Geert Heetebrij

Geert participated in the December 2019 MediaStorm Methodology Workshop. He had the following to say about his experience:

I like peeking in the kitchen of working production companies. Given how fast this field changes, refreshers on how to best produce media can be good correctives--and inspiring to boot. So that was one reason I wanted to take MediaStorm’s workshop. The other reason is that I’m developing a new master class that I’ll be teaching, so I’m looking for the latest and best practices from the field.

I got that in MediaStorm’s workshop. Brian Storm (his real name) was honest about both the heights and valleys of producing, and the challenges facing independent media producers. He opened up about MediaStorm’s diverse lines of business, and pulled back the curtain on their methodology, from ideation to production to post.

The other workshop participants were a diverse and hungry group of accomplished professionals in their media fields, each seeking to improve their game and/or master a new area of production. Since the group was small enough (ten participants) you could get to know each other within the week.

Much of the time was spent on analyzing a number of MediaStorm’s short documentaries, i.e., an analysis of their production and post-production choices. Note: you don’t actually do any media production in this workshop; this methodology workshop is a fly-over of process and, well, methodology. I came away inspired and would recommend this to professionals and those who teach practical media production.