bob sacha » photo….video http://bobsacha.com multimedia, photography, video, editing, teaching Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +0000 en hourly 1 Stop Torture in Healthcare http://bobsacha.com/2011/12/27/stop-torture-in-healthcare/ http://bobsacha.com/2011/12/27/stop-torture-in-healthcare/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:09:59 +0000 bob sacha http://bobsacha.com/?p=865 It’s time to stand up and speak out against the terrible things that are perpetrated on people in the name ]]> It’s time to stand up and speak out against the terrible things that are perpetrated on people in the name of health care. Here are three films I directed and shot along with Scott Anger as part of a campaign to Stop Torture in Healthcare.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Do you want to do something about this problem? Send a letter to the Namibian Health Minister to demand an end to forced sterilization of HIV positive women.

Here are the two other films we did for the campaign:

Vlad is suffering from incurable brain cancer. Despite his chronic pain, doctors in Ukraine are only allowed to prescribe 50 mg of pain medicine. In another country, doctors would typically prescribe more than 2,000 mg for a patient like Vlad.

Click here to view the embedded video.

In many countries, governments forcibly detain people as a form of “treatment” for medical conditions such as drug addiction, mental disability, or tuberculosis. This is a story about Venta, a former drug abuser in Cambodia.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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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.

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“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.

Visual Storytelling with Audio July 1-6, 2012

    Santa Fe Photo Workshops, Santa Fe, NM.
    Storytelling moves to the web in this workshop that combines images and audio to tell more three-dimensional tales.
    (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 Change from Within: Stories From New Orleans 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.

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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

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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 Repo Man http://bobsacha.com/2010/02/22/repo-man/ http://bobsacha.com/2010/02/22/repo-man/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:54:56 +0000 bob sacha http://bobsacha.com/?p=572 I’ve finally moved by old Phlog (short for PHoto bLOG) from WordPress. Now I can run hog wild on my ]]> I’ve finally moved by old Phlog (short for PHoto bLOG) from WordPress. Now I can run hog wild on my own site…

If you’d like to see the millions of previous posts, check out my original wordpress site, sacha phlog.

]]> http://bobsacha.com/2010/02/22/repo-man/feed/ 0 Far Away Lands 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.

]]> http://bobsacha.com/2009/11/30/far-away-lands-under-your-feet/feed/ 0 Poverty in the Face of Resource Wealth http://bobsacha.com/2009/03/14/lets-be-honest/ http://bobsacha.com/2009/03/14/lets-be-honest/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:14:06 +0000 bob sacha http://bobsacha.com/2009/03/14/lets-be-honest/ I know what “transparency” is but mostly from my days as a photojournalist working with color slide film. So ]]> I know what “transparency” is but mostly from my days as a photojournalist working with color slide film. So when the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) came to MediaStorm to create a multimedia piece explaining what they did, it took me a while to figure it out. In the process, I learned a lot more.

For this story, I had the pleasure of traveling to London. Berlin and Washington to interview 6 people that represented all sides of the issue. Fifty or more countries in the world are rich in resources: gold, silver & oil but more than half of their population lives below the poverty line. This projects looks at why.

Maybe the new paradigm is someone like me traveling with 2 HDV cameras, tripods and mic stands plus my laptop. In each country, I worked with a camera person (Kimberley Williams in Washington, DC, Karveh Shirdell in London and Bjorn Forster in Berlin. We used a single light for the interviews. I edited the transcripts and pictures and cut the piece.

Of course, none of this would be possible without all the amazing photographers bravely working in these countries.

Thanks to all for teaching me so much.

]]> http://bobsacha.com/2009/03/14/lets-be-honest/feed/ 0 Do 1 Thing http://bobsacha.com/2009/02/17/do-1-thing/ http://bobsacha.com/2009/02/17/do-1-thing/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:39:37 +0000 bob sacha http://bobsacha.com/2009/02/17/do-1-thing/ Do 1 Thing is an initiative started by Najlah Fenny Hicks and Pim Van Hemmen to help homeless teens. Over ]]> Do 1 Thing is an initiative started by Najlah Fenny Hicks and Pim Van Hemmen to help homeless teens. Over 25,000 adolescents age out of the foster care system each year in the United States. 40% of these teens will become homeless.

On Valentine’s Day 2009 they organized a massive photoshoot at the Covenant House in several states. Here’s Shaniqua, one girl I met at Covenant House in New York City.

This is also my first very humbling attempt to create a soundtrack using garage band.

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