6. Who are you?
✤ Introduce yourself and your
relationship to the MCDM
program.
✤ What do you hope to get out of
this class?
✤ What media example did you
bring today? How is this story
an example of something you
want to do in this class?
✤ URL’s to: http://tinyurl.com/
583MulitmediaRecs
✤
8. Topic Vs Story:
•Broad vs. Specific
•Assumed vs. Researched
•Static vs. Active
9. Topics
• global health
• Somali refugees
• food trucks
• the elections
10. Stories:
•Swedish Hospital doctor’s life devoted to
malaria research
•In Tukwila Somali refugees starts program to
send famine relief aid home
•Forget tacos, Asian fusion chef changing the
Seattle food truck scene
•Profile of a young conservative campaign
manager in Seattle
11. Technology
✤ Equipment Checkout
✤ Shooting Workshop: Friday Oct 21st 1-4pm
✤ Editing Workshop: Friday Nov 4th 1-4pm
12. Assignments for Next Week
✤ Top 3 client choices via email (including short project description)
✤ As soon as I confirm your client choice: schedule an initial meeting
with your client
✤ Collect Visuals: establishing shot, medium shot, close up, extreme close up,
zoom, pan (Kalow pp 9-11)
✤ Collect Audio: ambient sound, detailed sound, room tone (Kalow pp 20)
✤ Collect ‘Man on the Street’ interview
13. Feedback Cards
✤ What worked today?
✤ What didn’t work today?
✤ What do you want more of in the future?
Editor's Notes
Welcome!\nName tags!\nThis is a multimedia storytelling class\nToday we’re going to get to know each other and talk about what to expect this quarter\n\nWe’ll take a 10 minute break halfway through\n\nAgenda\n\nGet to know each other, understand your experience & expectation, give you a clear picture of what to expect this quarter.\nAsk questions any time.\nWe want to start by telling you who we are.\nLast five minutes - feedback cards.\n\n\n
Nonprofit multimedia journalism\n\nJust got back from Russia\n\nShow clpmag.org and Globalist\n\nSome of the places we’ve reported from - \nPakistan ’06 & ’09\nEthiopia & Kenya ’08\nSyria & northern Iraq 2010\nRussia and FSU 2012\n\nCofounders - how we got started\n\nCo-teaching: Sarah is Story Expertise, Alex Technical Expertise\n\nWhat do we do at the UW? Teaching undergrads, mentoring students, SDLI, editing/mentoring contributors, Flip the Media. \n\nTalk through current CLP work: we’re gonna be working on projects deeply within the philosophy of this class over the course of the quarter - Barzan, Gen PU.\n\n\n
Barzan.\n\nImmigration and Terrorism\nStory of someone caught up in a bigger issue that we’ve heard a lot about.\nDespite all that GWOT, immigration system, xenophobia coverage, I haven’t seen super intimate stories about someone who’s been affected.\n\nWhat we’re working on right now; we’ll be drawing on examples from this story all quarter.\n\nIntrigued? Don’t worry, we’ll have you watch the whole thing in a couple weeks\n\n\n
Never Going Home\n\nAgain letting individual’s stories represent larger issue.\n\nMixing stills with Video\n\nMade on a similar time frame with similar equipment to what they’ll be working with. Similar constraints on access\n\nFollow up: One person story speaking to bigger issue. Does it connect to larger issue enough.  Give you enough concrete info?  What could this be used for? Generally What worked about this for you? what didn’t? \n\n\n\n
Til 6:45\n\nFlow out of Never Going Home into this.\n\nEvery CLP story is about an issue - but using a single character or story to illustrate that issue.\n\nExamples: water walker, bitter harvest, humiera, Gabi, Iraqi refugees. Sam. \n\nEverybody is an exceptional story.  This gets to the very heart of storytelling (its beating bloody center).  If you can do this well, you can tell stories well.\n\nYou will produce a video for a client, but it can be j outlet too. Needs a home.\nWe are talking about character studies. How do you tell the story of big issues through regular people’s stories? Info overload of the internet --> makes these kinds of stories really stand out. Skill for promos, advertising and journalism.\n\nThis is about pushing yourself to do something new.  it’s up to you all - esp. if you’ve made a multimedia piece before - to try something new.  It’s never a waste of time to make a new piece of media bc you already know how to do it. Every time it gets better.\n\n\nPeople have complicated relationship to video -- panic, urgency\nThis is a craft, not a skill to check off your list!\n\nIt’s not an assignment, its a professional opportunity. Walk away with something you’ll be proud of.\n\nBecause we’re self-taught, outsiders to the industry--we know how to learn how to rock this.  If you are into this, you will walk out of here with something you’re proud of. High standards, kicking butts and taking names. Our undergrads say our class is the hardest, and pushes them to do the best.  We give you lots of attention, we care so much. \n\nLiking people is the secret to being a good storyteller.  EVERYONE is INTERESTING! \n\nThis is a really important skill to drill down on bc of how challenging it is. it is a sensitive and complex process to tell someone else’s story. and in my exp. hasn’t been something you learn accidentally; you have to commit to learning to do it well.  if you can do that well, you can learn to do it well.\n\nEthics: something we’ll be talking about constantly. *Catharsis *process doesn’t always feel good. *perception of self & perception of self by others *rasha & mohaned anecdote. *storyteller’s experience.\n\n\n
Break somewhere in here\n80 minutes 6:45 til 8:00\n\nWhy you’re here through your piece of media.\n1 minute intro of yourself @ MCDM. What do you hope to get out of this class? Play or talk about your media and why it’s an example of something you want to do in this class.\n
20 mins - 8:15 til 8:35\nEating is OK. First names are cool.\n\nVimeo group: just to help us all be able to find each other easily.\nHow many have your own blog? (Always cool to post your assignments there--just submit the link to dropbox).\n\nKalow Text: First time we’ve used it.  Thoughts so far?\n\nTierno: we’ll pass out one chapter; interesting stuff if you want to read more.\n\nJanet Malcolm: Great book exploring the relationship betw. storyteller/documentarian and their subject. Shows how similar issues are across time and in different mediums.\nIt takes a very cynical view of this process. Worth considering but don’t read it until later.\n\nRecommended Viewing. Lots of Great Docs there -- the more you watch the better you’ll be. Feel free to add more.\n\nHard drive!  100GB minimum - any questions or concerns?  Anyone not already have a hard drive? \n\nGeneral expectations: hours outside of class. Not a huge amount of reading though there’s some watching. Mostly it’s about shooting and editing time.  Ethics!  Not necessarily a journalism course - but we are telling nonfiction stories.  We’ll have a whole lecture on ethics but the basics of journalism ethics are: Seek the truth and report it.  And Transparancy, Accountability, Openness.\n\nClients: we are going to get into this more in a bit, but the basic idea is: Journalism - client = editor. Promo - client = business or NPO.\n\nMost multimedia people are self-taught so immersing yourself in media is totally the way to learn.\n\n\n
10 mins 8:35 til 8:40\n\nBiggest problem with pitches I see as an editor is people pitching topics instead of stories. Make it an easy YES for the editor.\n\n*Editors don’t want to do the research for you\n\n*Your story pitch should demonstrate your knowledge on the topic\n\n*It should be easy to understand why your story is interesting, relevant and timely\n
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Specifics, research, timelines, etc.\n\nHow many of you guys brought a topic to class today (show of hands)? \n\nThat’s what we expected...so now:\n\n
5 mins - only if we can finish by 9:10\n\nEquipment Checkout -- Ask: who has their own camera? Have you used this before? Need help?\n\nWorkshop Schedule -- these are open to you if you want extra help\n
9:30 - 9:45\n\nEmail me your client choices ASAP. Most of them can take multiple clients, so I’ll probably start assigning them as soon as I get your emails.\n\nB-roll:\nGo someplace you haven’t been before (take your bus in the opposite direction, take the next freeway exit, or just a side street you’ve never walked down) and wander around for 30 mins. Collect audio and visual B-roll using your equipment. \n\nVisuals: establishing shot, medium shot, close up, extreme close up, zoom, pan. (See Kalow pp 9 and 10 for descriptions, 11 for more ideas)\nAssigning pan and zoom to convince you not to do them\n\nSounds: room tone, ambient sound, detailed sound. 2 minute 'man on the street' interview (please upload as a separate file).\n\nMan on the street: We’re going to come back to interviewing wk 3, this is just practice for that, while you’re out. Need something to critique. Also good to get out there talking to people.\n\n
