We’ve been watching this Creative Live course over our lunches recently. I just heard the above quote come out of Alex Blumberg’s mouth, and I love it. Finding the right person to be the subject of your video is one of the most crucial elements in producing a strong video. Often the default is to …
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Catherine will be judging the White News Photographers Association 2016 “Eyes of History” contest in the multimedia category. She joins fellow judges Evelio Contreras, a producer, shooter, and editor for CNN, and Rebecca Sell, a multimedia producer and photojournalist teaching at Ohio University. Open judging takes place at the National Geographic headquarters and museum in Washington …
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Thanks to the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and Seth Gitner for the nice feature in the November edition of News Photographer. And shout out to fellow UNC J-school alum Carolyn Van Houten and of course, the fabulous Chad Stevens, also featured in the edition. If you’re an NPPA member, check out the whole article. If you’re not, …
After the 2015 fall semester, Elena was recognized along with fellow CDS instructor Tim Tyson for having course evaluations among the top 5 percent of all undergraduate instructors at Duke. http://www.cdsporch.org/archives/25512
Photographer Latoya Ruby Frazier speaks to Madeliene Pron during her interview with the Fellows. Photo by Shelia Huggins It was a long and exhausting weekend, but Documentary 2015: Origins and Inventions was a success. Documentary 2015 was a national forum, hosted by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, celebrating documentary today. Eight outstanding …
This beautiful documentary about San Bernardino, CA, was released by the L.A. Times weeks before the recent shootings. It’s an intimate portrayal of an economically depressed place through the voices, and images of the people who are struggling there, and those who are working to help turn it around. Watch it for context, watch it …
When we present ourselves as a filmmaking duo, we are occasionally met with confusion. In the media world people are often working alone or as part of a larger team. For whatever reason, two-person teams are rare. You can imagine our delight when we got a chance to meet Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva (The …
We are thrilled to announce that we will be running a fellows program in conjunction with the 2015 Documentary forum being hosted by the Center for Documentary Studies. The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University will host a 25th Anniversary celebration and national forum on November 20–22, 2015, in Durham, North Carolina. Documentary 2015: …
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We love teaching this workshop. Through teaching a variety of video storytelling courses and workshops, we’ve found that often people get hung up on cameras, software, and all the technical aspects of producing videos (which is understandable, there’s a lot to remember!) The problem is, when you’re distracted by cameras, microphones, and editing software, you …
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We first came across Free Range Studio a few years back at the Media that Matters conference at the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University (a conference we highly recommend, by the way). Free Range gave a great presentation that broke down classic storytelling techniques in a creative, compelling, and innovative …