After Effects Workflow at The New York Times
The use of motiongraphics/animation is still pretty new at The New York Times. We’re still figuring things out, but I thought it might be useful to some to see what our work flow is like.
About: Zach Wise
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Zach Wise is currently a multimedia producer for the New York Times. Before coming to the Times, Wise was the senior multimedia producer for the Las Vegas Sun. He oversaw the implementation of multimedia in terms of workflow, presentation and technology. He was also a multimedia storyteller for the Sun who shot and produced stories in multiple formats ranging from video to panoramas. Before coming to the Sun, Wise was a visiting professor in the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University teaching multimedia development and production. While teaching at Ohio University, he was the executive producer on the award winning Soul of Athens multimedia project and taught the classes that produced it. Wise holds a master's degree in photojournalism from the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University and won several CPOY awards for his multimedia photojournalism projects there. In 2005, he won the Gold 2005 Horizon Interactive Award for "Spit It, Quit It". In 2006 he was awarded Yahoo! site of the day (May 2006) for Losing Louisiana: Land Loss on the Coast, which was also a featured site on BBC Science and won the Talking Hands Award. Zach also runs the digitalartwork site.
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Posts by Zach Wise
Recent Video Work for The New York Times
More video work for The New York Times using the Canon 5D Mark II camera.
Lessons Learned Shooting with the Canon 5D Mark II
We interviewed about 50 people for the piece but could only use a fraction of them, and how to sync audio with 5D Mark II footage
Behind the Scenes of LENS
A few people have been asking me how the LENS Blog on The New York Times site came to be and what software it was built on. I thought I’d shed a little light on the development process and answer some of these questions.
[LENS] (aka Lens) Launches
The New York Times introduces Lens, a photojournalism blog that intends to present some of the most interesting visual and multimedia reporting.
Some long photos from NYC
Some test footage from my new 5D MKII taken near Columbus Circle and also 34th Street.
Thirst in the Mojave
Thirst in the Mojave tries to bring a little more web mentality to video but still utilize the linear narrative strengths that make video such a great storytelling tool.
Family Christmas on a Canon 5D MKII
I just got the new Canon 5D MKII in my hands before I left for Ohio to spend Christmas with my family.
Coolris and Flickr make an easy Photowall
The Wall Street Journal used the new Cooliris flash embed for it’s Year in Pictures. You can too.
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