MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 14 December 2013 This is the final video produced by Pablo Castro at my Backpack Video Journalism Workshop in Montevideo. It’s about a slightly eccentric bookseller in the nation’s capital. It’s also about visual style, narration and musical background, all unique and defining characteristics of Pablo’s film. All of them combine to […]
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 14 December 2013 — This is the final video produced by Nicolas Pereyra at my Backpack Video Journalism Workshop in Montevideo. It’s about a Venezuelan woman living in Uruguay and the Venezuelan-style specialty, called “arepas,” she prepares for hungry customers. Nicolas did a great job of adapting to a shifting landscape in the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 27 November 2013 — Greetings! This Holiday Season give your friends and loved ones the power to connect, motivate and earn with video. For a limited time only, we’re offering the ONLINE Video Journalism Workshop With Bill Gentile for $195.00 — a 50% discount from the ticket price. Don’t wait. Offer good until […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 24 November 2013 — This is the poster prepared by a former student of mine announcing my visit to, and Video Journalism Workshop in, Uruguay in December. The trip is designed to support Valentina Quagliotti, who founded Ikusi, a non-profit based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Ikusi is dedicated to furthering the objectives of other, […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 17 November 2013 So youve finished the production stage of your documentary. Youve got a pile of media in the hard drive. And youre looking at a blank time line. Now what? Every filmmaker devises his/her own system for the post-production stage of the process, but heres what Ive found to be […]
http://videojournalismworkshops.com, WASHINGTON, DC, 12 November 2013 — I encourage students to conduct informal, on-the-run interviews with their characters as a means to connect those characters with their audience. The intent of these informal interviews is distinct from the formal, sit-down affairs that provide a character’s narration that we often slip under the character’s image while […]