Register for the free “Design Yourself” webinar, storytelling edition, we’re co-hosting (December 5, 1-2 p.m. EST). When Elena and I were first considering launching our own business, we heard a lot of warnings from other creatives about how much of your time goes to working on the business itself. They would say this in a …
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 …
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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By popular demand, we will be teaching a one-day workshop on Video Storytelling for Social Change at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University this spring! Video is everywhere, but effective storytelling is rare. How can people working on social change issues use video stories to connect to a target audience on an emotional level? …
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What do you get when you take 20 video workshop participants from across the country (and Canada), 5 coaches (plus one fearless leader), 20 story ideas (including THREE with chickens as central characters), and put them in a room full of fun-sized Snickers in Kentucky for five days? Camp for grown ups. I know, it’s …
Heading to the mountains to video-coach the heck out of some great storytellers at The Mountain Workshops
If you’re looking to get your feet wet in the field of multimedia storytelling, join us next month for a workshop at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. We’ll show you the basics to get you started on the path to creating your own powerful narratives. Learn more and register on the Center …
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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, …
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.