Vine: Storytelling in Six Seconds (or Less) | Flip the Media

I see a lot of movies. As a lifelong film geek and a current programmer for the Seattle International Film Festival, I?ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly (generally, as well as the Sergio Leone classic). Some are too long, others are thankfully brief, but they all employ classical film narrative techniques to some degree. The each utilize montage, point of view, and other tried and true filmmaking elements that we?ve all come to accept today as pretty standard. But back when these techniques were first introduced, they were all seen as startling breaks from the established norms.

For instance, Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov developed early theories on the effect of editing and the juxtaposition of images in sequence. His famous ?Kuleshov Effect? was an early example of the power of editing to imbue a sequence of images with meaning, forcing the audience to experience an emotion based on the context and order of the images presented.

In one of the most famous examples of montage, Sergei Eisenstein?s ?Odessa Steps? sequence from his film ?Battleship Potemkin?, we see firsthand the birth of the artful editing techniques that many of us may take for granted in the breakneck narrative speed of the latest blockbuster film at the multiplex. However, when ?Battleship Potemkin? was first released in 1925, it was an eye-popping (and heart-pounding) revelation to its original audience.

Though Moore?s Law may apply to many things, storytelling is not one of them. ?As the storytelling art has evolved, the pace of narrative innovation has most certainly slowed, save for the occasional novelty of Smell-o-Vision, 3D(!), or any number of the William Castle contrivances in the 1950s, leaving many of us wondering what?s next when it comes to storytelling in a visual medium.

Until?Vine, that is.

Traditionalists and Luddites, turn back now, because you?re about to see the future of filmmaking?in six seconds or less.

https://vine.co/v/b1LTZYhpUDn?(stickman fail)

https://vine.co/v/bJYZimYlZIx?(Jimmy Fallon gets deep)

https://vine.co/v/b19vewP6Qnu?(stop-motion sugar packets)

These are just a few of the experiments currently taking place on what may be the world?s most efficient storytelling engine. If you want to find more examples like these, just search Twitter for the hashtags #vine and #vinefavs and you will find a treasure trove of people struggling to find their voice in a very public, and often very revealing, way. But each of these six-second struggles moves us all a step closer to a collective understanding of the power of storytelling as a way of connecting with each other. Sure, we can?t all be experts like the crew at Pixar, but Vines (as they are called) provide a near real-time platform to play with narrative space, style and technique. Though crude, these are the storytelling pioneers of today.

Just as Kuleshov and Eisenstein took a nascent medium and turned it into a storytelling powerhouse (just think, without montage, moving pictures would be just that), ?Vinemakers? are exploring a similarly new medium (digital video) that will lay the groundwork for the next 20 years of storytelling technique and style. Far from going off the deep end of ?short attention span editing? that had everyone up in arms in the 1990s, Vine is forcing us to relearn the basics of story form and structure through the creation of digital microstories, leading to the birth of new storytellers, better stories and more engaged audiences.

Even with the simple and relatively cheap production and distribution tools currently offered via digital media, there has never been a more open and user-friendly storytelling platform than Vine. Combining the social connectivity of Instagram, the ubiquitousness of smartphone video cameras and the constraints of in-app authoring, Vine provides a remarkable outlet for creativity in and of the moment. Taking MCDM Director Hanson Hosein?s oft-quoted ?publish, then filter? mantra to new extremes, Vine is the digital tool that will introduce an entire generation of content creators to the magic of story in the most innovative and effective way possible: by sharing it with others.

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Source: http://flipthemedia.com/2013/02/vine-storytelling-in-six-seconds-or-less/

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That's about half the U.S. troops currently in Afghanistan. The decision marks the next phase in Obama's plans to end the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

The person who provided the information did so on condition of anonymity to discuss the drawdown before the president's announcement.

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A court in Vietnam has sentenced a man to life in prison and given jail terms of up to 17 years to other defendants after they were found guilty of subversive activities, state-run Vietnam Television said on Monday.

The verdict follows a series of harsh punishments handed down for dissent in the communist-ruled country, at a time of reported political infighting among the leadership centered on how to reform the economy and tackle management problems at big state firms that have led to piles of bad debt.

The People's Court of Phu Yen province gave a life sentence to Phan Van Thu, head of a group that wanted to establish a new government in Vietnam, the television station said in a news bulletin.

Jail terms of between 12 and 17 years were handed to others in the case, the television station said without elaborating.

"Their action has seriously violated the laws," it said.

People's Police newspaper, which is run by the Public Security Ministry, said Thu and others had built up their forces in a tourist resort in the central province of Phu Yen from 2004, printing a number of anti-government documents until they were arrested in February 2012.

Thu had spent time in prison for anti-government activities in the late 1970s, the newspaper said.

In January, 13 political activists were found guilty of anti-state crimes and sentenced to prison, a ruling condemned by rights activists as part of a crackdown on dissidents.

Late last month, police arrested human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan in Hanoi after he wrote an article criticizing the Communist Party, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2013 published on Friday.

"The Vietnamese government is systematically suppressing freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, and persecuting those who question government policies, expose official corruption, or call for democratic alternatives to one-party rule," the rights group said in its report.

The government has made no comment on the report.

Among other cases, on January 24 security forces detained a blogger in the northern province of Hung Yen and took him to a mental institution, according to a letter to Vietnam's leaders from the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights.

Last week, the authorities deported Nguyen Quoc Quan, a U.S. national of Vietnamese origin, after keeping him in prison without trial since April last year.

Quan was accused of subversion and of being a member of Viet Tan, an outlawed pro-democracy group based in the United States, Communist Party newspaper Nhan Dan said.

Quan's trial, scheduled for January 22, was dropped and he was freed on January 30, the Viet Tan group said.

(Writing by Alan Raybould; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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JAL wants to talk compensation with Boeing

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Japan Airlines Co Ltd said it will talk to Boeing Co about compensation for the grounding of the 787 Dreamliner, adding that the idling of its jets would cost it nearly $8 million from its earnings through to the end of March.

The carrier, which operates seven of the 50 Dreamliners in service around the world, said robust demand on European, North American and Southeast Asian routes would help offset the impact of the 787's grounding, and it increased its annual operating profit forecast by almost 13 percent.

"Rather than negotiations with Boeing, the important thing now is getting the 787 flying again safely as soon as we can," said JAL's president Yoshiharu Ueki. "However, when the situation has settled down we can and are preparing to begin those talks."

Rival All Nippon Airways, which has more 787s than JAL, said last week it would seek compensation from Boeing once the amount of damages was clearer.

JAL raised its operating profit forecast to 186 billion yen ($2 billion) for the year to end-March, from a previous estimate of 165 billion yen. It predicted the impact on its earnings from the grounding of the technologically advanced Dreamliner at around 700 million yen for the rest of this fiscal year.

All Boeing's 787s are out of action as investigators in Japan and the United States try to find the cause of two recent incidents with the plane's lithium-ion batteries - a battery fire on a JAL 787 at a U.S. airport and an emergency landing by another plane on a domestic ANA flight after battery problems triggered a smoke alarm.

U.S. officials said late last week they were making progress in their investigation into the battery fire at Boston airport.

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