WASHINGTON, DC, 3 January 2015 — Award-winning documentary filmmaker Callum Macrae is on hand Wednesday, February 4, 2015, at American University for the screening of “No Fire Zone,” which tells the story of the final 138 days of the 26-year Sri Lanka civil war and sheds light on the government’s brutal military offensive that saw […]
http://videojournalismworkshops.com, BANGKOK, Thailand, 15 December 2014 So youve finished your video. Now, what do you do with it? How do you get it out there, in front of people, so it can have an impact? To answer these questions, I Skyped designer and Internet marketer Bruce Jones into the third day of our workshop […]
BANGKOK, Thailand, 14 December 2014 As I say frequently during my Backpack Documentary classes at American University as well as the Video Workshops that I conduct around the world, sound is the heartbeat of documentary. It is so important that viewers often will forgive images that are slightly out of focus or improperly composed, […]
BANGKOK, Thailand, 12 December 2014 — This is the scene in front of my hotel when I first arrive at 1 am. What’s the lesson? There’s a story on every block, in every city of the world. All you have to do is keep your eyes and ears open. That’s what I’ll be telling the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 10 December 2014 — Heading out this morning for Video Workshop #2 with the Thai Broadcast Journalists Association (TBJA) in Bangkok, where I’ll teach journalists how to “raise their voices” with the latest in technology and technique. (Photo by Bill Gentile.)
GURJAANI, Georgia, 27 May 2014 - One of the students in my Backpack Video Journalism Workshop works on a project about a spa that includes a mud bath. In the picture, one of the employees of the spa demonstrates how she and her colleagues maintain the mineral-rich mud at high temperatures. Im in Georgia at […]