Stock: What I Know
My experience entering the world of stock photography, an examination of the elements necessary, limitations of the exchange and the possible financial benefits.
Video Compression: How
The above is from the project I referenced before about the damage to Chile’s architectural heritage. It is set to be live today. Marcelo Bravo, an architect with the University of Chile, pauses to bless himself with holy water, as he passes the sanctuary during his inspection of Santa Filomena in the Patronato [...]
On music and fonts
The above photos are from a project I did about the beginning of school in Santiago – how both children and parents are coping. It has nothing to do with the rest of the post, but is fulfilling our always visuals rule. The post itself talks about an unpublished piece, which will not [...]
Chile Earthquake 4 – what the ocean took
This is the video that breaks my heart. This was the most destruction I saw of all the earthquake. The earthquake left much standing. The ocean was merciless. And these people, in this secluded town, did not receive any governmental help until Thursday – a load of clothing and food. [...]
Chile Earthquake, 3 – Day 2
We finished editing, as I noted in my previous post, at 7am. We returned to the wireless point Nacho had found at 3am. It no longer existed. We drove around a little looking for wireless, and, not finding any, we went to Radio Paloma – the only radio station in Talca. [...]
Reporting in disaster zones – Part 2
When communications fail it’s really hard to deliver your material to your contractors. Yes, digital media helps in capturing and editing material far faster than traditional media, but also consumes an enormous amount of power (laptop and camera batteries) and requires a steady data connection in order to transmit, which was non-existent at the time.
Power, [...]
The Chilean Earthquake, 1 – Challenges of a Disaster Zone
Last Saturday, at 3.37am, Chile was struck by a terrible earthquake. At the epicenter, the quake registered 8.8 on the Richter Scale, one of the 5 strongest earthquakes at least since 1922. By noon, Nacho and I had been flooded with requests for photos and or video. I was hired by the AP to shoot [...]
Result: Flipbooks Galore
So, what happened?
Nicolás Alcalde, from my second presidential project, and I met at the paper at 7, and arrived at the bus stop at 7.30. We began to search for someone going from there to the end of the future metro. We found an individual to follow fairly quickly – a middle aged woman. However, [...]
Laying Multimedia Plans
Santiago’s Metro is expanding. The government opened three new stations (conveniently, days before a tight presidential election) and announced about a week and a half ago that they would begin building an entirely new line, which will connect a heavily working class area of the city with a heavily middle and upper class section.
I was [...]
La Tercera: Project 2 – The Challenges the Candidates Face
I have a new project published in La Tercera. It is part two in my exploration of issues in the presidential elections in Chile. In this part, I examined access for people with disabilities, public transportation and access to affordable housing (vivienda). All of these stories were done with the production help of my collegue [...]
Master vs. Jack… Who am I?
And why is that title not SEO optimized?
The photo is from the third story in my next La Tercera series. The story is about living conditions or housing. This was taken in a small campamento in an area of Santiago called Renca. I will discuss the campamento and the story in a later post. Today [...]
On the bus, with the gear
I am doing another series on issues in the upcoming presidential elections. This time, the issues are people with disabilities(Nacho’s killer photo from yesterday,) living conditions, and transportation. Today I went to a bus depot at the far end of town. With a colleague, Nicolás Alcalde, I interviewed a bus driver. Then we rode with [...]
Elections and Remebering
My Spanish teacher told me that someone had presented one of the presidential candidates here with a great bag of raisins. According to Chilean lore, they are supposed to help you remember.
I’ve been working freelance for La Tercera, one of the major Chilean newspapers. They brought me in especially to produce multimedia projects. My first [...]
Fighting against the tides
Man, it’s been only 3 months, but really long ones.
On one side, I’m really happy to see my family and friends in regular basis but on the other it’s been so hard to make people realize the importance of multimedia usage.
There’s definitely a need for multimedia producers and they (the media industry)know they want multimedia [...]
Our blog needs a name
Our blog needs a name. It needs its own url. To have Nacho’s work under eileenmignoni.com, does a disservice to him. To buy a url, we need a name. We can’t decide on one. Multimedia in the Hyper South, I made up. Nacho says it’s too long. He’s [...]
The After Effects beat
This is an introduction I made for two videos that were produced by students at the Universidad de los Andes. I did the cut outs with photoshop and I animated them with After Effects. It was my first time working with After Effects. I went through the whole of the Lynda.com [...]
Stretching our photographic muscles
A few days after we arrived in Santiago, a friend asked us to take just a few stills of a small carnival that was going on in Santiago.
“Why not make a small multimedia piece about it?” we said, so this is the result. Just a couple of hours shooting, having fun and trying to work [...]