Photo Audio Story Telling....

I’ve for a long time been frustrated with the concept of the full length video. It’s so hard to produce good video, yet it can be incredibly powerful as a medium.

So one solution is the slide show style photo montage with a voice over. Augustin and the Testimonios collective in Uruguay did an incredible piece about the Classificadores, the people who make a living by collecting and sorting trash to find things to sell. It’s easy to produce and powerful. The combination of photos and audio is powerful.

It’s something which would be an important tool to provide for indymedia, radical story telling which is easy to produce, but incorporates rich media. Today i came across a wonderful example of this style in Inner City Youth – London great. They’ve also got one about the us mexico border which incorporates more music and faster transitions. I think it’s custom produced flash, but the output could be flash, quicktime, keynote, a DVD, etc…..