A Mile Wide - Portfolio » Documentary Video http://amilewide.com/portfolio Rob Roberts - New Media Journalist Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:24:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Madison County Project http://amilewide.com/portfolio/madison-county-project-excerpt/ http://amilewide.com/portfolio/madison-county-project-excerpt/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 00:26:41 +0000 rob http://amilewide.com/portfolio/?p=17

About: Madison County Project is a documentary film and companion web site that explores the ballad singing tradition in western North Carolina and the documentary photographers, filmmakers, and folklorists who documented that tradition. In this excerpt from the film, filmmaker and musicologist John Cohen remembers his visits to the mountains.

Awards: Audience Choice Award, Asheville Film Festival, 2005, Official Selection, Northwest Folk Festival, OpenApp Film Festival, Piedmont Film Festival, 2005-06, Cratis D. Williams for outstanding student work, North Carolina Folklore Society, 2005

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About: This video was part of the Great Eight 2007 package. The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a Durham-based band that plays old-time music. We met them at the Wilson Library for a photo shoot. Afterward, they gave us an impromptu performance that blew us away. The video has become one of the most popular old-time music clips on YouTube.

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About: This video was part of the annual Great Eight project. I was one of two shooters on the video and the primary editor. The club where the band performed was lit by a single bulb, so we improvised and decided to shoot the video in black-and-white. Given the band’s neo-folk style, the decision turned out to be a good one.

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About: This short video was produced for the multimedia documentary project Chiloe Stories. Produced with two Chilean students with no previous video experience, the video examines an effort to preserve the native language of a small island off the coast of Chile. While only a handful of native speakers of Huilliche remain, a school in the village of Molulco is revitalizing interest in the next generation.

You can also read about the Chiloe Stories project.

]]> http://amilewide.com/portfolio/songs-of-hope/feed/ 0 Great Eight 2008 http://amilewide.com/portfolio/great-8-2008/ http://amilewide.com/portfolio/great-8-2008/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 23:57:16 +0000 rob http://amilewide.com/portfolio/?p=5 Great Eight 2008About: Great 8 2008 is the latest installment of the News & Observer’s annual list of eight bands to watch in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. What began as a purely print product has transformed into a showcase of our best multimedia. We have upped the ante for the project each year and have helped our site reach a non-newspaper audience.

Specs: Videos were shot in HDV and edited in Final Cut Pro. The interface was built in Flash CS3 and Actionscript 2 with assets loaded dynamically with XML. Videos were presented with a full-screen display option.

Awards: NPPA 1st Place (Multimedia), Feb. 2008

Roles: Multimedia Producer, Programmer, Videographer, Editor

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