The Champ Reels Vlogs

One extreme pleasure about being here to judge the NPPA multimedia contest is meeting some really great new people, re-connecting with a few old ones and learning more than I ever expected. Fellow judge heather powazak champ has this great site with 10 seconds 'narratives' that are a great inspiration to me both visually and [...]

One extreme pleasure about being here to judge the NPPA multimedia contest is meeting some really great new people, re-connecting with a few old ones and learning more than I ever expected. Fellow judge heather powazak champ has this great site with 10 seconds 'narratives' that are a great inspiration to me both visually and a great reminder aboout hw lng 'time' can be and how important tight editing can be. No, it's not 'journalism,' but it is inspirational, and you should know me by now, I believe we can find inspiration for our visual journalism in many 'non-traditional' places.

Something I learned from heather during the judging and promised to pass on:

Five fonts that make people cry:

Brush Script (there's no such thing as "retro" high tech)
Comic Sans (never ever ever ever ever ever!)
Papyrus (not even for your trip to Greece)
Pixie (nothing is that fun)
Zapfino (it will never look like flowing handwriting, even if animated)

-heather powazek champ

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JPG magazine-The Magazine of Brave New Photography is worth a look and a subscription.

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A blog with video work from Mike De Sisti, a photojournalist at The Post-Crescent in Appleton, Wis. In addition to covering daily assignments for the newspaper, he produces short video essays and slideshows for the Web. A site to explore (especially the archives) and learn from, De Sisti is a solid, consistent, funny and sometimes risky video journalist.

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