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Author: Hanson Hosein

  • Loaded for Bear

    We’re clearly in the middle of a content production arms race. Even as Hollywood champions new technologies to differentiate itself from the YouTube crowd, amateurs quickly raise their own standards, adopting new platforms and cameras to try and keep up. So what strategies should independent storytellers adopt?

  • If you’re doing exceptional work

    I’m presently listening to Brian Storm, my former MSNBC colleague and now multimedia storytelling visionary through his NYC-based production company, Media Storm.  We’re both presenting at the Visual Journalism Bootcamp on Whidbey Island in Washington. He does powerful work — we just watched an excerpt from Unintended Consequences — the children born of rape after…

  • Detroit: the film

    For the last two years, I’ve been considering a documentary film about community attempts to resurrect Detroit.  It first occurred to me when interviewing a food security specialist in New Orleans for my Rising From Ruins film, who said that her post-Katrina city was doing great work, but Detroit was the nation’s leader in this…

  • Influence and persuasion in a YouTube world

    A call today from a local TV talk show producer looking to book me as a tech “expert”, alerted me to YouTube’s 5th birthday today (here’s my segment).  I wish I had known about the video streaming site’s public beta test back in May 2005 — at that same time, I was struggling to compress,…