Op-Videos are short-form mixed-media essays about current public affairs.
POV Hackathon: Know Your Hackers, “Op-Video”
Posner works at the intersection of documentary film, motion design and music. His work as a mixed-media director has appeared in Newsweek, The Daily Beast and APM: Marketplace, and he has contributed motion design to several documentary feature films.
Vo is a multi-platform journalist currently producing infographics, videos and animations for The Wall Street Journal and NPR’s Planet Money. She is an instructor in multimedia and data journalism and has spoken at conferences and universities around the world.
POV: Could you explain the project that you’re working on?
Joe Posner: For the past year I’ve been making these things I call Op-Videos. It’s a translation of the op-ed columns that I grew up with into a web video. I work with a writer, I interview them and add a lot of context and illustration via hand drawn illustration and music. I started with one that I made on my own, and since then Newsweek and The Daily Beast have asked me to make them there. I worked on feature-length documentaries before, and I loved working on docs. It was...
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POV Hackathon: Know Your Hackers, “Op-Video” | POV Films Blog | PBS
LINK: http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/povdocs/2012/08/pov-hackathon-know-your-hackers-joe-posner-op-video/
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