Multimedia Projects – Page 2

Out (Spoken)

Hector (aka Lohan Addict) is an 18-year-old high school student who is crazy about making movies for an internet audience. He also happens to be openly gay. He uses his camera to bring attention to the difficulties and discrimination out gay teens like him face in school and the rest of the world. This video piece explores why he’s compelled to make media that tackles important social issues, despite the risks he faces from being so outspoken.

This piece was originally produced for Chicago Public Media.

All still images in this piece created and curated by Shauna Bittle.

A Radio Station in the Barbershop

Here is a sneak peak of the finished barbershop piece! I am pleased with it, especially given it was my first foray into video/multimedia production since college. When I was in college I considered it a flaw that my “video” pieces were more like radio pieces with still shots (and poorly executed animation…never did learn Flash like I wanted). This was before the days of the audio slide show genre, made great by my new obsession, MediaStorm. Now I’m pretty psyched to be creating pieces that are driven by a marriage of audio narrative, video and still images.

If you can, I recommend watching the video in full screen mode, so you can see how gorgeous Shauna’s photographs are.

Candid Shot

Fun shot of me shooting video of Hector in downtown Chicago. Don’t I look glamorous? Photo by Shauna Bittle.

More Barbershop

The barbershop project continues. I’ve been back twice more now to shoot b-roll, take a lot of still shots (which I plan to “animate” and set to music) and to interview Bert. On Saturday I was joined by the awesome and talented Siri Bulusu, who I learned has a great eye for photography. She also took some cool behind-the-scenes type candid shots of me filming. Here are some of them.

Bert is never without his blue tooth.

Barber Dan’s feet in the foreground. I learned that he’s been at Carter’s pretty much since the beginning, and came to Chicago from Greenville, Mississippi in 1954. Wow. Talk about old school.

This is Farah, age 30, who has been coming to the barbershop since he was 2 years old. He boasted that percentage wise, he thinks he’s been coming here longer than anyone else. (A claim some of the other customers loudly contested.)

And here’s Siri, photographing Bert with a customer! Thanks Siri! You’re invaluable. And of course, thanks as always to Bert & co.