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2008 Workshop Schedule
Here’s a list of the workshops I’m teaching in the New Year. Hope to see you there.
Click on the name of the workshop for more information.
NPPA Multimedia Convergence
May 27-30, 2008
National Press Photographers Association
Louisville, KY
NEW DATES!!! Multimedia Storytelling
June 6-8, 2008
Julia Dean Workshops
Venice Beach, California
Visual Storytelling with Audio
Storytelling moves to the web in this workshop that combines images and audoio to tell more three-dimensional tales.
July 6-12, 2008
Santa Fe Photo Workshops
Santa Fe, NM
Multimedia Storytelling: Images and Sound Dance
July 20-26, 2008
Toscana Photo Workshops
Tuscany, Italy
Spirit of People
July 27-Aug 02, 2008
Toscana Photo Workshops
Tuscany, Italy
Leaping Into Digital.
August 10- 16, 2008
Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, ME
>>>>>>>> Work from Past Workshops< <<<<<<<<
MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop, May, 2008
We do a lot of very serious stories at work so it was fun to find something lighter during the first MediaStorm workshop in NYC. Fellow MediaStorm producers Eric Maierson, Chad Stevens and I wore many hats, mostly teaching and producing but also helping out recording, shooting and editing. Check out the results.
This is the project I produced in the workshop.
And if you still have the stomach for it, you can peek backstage at the Workshop in this piece by boy wonder and MediaStorm’s first intern Tim McLaughlin.
On Assignment: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Workshops 2007
I spent two weeks in November 2007 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico teaching a pair of workshops for National Geographic Expeditions. I was blessed with two amazing groups of students, as well as two great co-teachers: Raul Touzon and Sarah Meghan Lee. The first week I filled in for National Geographic staff photographer Nick Nichols and the second week, I taught my scheduled and advertised workshop.
Both groups of students worked extremely hard and we were all thrilled with the work produced both weeks. Here’s the final slide show from the second week, the one where I was the advertised “prize-pig”, err, I mean the “lead teacher”. I recorded the ambient sounds and mixed the soundtrack.
The Tuscany Photo Workshops 2007
I’ve had a great summer in 2007 travelling and teaching. I wanted to share a bit of what the workshop experience is like for me. This workshop, The Spirit of People, was held at the Tuscany Photo Workshops in August 2007. To me, this is what it feels like to be in a weklong photo workshop.
The SantaFe Photo Workshops 2007
I spent a week at the SantaFe (New Mexico) Photo Workshops, teaching a new class: Visual Storytelling with Audio.
The nine students ranged from professional photographers to fine artists to teachers to advanced amateurs. It was a great group and they worked long hours using the Zoom H4 recorder and AudioTechnica mics, Audacity, IView Media Pro and Soundslides Plus in addition to their digital still cameras.
In a single day, each student recorded, photographed, edited, mixed and output a multimedia show. On the second day they found a new story and recorded, photographed, edited, mixed and output a new multimedia show. Then on the third day created another new multimedia piece from scratch. Their heads must have been spinning but each piece got better and better.
While you can see the entire show below –and everyone did extremely well– here these are two of my favorite Visual Storytelling with Audio pieces:
Rick Scibelli: Final Spring
Julie Skarratt: In This Moment
Visual Storytelling with Audio 2007 class
This is the final show with everyone’s work from the class, including Julie and Rick’s piece. It’s 14.53 long.
Please remember that before this class, no one had ever recorded much audio or produced a multimedia show by themselves. I think they did a fantastic job.
(Thanks to Joe Weiss for letting us use SoundSlides Plus, his new supercharged –and very cool– version of the classic media production tool that makes slide shows simple and now creates work that looks more and more like you’ve slaved away in Final Cut Pro )
Leaping into Digital at the Maine Media Workshops
August means another installment of the target=’blank’>Leaping into Digital class at the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine. Designed for people who want to jump from silver based film to digital media. The class worked hard and this week and here’s the final slide show.
I’m sure I’ll be teaching the class in 2008. If yuo have any questions, please drop me an email.
In 2006-2007 I taught two quarters of photography to undergrads at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication as part of my Knight Fellowship.
To all the talented students whom I had the pleasure of meeting, thanks for making my teaching experience such a joy and wonder.
And…
I’ll let you in on a secret to success as a professional photographer:
Keep making photographs, all the time, every day.
Make it a part of your life.
Even if you don’t have any photo classes next quarter,
- create self-assignments,
-create a photo diary
-make a blog (like this one. It’s free),
-come show me what you’re working on. I love to look at pictures.
Competition is fierce. If you’re making photographs all the time, it’ll be a lot easier once you hit the real world.
I kept a few of my favorite multimedia presentations from those great students. Wish I could have kept them all but my personal server space is getting to be a crowded place;)
SOPHIE BORAZANIAN: Cattle Dogs
SHAENA MALLETT: Fashion Phobia
EMILY METZGER: Desired Addiction
Thanks again and keep in touch.
Bob Sacha