, BBC College of Journalism.

Before I joined the BBC the one news programme that I would always try and catch was the World at One on BBC Radio 4.  It had in Nick Clarke the best news......

Prescribing Play – Multimedia.

This is a really well produced documentary by Jesse Morgan and a great example of how you can mix up stills and moving images. ...

Haiti: January 12 – by Ron Haviv.

"I don't think there is any one photograph that can encompass the loss that people suffered. I think there comes a time when......

Wootton Bassett..the town that honours.

Sent to the duck by Ian Forsyth, this multimedia piece looks at the repatriation of soldiers killed on operations whilst in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the thoughts of the residents of Wootton......

Multimedia: Audio Should Be The Strongest Element.

'Daily exposure to NPR provided an epiphany on the power of multi-layered audio storytelling and its paramount importance in news multimedia. That’s when I realized it should be the strongest element and that everything......

The future, the purpose of my future?.

Simon Sticker is 'a freelance photographer and multimedia storyteller with a focus on world and humaitarian photography, based in Cologne, Germany and Copenhagen, Denmark.' Ok so who isn't a photog with a focus on......

“A lot of people’s hearts died”.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful work.  Would have loved to have read the text that went with. Please take note ... that's the work of a proper multimedia journalist. THANK YOU Torsten Kjellstrand of the Oregonian ...

World Press Photo Multimedia 2011…watch this space...

Just as I was beginning to think I was not going to get a response from Amsterdam regarding the lack of a multimedia category, ( it's not like they've got much to do......

This month’s post on Resolve.

duckrabbit is an occasional contributor to RESOLVE This month I've been so knackered working on a project for MSF (which I haven't even blogged about on here yet) that grumpinesss got the better of......

“We’ll be better off with less photojournalism”.

“…The death of journalism is bad for society, but we’ll be better off with less photojournalism. I won’t miss the self-important, self-congratulatory, hypocritical part of photojournalism at all. The industry has been a fraud......