17 brave souls joined us for a week-long intensive video storytelling workshop last week. The workshop is part of the University of North Carolina’s annual “Multimedia Bootcamp” week. We cram a lot into this week, spending the first day or so discussing the foundations of powerful storytelling, becoming familiar with basic video and audio techniques, …
National Geographic is featuring an excerpt of the film we’re editing and producing with director Chad Stevens. The brief excerpt focuses on the personal story of one woman, Lorelei Scarboro, and her fight to save her community by building a wind farm on Coal River Mountain, which Massey Energy is set to destroy through mountaintop …
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Rob Rosenthal, of Transom Story Workshop, Erika Lantz, of PRX Remix, and Rebecca Sheir, host of Metro Connection, offered some great audio advice for filmmakers in the Radio Matters session at the 2014 Media that Matters conference at the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University. Here’s our round up of the top …
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Working from DC today before we head to the Media That Matters conference at American University.
The other day I went to a great informal workshop by Elisabeth Haviland James and John Biewen at the Southern Documentary Fund about finding and using archival footage in documentary work. They shared this Indiewire article as a quick guide for finding and using archival footage. Here are the top three tidbits I took away from their talk: 1) Hire a professional …
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We’re excited to have Evgenia Arbugaeva at the Center for Documentary Studies this week. Sometimes I forget what it was like to be a carefree kid, but Evgenia’s Tiksi photos take me back to that time.
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University offers courses in photography, video, audio, and writing through their undergraduate, MFA, and continuing studies programs. Elena is currently an instructor in the undergraduate program teaching a class called Multimedia Documentary to both undergraduate and MFA students.
