Meanwhile…in Short Creek
September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Until I get a chance to blog about yesterday’s trip to Short Creek, here’s the slideshow.
http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/2007/0920jeffs/index.html
Crandall Canyon Mine - Gary Jensen Funeral MM
August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I put together a slideshow from Gary Jensen’s funeral. The audio track I edited from the service is very simple (you have to keep things simple when you’re working 17-hour days). From an hour of material, I only used a hymn and a quote from Jensen’s son Robert, recorded at the service.
There were a lot of great things said by the friends and family. My notes were riddled with stars, noting the quotes I wanted to use. But in editing, nothing was more powerful than Robert’s statement, which he made as he and his brother and sisters made tributes to their father. It’s better heard than written. When you hear his voice, you realize he’s speaking right from the heart.
For the record, here’s what he said:
“Whether it be through his belief in his faith, whether it be a mine rescue, whether it be just in the community, the Jaycees, the little league wrestling, the little league programs the he did for the kids, the programs he started that affected so many in the valley that I’m surprised by or just the words when you’re in the mine and you have a problem and he’s there to lend you a hand to help you, my father lived for the people and he died for the people, and he will be remembered by all of us as one who lived that principle that every man, regardless of who you are, every woman regardless of who you are, every child deserves to be respected, deserves to be loved, and deserves to be appreciated.
He died in tragedy but he’ll be remembered as a blessing to everyone of our lives. and I swear this, I believe it, and I look upon you guys and I see it. I thank you so much for the family for all the support you’ve done. And I say this in the name of my Savior, amen.”
Here’s the link to the multimedia: http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/gibbsfuneral/index.html
Crandall Canyon Coal Mine Collapse
August 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
Just came off four busy days covering the efforts to rescue six trapped miners in the Crandall Canyon coal mine outside of Huntington, Utah. I’m thoroughly exhausted, and can only imagine how the rescue teams who have been working nonstop for nearly a week feel.
A lot more to say and photographs to show about the story, and it’s still unresolved. Let’s hope those guys are okay, that there’s a miracle. It seems that in the coverage it’s easy to forget the six men at the center of it.
I did two multimedia pieces on the story last week. Click the links below or click the photos to watch the pieces.
The Moving Wall
August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This week, The Moving Wall, a half-size replica of the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial (with its 58,000+ names) was on display in Provo. We decided to pull another multimedia daily out of it. You can click the photo above to watch it.
I talked to (and recorded) a few veterans before realizing that the audio was unusable. I shouldn’t have expected these men to recount their stories of war and loss to a stranger with a recorder. They did their best. One man told me about his best friend who died in Vietnam. He then thanked me and walked off in tears.
Gerald Hubbard, a volunteer at the site, told me his story of healing at the wall. I boiled down that interview into a short multimedia piece.
Here is the link: http://extras.sltrib.com/not_in_print/themovingwall/index.html
The Release of the iPhone
August 1, 2007 | 1 Comment
What’s it now, a month ago that I covered the release of Apple’s iPhone?
I put together a multimedia piece on the event, trying to capture the fun insanity of the Apple fanboys and girls. It was done on deadline, and not the newspaper’s deadline. A much tighter deadline: It was my anniversary and my wife was waiting for me at the restaurant. I would much rather keep an editor waiting than my wife.
The point of this post isn’t everything I’ve just said. It’s really about multimedia and the creative process. The package I put together on deadline had some cool ideas, but over the past four weeks I kept thinking about it, knowing I didn’t achieve everything I’d wanted out of it.
I started working on version 2.0, and I’m going to give you links to both versions. The second one is a huge improvement, though I’ll admit that as soon as I’d finished it I realized that there were still obvious changes that needed to be made. But I’m letting it go. I mean, how often to I go back and re-shoot an assignment from last month because I got an idea of how to do it better? Actually, never.
Here’s the first version that was posted 90 minutes after the event: http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/iphone/
And here is version 2.0. If you’re only going to watch one, this is it (click on the image below):
