NPPA Offers Two Full-Tuition Kalish Workshop Scholarships

If you're thinking of applying for The Kalish Workshop, the Workshop and the NPPA are offering some great stipends and scholarships: From the NPPA site: The National Press Photographers Association is offering two full-tuition scholarships to The Kalish Workshop in June at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, and the workshop is offering 10 stipends toward registration. The Kalish, in its twenty-first year, is four days of intense training in visual storytelling editing. Participants will learn how to establish a narrative, select media mix, edit the narrative, and produce the story for online and print. The Kalish combines lectures, hands-on exercises, critiques, and group discussions to create a complete learning experience. The workshop is geared for anyone who handles pictures for online or print. Picture editors, photographers, professors, writers, and designers will benefit. The workshop at Ball State will run from June 20 through June 24, 2011. To be eligible for this…

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I’m not a documentary but I play one on the internet: a panel on interactive documentary

If you're in NYC on May 1, check out I’m not a documentary but I play one on the internet: a panel on interactive documentary Sunday, May 1 at 7:30pm $9 suggested donation. Artists Florian Thalhofer, Fred Ritchin, and Jonathan Harris present for discussion along with curators Hanne-Lovise Skartveit and André Valentim Almeida. Documentary filmmakers are seizing the opportunity to use emerging technologies and expand their linear films into digital platforms to engage with audiences in new ways. In this panel, meet three of the most exciting experts on the subject who have cultivated and perfected the interactive, digital form as their primary way of representing reality: Berlin-based media artist Florian Thalhofer, maker of online documentaries and the creator of the Korsakow System -a leading software for the creation of nonlinear documentaries-; Jonathan Harris, award winning artist behind the We Feel Fine project with a mission to find ways for technology to…

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Apply now for the Kalish – Deadline is May 2

Applications are currently being accepted for The Kalish - If you are a visual editor looking to sharpen your visual story-telling skills or fine-tune them to better fit a digital newsroom, you want to apply for this workshop. If you need convincing, see what Kevin Riddell, a recent graduate from the Ohio University School of Visual Communication, has to say about his experience at the 2009 Kalish Workshop: The Kalish Experience | Kevin Riddell from Danny Gawlowski on Vimeo. Visit the Kalish site for more information and to apply.

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MediaStorm Multimedia Storytelling Workshop to be held at LOOK3, June 8, 2011

MediaStorm has partnered with LOOK3 to offer a one-day Multimedia Storytelling Workshop on June 8, 2011, the day before the Festival of the Photograph launches. This one-day workshop will provide an overview of multimedia storytelling approaches. Through real world examples and open discussions with participants, Brian Storm will share tips and techniques to improve reporting and editing and discuss the most effective tools for specific jobs and the most appropriate ways to create a multimedia story. This workshop is designed for anyone interested in multimedia storytelling, no experience is necessary. We will be looking primarily at multimedia methodology and theory- this is not a workshop to learn how to use your new audio recorder- it’s a workshop where you will be asked to look deeper, into the when and why of different storytelling techniques and approaches. For more information, and to register, please visit: Multimedia Storytelling at LOOK3. You can also buy…

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Apply now for 2011 Kalish Workshop, to be held June 20-24

The 2011 Kalish Workshop will be held June 20-24, at Ball State University. If you're interested in becoming a better visual editor, you should definitely check this Workshop out. Faculty Member Scott Sines tells us more about what you'll find at this year's Kalish: There are jobs out there for multi-media producers. There are jobs out there for visual editors who have creative ways of curating, quality, User Generated Visuals. There are jobs out there for visual editors who can communicate across all platforms; mobile, tablet, web and print. And today’s reality is that many visual editors are working with freelancers. There are career paths out there for those editors who excel in these areas and Kalish 3.0 is designed to address these new opportunities in visual storytelling. For over 20 years we’ve been training editors, producers, photojournalists, professors and students in visual editing. There are nearly 1,000 Kalish alums working in…

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