Corduroy Media produces original multimedia content for TIME Magazine’s online news site, TIME.com. Stories include yoga in prison, The Mavericks Surf Competition, tea party protests, and homeless college students. TIME comes to Corduroy Media because our team has the capability to produce editorial style portraits for print and original narrative video stories for web while on one assignment. Our unique approach to the craft of visual storytelling keeps viewers engaged and educated.
We produce short form, documentary style narrative videos and still photography from our base in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our assistant director, Sean Donnelly, approached TIME with a great story on a yoga program inside California’s largest jail, San Quentin State Prison. We produced a moving video that told the story through the eyes of an inmate. Our team followed our subject, Anthony Alford, through life in the dorms, strip searches, vocational training, and of course, his yoga class. We also shot moving portraits that captured the unique theme of attempting to obtain peace amidst a dark past. In the middle of post-production, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that California must reduce its prison population by 25%. All of a sudden, our story was associated with breaking news. With an already tight deadline moved up, we worked through the night to get our video and photos out to TIME so their news magazine was able to offer its clients a unique feature among the saturation of breaking news.
