I was walking off the US Air flight to a snowy Cleveland, Ohio when I spied Miki Meek, my collaborator, ]]>

I was walking off the US Air flight to a snowy Cleveland, Ohio when I spied Miki Meek, my collaborator, parked on a seat near the gate, cellphone plugged into the wall. “I’ve got one,” she said “and we can see her tomorrow.”

Thus began our 5 day road trip down route 71, from Cleveland to Cincinnati and back through Ohio for Yahoo!News, talking to Republican voters and learning a few things along the way.

The character she hooked was the wonderful Ebony Grantonz, the wife of an African American minister and a registered Republican. Early next morning, Ebony and her husband and their three kids allowed us to invade their home and ride to church with them. After the service, Ebony talked about politics and religion. She was smart, well spoken, frank, and described herself as “politically incorrect.”

You can see Ebony’s story and the three other short films we reported and filmed then edited and posted in a week (without much sleep) to the Yahoo!News Destination2012 political blog. Chris Suellentrop was our wonderful editor at Yahoo!News.

Excerpts from five recent projects where I directed and also did the cinematography. ]]> Click here to view the embedded video.

Excerpts from five recent projects where I directed and also did the cinematography. I’d love it if you watch the full films

The full versions of these stories were edited by Linda Hattendorf (Namibia), Chad Stevens (New Orleans), Scott Anger (Ukraine) and me (Dwayne Betts and Cambodia).

Scott Anger co-directed and also did the sound and additional camera on the Namibia, Ukraine and Cambodia excerpts.

Brad Hamilton shot second camera on the Dwayne Betts interviews.

“Bob Sacha taught me to think about storytelling in a completely different, and much more effective, way than ]]>

“Bob Sacha taught me to think about storytelling in a completely different, and much more effective, way than I ever had before.” … Chris Linder, photographer, scientist and multimedia producer

“Bob Sacha changed the way I work. His workshop helped me learn how to tap into the emotion of storytelling and the importance of good audio.”… Lauren Hermele, photographer, Fulbright Grantee and translator

Here are the workshops I’m teaching this summer. Click the name of the workshop for more info. Hope to see you this summer.

Multimedia Storytelling August 6-Aug 12, 2012

Nord Photography Workshops, Oslo, Norway
This week long workshop is split into two levels. The first level will focus on a basic multimedia introduction for photographers who want to add audio to their images. The second level will explore motion and the more advanced concepts of storytelling.

Advanced Multimedia Storytelling July 1-6, 2012

Santa Fe Photo Workshops, Santa Fe, NM.
Our first stories were spoken. Soon we learned to write, and then we learned to create visual stories by making photographs. Now technology has closed the circle, allowing us to easily add the power of sound and motion to create more powerful stories in multimedia. During this Workshop, students will produce a short powerful multimedia story that is reported, captured and edited in Santa Fe.
(here’s a blog post from a previous workshop)

Multimedia Storytelling: Images and Sound Dance July 29-August 04, 2012

Tuscany Photo Workshops, Tuscany, Italy
A comprehensive multimedia workshop.

Storytelling with Bob Sacha March 23-March 25, 2012

HAPhotographer Mexico City, Mexico
Photographers of all levels are welcome at this 3 day workshop held in Mexico City. Day 1 consists of a presentation and travel narrative by Bob Sacha followed by a seminar led by Adobe, while the remaining days are spent photographing the beautiful basaltic prisms and the Ex Hacienda de Santa Maria.

Advanced Multimedia Techniques July 15-July 21, 2012

Maine Media Workshops Rockport, ME

In this master class, students learn to use all the tools of multimedia more fully. Video b-roll is discussed, more advanced interview techniques, rack focusing, time-lapse and sequence photography is explored along with workflow and story structure. This medium to advanced level class is the next step, a practical guide to using these techniques in the field. Here are three great projects from the 2010 class.

Three student pieces from the Maine Media Workshop’s Advanced Class

The Teddy Bear & the Rock ©2010 by Tucker Walsh from teaching multimedia on Vimeo.

Do opposites attract?

Shot, recorded and produced by Tucker Walsh in a week in August 2010 as part of Bob Sacha’s Multimedia Master Class at the Maine Media Workshops.

Acceptance ©2010 by Hannele Lahti from teaching multimedia on Vimeo.

A birthday brings Teisha Jones face to face with an important date in her family’s past.

Camera, Sound and Editing by Hannele Lahti in a week inAugust 2010 as part of Bob Sacha’s Multimedia Master Class at the Maine Media Workshops.

Fed Up ©2010 Tariq Zehawi from teaching multimedia on Vimeo.

Tariq Zehawi has going to the grocery store to pick up some toothpaste when he found his character. And what a wonderful chance encounter it turned out to be. Camera, Sound and Editing by Tariq Zehawi in one week at Bob Sacha’s Multimedia Masterclass at the Maine Media Workshops

]]> http://bobsacha.com/2011/02/23/2011-workshops/feed/ 0 http://bobsacha.com/2010/12/05/change-from-within-stories-from-new-orleans/ http://bobsacha.com/2010/12/05/change-from-within-stories-from-new-orleans/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:28:11 +0000 bob sacha http://bobsacha.com/?p=778 New Orleans suffered devastating blows on many levels from Hurricane Katrina. But the storm gave the city the unique opportunity ]]> New Orleans suffered devastating blows on many levels from Hurricane Katrina. But the storm gave the city the unique opportunity to start over from scratch and to try to re-imagine government and other institutions.

Five years later the Open Society Institute wanted to look at three areas to see if things had changed. I spent a week with three characters to try to answer that question.

This is the last part of that short film, looking at online journalism.

You can see all three stories at the Open Society Foundations website, U.S. Programs. I directed and recorded the story on a Canon 5d, Scott Anger recorded the sound, Chad Stevens edited and Pamela Chen of the Soros Foundation was the executive producer.

This is my favorite story from the ]]> Dwayne Betts tells his story very well and what a story he’s lived.

This is my favorite story from the five videos I produced for the Open Society Foundation,U.S. Programs, Criminal Justice Fellows.

Formerly incarcerated, Betts is an author, poet and teacher.

You can see all Six of the videos at the Open Society Foundations U.S. Programs Multimedia page

Every Sunday I’m ]]> This is an interactive portfolio, click on the arrows to cycle through the images (and my dreams).

Every Sunday I’m left as an internet widow by my partner, who writes the wildly popular website Gastropoda. So while she was ranting online about food and politics, I was posting pictures. The site was designed by Audrey Chen and Billie Mandle, making a site that reflected both my dreams and photography in an even cleaner and more clever mode than what I imagined.

]]> http://bobsacha.com/2010/02/24/138/feed/ 0 http://bobsacha.com/2009/11/30/far-away-lands-under-your-feet/ http://bobsacha.com/2009/11/30/far-away-lands-under-your-feet/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:52:24 +0000 bob sacha http://bobsacha.com/?p=226 This is short film I made with a point-and-shoot pocket-sized digital camera.

It was the opening piece for a lecture ]]> This is short film I made with a point-and-shoot pocket-sized digital camera.

It was the opening piece for a lecture on travel photography at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY. The series was called Wish You Were Here.

My latest multimedia story was a ]]> The news about what we’re doing to our planet keeps getting worse and worse.

My latest multimedia story was a collaboration from MediaStorm and the Asia Society, is On Thinner Ice“ a look at how we’re losing glaciers and what that means to the earth’s “bank account.”

This piece features some amazing photos by mountaineer and film maker David Breashears.

I’ve been living the financial crisis for the past several months from the safety of my desk at MediaStorm. Working ]]>

I’ve been living the financial crisis for the past several months from the safety of my desk at MediaStorm. Working together with Reuters on a multimedia story bringing together the past year of their reporting in words, pictures and video, we tried to explain what went wrong.

The result is the introduction, which I edited and produced, plus a very cool timeline of the year of financial meltdown. See it at Reuters Times of Crisis.

Here’s the YouTube trailer.