Read more about the article MediaStorm Accepting Fall Internship Applications Through July 15th

MediaStorm Accepting Fall Internship Applications Through July 15th

We’re currently accepting applications for our Fall 2014 internship. If you’re motivated, highly organized, and passionate about multimedia, we’d love to hear from you. The internship generally runs from September to December, but start dates are flexible. We’re looking for applicants with experience in multimedia production, design, motion graphics, and/or web development. Internships are paid. How to Apply All applications must be submitted through our online application form. Applicants should be prepared to supply: Links to pieces produced/collaborated on (please indicate role in each) Available start/end dates Hours/week available Applications are due July 15, 2014. Frequently Asked Questions Trying to decide if you should apply? Here are answers to the most frequently asked questions we get from applicants. What will I be doing as a Mediastorm intern? This is a production internship. You will be working closely with the MediaStorm team to produce multimedia projects. This means full days in front of…

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Read more about the article MediaStorm Announces Post-production Workflow for Premiere Pro

MediaStorm Announces Post-production Workflow for Premiere Pro

Here it is: a year-and-a-half after our big switch from Final Cut 7 to Premiere Pro, we are proud to announce the release of MediaStorm’s Post-production Workflow for Adobe Premiere Pro. In more than 150 steps, you’ll learn to organize and edit your projects with the same proven efficiency we’ve used time and again–we focus on organizing first so that creativity is not hampered once editing begins. This workflow is a complete guide to working in Premiere Pro: from importing material through final output and archiving. The underlying principal of the MediaStorm process is elimination. Whether it be pictures, interviews or b-roll, our guiding rationale is to save the good stuff and take away the rest. These steps emphasize the importance of making a copy of your work at each stage so that should you need to access previously discarded material, you have a clear and quick path back to needed material.…

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Read more about the article Now Playing on MediaStorm: Japan’s Disposable Workers for Pulitzer Center

Now Playing on MediaStorm: Japan’s Disposable Workers for Pulitzer Center

We are pleased to present Japan’s Disposable Workers, a film series produced in collaboration the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Based on Shiho Fukada’s portrait series, the film explores the labor issues affecting Japan in three sections, to illustrate the larger global labor crisis at work.  Overworked to Suicide After the recession of the 1990s, Japan’s white collar salarymen increasingly must work arduous hours for fear of losing their jobs. Working essentially two shifts a day for weeks at a time leads frequently to feelings of depression, something that is still stigmatized in Japan.   Net Cafe Refugees Internet cafes have existed in Japan for over a decade, but in the mid 2000s, customers began using these spaces as living quarters. Internet cafe refugees are mostly temporary employees, their salary too low to rent their own apartments.   Dumping Ground Kamagasaki, Osaka, Japan used to be a thriving day laborer’s town. Today, it is home…

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Thoughts on Limitations

Last month, I spoke at the The Image Deconstructed workshop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Also there was Sara Naomi Lewkowicz discussing her powerful series of photographs, Shane and Maggie. After her presentation, I asked, “How do you start a new project knowing that it probably will never match the caliber of this series?” She said, “I have to accept the fact that the best work of my career may already be done.” It was an incredibly honest and graceful response. Her best work may already be completed, and yet here she is, still fighting against the odds to do better each time. For me, there’s a great lesson: not simply that every project can’t be a bases-loaded-out-of-the-park-home-run but rather the underlying implication–that every time we pick up a camera or sit down to edit, we are fighting against the limitations of both the work in front of us and our own natural…

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