Grunnkurs i multimedia med Bob Sacha

Workshoppen vil foregå i Oslo sentrum fra kl 10-17 hver dag.

Bob underviser ved flere anerkjente workshop senter og skoler rundt om i verdenen, og betraktes som en av de bedre foreleserne i multimedia. Workshoppen vil foregå på engelsk og Bob beskriver den slik:

Multimedia storytelling has opened up a whole new world of opportunities for photographers. Using a still camera and digital recorder, you can now create and share stories that we once only imagined. As a student of this class you will learn that adding audio, in the form of ambient sounds and interviews, to your images, is the simplest, quickest, and most powerful way to make photo-stories more compelling for the web viewer. You will learn how to use the power of sound to amplify the impact of our images and stories, to give them depth and texture and resonance. The power of the still image is still the key, but we’ll learn how to combine images, sound, motion and text together to increase the impact of our still photography and to create a new kind of story that we can share online. Each person will record, photograph and create a short multimedia presentation in the class.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
We’ll start by studying and discussing examples of successful stories that use great images and strong audio.

Next step is sound, and we will learn that the key to multimedia storytelling is strong audio. We will look at what kind of recorder and microphone to use, how to listen for for great sound, how to record “clean” sound, how to conduct an interview with a person, what makes a powerful audio track, and finally how to edit our sound. We’ll record sounds and interviews and practice editing. We’ll also learn how to mix sound and music together.

Next we’ll talk about making photographs for multimedia. While one perfect image stands out on a gallery wall or in the pages of a news paper, we’re conditioned to see fresh images constantly on our computer screen. We’ll talk about how to deliver a number of different kinds of images for a multimedia piece. We’ll talk about the types of images that work well in multimedia. And we’ll go out and capture them.

Back in class, we’ll edit our images and sounds together to create powerful multi-media stories, in the form of a slide shows with audio tracks and interviews. Finally, we will learn to quickly and easily upload polished projects online.

You’ll need your laptop (PC or MAc) and intermediate computer skills and a basic knowledge of an image editing program like Lightroom/ Bridge. You will also need to provide your own headphones and audio recorder. (Her vil vi sende ut en liste med tips fra Bob når du melder deg på workshoppen.)

Students produce their work in SoundSlides™ and Audacity™, a free sound editing program available on-line. Students are encouraged to try Audacity before the workshop. This course is both apple and pc friendly.

SoundSlides Dowload: soundslides.com
Audacity Download: audacity.sourceforge.net

OUR TEACHER:
Bob Sacha is an award-winning multimedia producer, documentary director and cameraman and internationally published photographer. He shoots and produces visual stories specifically for the web. Bob’s work mixes video, still images and audio to create tightly focused journalistic narratives with cinematic sensibilities. His work sometimes also involves conducting camera video interviews and then crafting them into narratives without narration or B-roll.

Sacha has received numerous awards for his innovative work, including most recently the 2010 Documentary Project of the Year in the Pictures of the Year International competition. He has also won first place for multimedia stories in the Online News Association competition (MultiMedia Feature, Large Site) and the New York Photo Awards (MultiMedia/ Photo Video) and first place in the 2009 Editor & Publisher Photos of the Year contest for Video/ Multimedia more than 250,000.

One of the multimedia projects he worked on was awarded the 2010 Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University Award in Broadcast News, the first DuPont ever awarded to a web project. He has also been nominated for three National Emmy Awards in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming category for his multimedia work.

He has a strong track record in teaching these skills to students and media specialists at foundations and corporations around the world. He has been an adjunct or served as a multimedia coach at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism since 2009. He’s an instructor at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and was nominated by the students at ICP for an “Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award. He teaches video and also mentors students on their interactive capstone projects at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He has taught super talented mid-career professionals at the MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Reporting workshop and you can see some of the results of that teaching here and here and here.

WORKSHOP TUITION:
Workshop tuition: NOK 6.700,-
Deposit to be paid when signing up: NOK 2.500,-

Travel expenses and housing is each participants own responsibility.

There will be a maximum limit of 15 participants.

TO REGISTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP:
To sign up for this workshop send an e-mail to: post@nordphotography.com.

Deadline to register is set to: 11TH of April 2011.

CANCELATION RULES:
For the workshop to run we need a minimum of 10 participants. If we for some reason are not able to reach our minimum number, the workshop will be canceled and you will receive a full refund. The workshop will take place in Oslo. If you are traveling here, we ask that you wait to book a ticket until we have confirmed that the minimum number is reach. We recommend everyone who travels to get travel insurance.

Withdrawal and Refund Policy
Enrollment is limited in our workshops, so once you have been accepted your participation is important to us - we are counting on you to attend. If you must withdraw from a class, we provide the following refund policy:

Withdraw more than 30 days before the start of class and we will refund all monies paid, minus a administration fee of NOK 500,-. Withdraw one month or less before the start of class and we will refund all monies paid, minus the deposit.