Nail THIS to the door!
We don’t need videographers. And we don’t need more still photographers.
We need more journalists. Put simply, we need storytellers.
Care to hear more?
Do we really need another blog post about the end of newspapers or still photography, or quality vs quantity, P&S vs a Sony V1U, just SHUT UP and go out [...]
Nail THIS to the door!
We don’t need videographers. And we don’t need more still photographers.
We need more journalists. Put simply, we need storytellers.
Care to hear more?
Do we really need another blog post about the end of newspapers or still photography, or quality vs quantity, P&S vs a Sony V1U, just SHUT UP and go out there and tell stories.
Use what you have, a still camera, a video camera, a Holga, even a pencil and paper and tell me a Damn story! PLEASE!
Nobody cares what you or I think about the future, but everybody loves and desires good stories.
So what if video is the flavor of the day. Guess what, nobody really cares. Get over it! Embrace it or not, just stop whining about it!
Stop demonizing video. Choose Respect. Your goal should not be to hold on to dear life to the process you know, but to be open and respectful to those who might choose a different path. Remember we all have the same destination……a good story.
Don’t overthink!
We are living in unprecedented times—exciting, challenging and
anything but predictable.
Read the Metamorphoses, then have one yourself!
Stop seeing risk as a negative act.
Swim upstream!
Think in fluid non-linear ways.
Tweak, deploy, create!
Do it While you Can Before you have To, Kate Trgovac
The bottom line is that you simply cannot afford to be in the chasing pack (the ones that have to). You need to be in the while-you-can clan. You’ve been given an unprecedented array of bold, new approaches, alternatives to the tried-and-tested, and arguably staid mainstream outlets.
Along the way, you’re going to make mistakes—plenty of them—but make sure you make the good kind of mistakes, as opposed to the bad kind.
Good mistakes are the kinds of mistakes you learn from, the kind you get smarter from as a result. Joseph Jaffe’s, Life After the 30-Second Spot
Finally,
“ It’s what I’ve never seen before that I recognize.”
Photographer Diane Arbus
p.s.
Don’t shoot the messenger!
3 Responses
“Think in fluid non-linear ways.”
Is my motto for the next week.
It’s not easy being a rebel.
Don’t shoot the messenger, indeed.
“Nobody cares what you or I think about the future, but everybody loves and desires good stories.”
Amen! We need more good stories about real experiences and way less pontificating about the future.
Thanks for the shout-out :)
Here are two dirty little secrets I’ve learned since joining the AV Club:
If you’re a mediocre story-teller, you can still be a pretty good photographer.
If you’re a mediocre story-teller, you’re going to be a BAD multimedia creator.
A lot of photographers are and have been “getting away” with less than stellar journalistic skills because they can shoot the hell out of a frame. When it comes to audio and video, that’s not enough.
Not nearly.
That’s scares the bejebus out of a lot of people, myself included.
As the staff guinea video pig, having the “holes in my game” exposed is scaring the #$#& out of me. However, seeing the very freaking cool things that can be done by joining the AV Club is balancing that out. (Or so I tell myself between shots of Petrone and nervous drags on a bummed Camel…)
As the commercial goes…
Video camera with Ungodly Learning Curve…$4000
Final Cut Pro with Ungodly Learning Curve….$1200
Book on Final Cut Pro for Ungodly Learning Curve….$50
Chance to possibly go all Soderberg on their asses….priceless.
Go forth and conquer…if you can.