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“The View from the Field,” the featured public event of Show + Tell, will take place this Friday, March 4, 6–8 p.m.
Screening of Danny Wilcox Frazier’s Driftless, nominated for an Emmy for “New Approaches to News and Documentary,” and new multimedia work by Maisie Crow and Jesse Dukes
Panel discussion moderated by Amy O’Leary, news editor for the New York Times, with Danny Wilcox Frazier, Maisie Crow, and Jesse Dukes
The View from the Field
Media makers share their work and discuss the practical realities of doing multimedia work on the ground
Screening and Panel Discussion
Friday, March 4, 2011
6–8 p.m.
Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium
Show + Tell is an intensive three-day institute for photographers, writers, radio producers, editors, publishers and other media makers who want to improve their ability to make gripping multimedia content. This cross training is designed for those with experience in field documentation (audio, photo, or writing), digital editing, and story construction. Participants will learn fundamental skills in a new medium—photography or audio production. Using your new skills, we’ll then teach you to create strong, standalone multimedia work.
Storytelling for multimedia has its own parameters. You must find the right mix of tension and agreement, image and sound, story and stimulus. Show + Tell offers a rich combination of technical training, aesthetic approaches, and an exploration of industry trends. The course will be led by Big Shed, an award-winning audio and multimedia production and training group, along with other instructors and guests, including featured presenter, New York Times news editor Amy O’Leary.
Show + Tell: Multimedia Cross Training from Big Shed
Thursday–Sunday, March 3–6, 2011
Course fee: $650
FEATURED PRESENTER
Amy O’Leary is a news editor at The New York Times, where she edits online features and multimedia. In 2007, she was the first-ever audio producer hired by the Times, where her work has been nominated for three Emmy awards. Prior to that, she worked as a producer for public radio’s This American Life. As a freelancer, Amy has produced stories for Radio Lab, On The Media, Weekend America and Studio 360. She’s originally from Renton, Washington. Amy will be on hand throughout the training.
“Each form of storytelling has its own strengths, challenges and limitations. I see it frequently at The Times. A reporter experiments with a small audio project, and the possibilities start opening up in their mind. Shortly thereafter they begin to suggest new ideas for creative online treatments—everything from interactive features to user-generated projects. Branching out a little in one direction is often the first step towards thinking about new directions for journalism writ large. Learning new formats sharpens the senses, breaks us out of old routines and can make journalists see new opportunities to connect with their readers and audience. That’s the real payoff to multimedia training.“
- Amy O’Leary, New York Times Editor
Register for Show+Tell: Multimedia Cross Training from Big Shed here
See more courses at www.cdscourses.org
SO WHAT WILL I LEARN?
This is a cross training, designed to build on what you already know. Whatever your background, we’re going to teach you techniques and strategies in a new medium—skills for fieldwork and digital editing. Then we’ll teach you how to combine still photos and audio to create an audio slideshow. For your new medium, you can choose either photography or audio storytelling.
If you’re a photographer, we’ll teach you audio skills techniques. If your specialty is audio, we’ll teach you core photography skills and techniques. And if you’re coming from a different background—writing, editing, etc., you can choose either medium.
In workshops, you’ll develop new skills. In field exercises, you’ll put what you’ve learned to use, and during evening presentations, we’ll explore some of the larger issues surrounding this work. All of this towards your leaving the training with a working knowledge of the elements you need to plan and create topnotch multimedia stories.
TRAINING STAFF
Jesse Dukes has been working as a journalist since 2005, producing audio and multimedia stories for radio and the web. He also writes magazine articles. His radio work has aired on Studio 360, Weekend Edition and Day to Day and other national and regional radio programs. Print and multimedia work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and Global Post. When he isn’t working from his home in Charlottesville, VA, Jesse’s frequently on the road, reporting from places as far and wide as central Alaska, Downeast Maine, or Cairo, Egypt. Jesse joined the Big Shed team in 2009. (Audio + Multimedia)
Maisie Crow is a freelance photographer, videographer and multimedia producer based in New York City. In 2010 her multimedia project, A Life Alone, was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy, and she attended the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam. She has worked with MediaStorm, Save the Children, Robin Hood Foundation and Bread for the World. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Ian Parry Scholarship and the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Grant. Her multimedia work has been screened at LOOKbetween and the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism. (Photo + Multimedia)
Elena Rue is a multimedia storyteller who uses the camera as a tool for exploration and learning. As a 2006 Lewis Hine Fellow, Elena spent 10 months working with a non-governmental organization, Hope for Children, in Ethiopia. For three years she coordinated the Literacy Through Photography program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication where she was a 2010 News 21 Fellow and is currently a fellow with the Reese Felts Digital Newsroom. (Photo + Multimedia)
Jennifer Deer is a writer, performer, and audio producer living in North Carolina. Her work for radio has been aired on such nationally syndicated public radio programs as All Things Considered, Day to Day, Weekend Edition, and Weekend America. She co-founded Big Shed, an audio and multimedia production shop, where she co-curates their audio documentary podcast. Jennifer also teaches workshops in radio production at CDS. (Audio + Multimedia)
Shea Shackelford is an audio documentary producer and media educator. In 2009, he created The Place + Memory Project in partnership with NPR Weekend Edition—a public media project mapping a landscape of remembered places. In 2010, he won a Bronze for Best Documentary from the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Shea is a regular producer-in-residence at CDS. When he isn’t producing his own stories, Shea is assisting educators, organizations, artists and other producers in using sound and storytelling to spread their own ideas. Shea co-founded Big Shed with Jennifer Deer. (Audio + Multimedia)
For more information about specific workshops, gear, software, logistics and sample work, click here.