Illinois Best of Multimedia 2008 professional & student contest winners
Multimedia Portfolio of the Year
1st - Christopher Booker, Chicago Tribune (Portfolio pieces: one, two, three, four)
2nd - Emily Rasinski, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Portfolio pieces: one, two, three, four)
Pro Individual Multimedia Project
1st - Mark R. Welsh, Daily Herald, “Last Letters Home”
2nd - Christopher Booker, Chicago Tribune, “Lollapalooza in the Round”
Pro Individual Video Piece
1st - Danielle Guerra, Northwest Herald, “Jeff’s Last Delivery”
2nd - Wes Pope, Chicago Tribune, “An enduring war remembered”
3rd - Emily Rasinski, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Goodbye Gundlach”
HM - Valerie Tobias, Northwest Herald, “Kids get out the vote’
HM - Christopher Booker, Chicago Tribune, “Malachi the Mighty“
Pro Individual Slide Show
1st - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Straight Time”
2nd - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Liberia’s Forgotten Champions”
3rd - Emily Rasinski, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “A camp with heart”
HM - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Liberia: Child Soldiers”
Pro Team Slide Show
1st - Todd Mizener & The Dispatch, “Rock River flooding”
2nd - Chris Walker & The Chicago Tribune, “Photo essay: Joy and sorrow in 2008″
HM - Matt Grotto, Southtown Star, “Laborers of the Night”
Pro Team Video piece
1st - Scott Strazzante & MediaStorm, “Common Ground”
2nd - Christopher Booker & The Chicago Tribune, “Trump Tower: 92 stories in just over two minutes”
3rd - Heather Eidson, The Beacon News, “A Flight to Remember”
Pro Team Multimedia Project
1st - Brian Hill & The Daily Herald, “NIU, Return, Remember, Recover”
2nd - Danielle Guerra, Northwest Herald, “Tragedy on Campus”
HM - Danielle Guerra, Northwest Herald, “Do Your Job”
Student Slide Show
1st - Emily Sunblade, Southern Illinois University, “Cache River”
2nd - Jody Warner, Columbia College Chicago, “Will Whedbee - making beautiful music”
3rd - Patrick Traylor, University of Illinois, “Therepy Riding”
Student Video & Multimedia
HM - Patrick Traylor, University of Illinois, “Fighting for Life”
HM- Patrick Traylor, University of Illinois, “Jordbruksdagarna”
Special thanks to:
- Think Tank Photo for sponsoring the Multimedia Portfolio of the Year winner prize!
- Our multimedia contest judges:
Think Tank Photo sponsors iBOM
Think Tank Photo has signed on to support the IPPA and the Illinois Best of Multimedia contest. Select winners in the iBOM will receive camera bags donated by the company.
Plus, we have been added to their affiliate program. When you shop for a bag, go to thinktankphoto.com/affiliate and enter code AP-279 — you will get a free bag with every order over $50, and part of your purchase will come back to the IPPA.
Thanks to Think Tank Photo for their generous sponsorship!
Emmy Award-winner, Dai Sugano, speaking at the IPPA - WNPA convention
Dai Sugano is an Emmy Award winning photojournalist and senior multimedia editor at the San Jose Mercury News. He co-created MercuryNewsPhoto.com whose interactive story telling has been judged among the world’s best two years in a row in the Pictures of the ear International contest. Sugano covers wide range of assignments which have included: Poverty in India, Hmong refugees’ immigration to the United States; the California Recall; former Japanese Internment camp survivors and number of stories in politics. In 2008, “Uprooted,” which looks at displacement of a group of mobile home residents in Sunnyvale, won an Emmy Award in New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries. His other work have been nominated for an Emmy Award and a Pulitzer Prize in photography; and have received international and national recognitions.
> Read more about the other speakers at the IPPA - WNPA convention
IPPA 2009 Multimedia Contest Rules & Entry Form
2009 Multimedia Contest Entry Form & Rules:
- The online entry form is available at the bottom of this post (Scroll down to enter, but please review the rules). Please make sure to scroll to click submit and wait for confirmation that your entry was received.
- Entrants must pay the IPPA contest entry fee. Forms are available here (PDF file, so right click and save or be patient).
- You may enter up to 10 pieces plus a multimedia portfolio (comprised of 5 pieces).
- Judges reserve the right to move an entry to a different category if it is entered wrong. When reasonably possible, please remove all branding, bylines and credits from the project.
- Entries must be submitted with a live URL that works. Entries that malfunction or don’t work will be disqualified.
- Questions or problems? Email ippa@ippaonline.com
Deadline Feb. 4 (extended!) Feb. 9, 2009
**** STUDENT CONTEST CATEGORIES ****
STUDENT - SLIDE SHOW:
Includes all student-produced slideshows and audio slideshows. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
STUDENT - VIDEO PIECE:
Includes all student produced video pieces. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
STUDENT - MULTIMEDIA PROJECT:
Includes all student produced multimedia projects. This could be a series of audio slideshows, a series of video pieces, a Flash project, panoramas, 3D renderings, holograms or any mix of these elements – anything goes. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
**** PRO CONTEST CATEGORIES ****
PRO - INDIVIDUAL SLIDE SHOW
Includes all single slideshows and single audio slideshows.
Entries must have been created by one individual and no others. We believe there is special merit in the extra work it takes producing a piece solo from start to finish. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
PRO - INDIVIDUAL VIDEO PIECE
Includes all single video pieces. Entries must have been created by one individual and no others. We believe there is special merit in the extra work it takes producing a piece solo from start to finish. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
PRO - INDIVIDUAL MULTIMEDIA PROJECT
Includes either of the following: a series of pieces or mixed online media experience. This could be a series of audio slideshows, a series of video pieces, a Flash project or any mix of these elements. Entries must have been created by one individual and no others. We believe there is special merit in the extra work it takes producing a piece solo from start to finish.
PRO - TEAM SLIDE SHOW
Includes all single slideshows and single audio slideshows. Entries will be created by more than one individual. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
PRO - TEAM VIDEO PIECE
Includes all single video pieces. Entries will be created by more than one individual.Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills. Entries must be submitted in working order on a CD or with a live URL that works. Entries that malfunction or don’t work will be disqualified.
PRO - TEAM MULTIMEDIA PROJECT
Includes either of the following: a series of pieces or mixed online media experience. Entries will be created by more than one individual. This could be a series of audio slideshows, a series of video pieces, a Flash project, panoramas, 3D renderings, holograms or any mix of these elements – anything goes. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
ILLINOIS MULTIMEDIA PORTFOLIO OF THE YEAR
Awarded to the individual producing the highest quality multimedia storytelling portfolio. Up to pieces may be entered and they may be of any variety or combination.
STUDENT & PRO ILLINOIS BEST OF MULTIMEDIA CONTEST ENTRY FORM:
Ready to enter? Just fill out the form below and click submit:
2009 IPPA IBOP, ISBOP and IBOM entry deadline set
The joint IPPA / WNPA conference is fast approaching and we’ve set Feb. 4, 2009 as the ‘must be mailed by’ deadlines for the:
- IPPA Illinois Best of Photojournalism (IBOP)
- IPPA Illinois Student Best of Photojournalism (ISBOP)
- IPPA Illinois Best of Multimedia (IBOM)
We have new IBOP and ISBOP chairs (Stacie Freudenberg for IBOP and René Edde for ISBOP) who are working on getting the rules/forms together as we speak. Will Sullivan is still at the helm of the IBOM contest, which will go completely digital this year and also add a new category — Multimedia Journalist of the Year — for, obviously, the crowning of the best multimedia portfolio in Illinois.
The contest entry forms, rules and more info will all be posted later this week here at IPPAonline.com. As always, we’re going to follow the NPPA BOP format for the most part, so once you finish your entries for their deadline on Jan. 30, you’ll have an easy time submitting your work to the IPPA.