Fabiola Ruvalcaba from Josh Meltzer on Vimeo.
My friend, Miguel Martinez, a photographer at the Spanish language paper Mundo Hispánico in Atlanta, Georgia, was here for a week visiting family in his native Guadalajara, and he asked me if we could have a little mini multimedia workshop while he was here. He’s pushing the envelope at his paper to include some multimedia on their website and was hungry to learn more.
So, while here we worked for two very long days and evenings on a short story about Fabiola Ruvalcaba, a partially blind Judo star, who won the silver medal at the 2008 Paraolympic Games in Beijing this past summer. We shot a short interview and photographed her at the gym and at home to quickly put together this video story.
It was a great experience for both Miguel, who returned I think feeling very encouraged to try more multimedia at his paper, and for me, getting another opportunity to edit and work in Spanish more. We basically ran out of time to edit the video shorter, which it needs to be, but it was an experiment and a great start for Miguel.
