Richard Koci Hernandez on the Future of Visual Storytelling

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Slides to accompany a talk at the 2014 Journalism Interactive conference. Richard Koci Hernandez, of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, explores frontiers in visual journalism and reviews visual tools and strategies for teaching. Watch the full video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StbzJbXJTvA

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+HELLO

Richard Koci HernandezUc Berkeley graduate school of journalism

Assistant Professor New Media

I WAS BORN HERE

AGE: 42

GRADUATED

Almost became

worked for

NOW, i work here

!

Things are bad we can stay here and get the shit beat out of us

I will not go down that way I choose to fight back

I choose to rise not fall I know that what is within me is also with you

We can climb out of hell We meet our fate together

bigpicture

THE

What is it?

The Internet is not a dumping ground

for media created for other platforms

web = creative platform

It’s not a single canvas.

"We've now entered a phase in which visual communication is supplanting the written word – what some are calling the dawn of the ‘imagesphere.’ " ~Bob Lisbonne

In just one minute…

208,300 photos are posted to Facebook

510,000 photos are liked on Instagram

Posts with images drive up to 180% more engagement than those without.

Visual Journalism isn’t new

We have no idea what new piece of technology might launch that could change everything.

It’s better to have a bigger purpose and some firm beliefs to guide you, than it is to have a plan.

I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop. - Ansel Adams 1983

Forget the platform: The "elements of good

storytelling are eternal"

Skill Technique

CREATIVE APPROACH

PROBLEM SOLVINGCREATIVITY

Unrelenting Pursuit of PRACTICE

Manage CHANGE

NOT A Videographer

ReMIX

The FUTURE IS NOW

longevity

“Inside all of us is a visual storyteller waiting to emerge..”

DO NOT!LEAVE YOUR! LONGINGS!UNATTENDEDBE

“Make stories that wont go away. Make

your mark as only YOU can”

Every masterpiece starts with a single

brush stroke.

The edge, the secret sauce to mastery, is

not waiting for perfection, instead, start

where you are with reckless abandon.

Are you in or out?

FORM

What can story be?

The ancient art of storytelling is in need of some

modern clothing.

K I T N+ =+The narrative cannot be unaffected by technology. NEW

NARRATIVES are emerging.

~ADAM WESTBROOKfrom The Web Video Problem

~ADAM WESTBROOK from The Web Video Problem

I WANT to create journalists that THRIVE as technology gets FASTER.

Fearless by Avni Nijhawan

S h a r eDig DEEP

“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”   !

~Lou Holtz

JFDI-Just F’ing Do It