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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We just got back from the 2014 Media that Matters conference at the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University. I came away with pages of notes, and was particularly inspired by the Design for Impact session. Caty Borum Chatoo (the fantastic media impact researcher, documentary producer and professor) puts it like this, …
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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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