WASHINGTON, DC, 12 March 2012 — You now can watch Jenna Bonello’s video story, “Food Truck Frenzy,” on YouTube. Jenna produced the story during our March 8-11 Backpack Journalism Workshop. These workshops are intensive, four-day immersions in the craft of “backpack journalism” defined as character-driven television/web productions with hand-held digital cameras by a single practitioner. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 9 March 2012 — Jenna Bonello, (L) documents the work of food truck performers, the “fojol brothers,” while working on her assignment during our Backpack Journalism Workshop. (Photo by Bill Gentile)
WASHINGTON, 10 March 2012 — The Backpack Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC, began on Thursday with a showing of “Chain Gang” as an example of what this methodology can achieve. We have a terrific group of students. Most have never shot video before, but bring an innate sense of the medium to the event. (Photo […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 1 March 2012 — Time Magazine published one of the stories that my wife, Esther, and I produced on the island during my semester there last year with a group of AU Abroad students. I taught my Photojournalism and Social Documentary course, which is the theoretical and practical basis of Backpack Journalism. See […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 29 February 2012 — Looks like I’ll be presenting again at this year’s Shootoff Video Workshop in Washington, DC. The audience is mostly intermediate level military videographers and broadcasters. Always fun and fulfilling to work with them. I’ll be giving a presentation on 3 May 2012 about Backpack Journalism. I’ll probably go over […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 7 February 2012 — We’re just over one month away from my Backpack Journalism Workshop in Washington DC, scheduled for 8-11 March 2012. For more information, see this piece on Vimeo.