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About the Workshop
During the week of December 6-12, 2008, three talented professionals collaborated with the MediaStorm team at the third MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop. The participating photographers and editors explored New York City as they documented their stories and refined their audio, video, photography, and editing skills.
See the project produced during this workshop below, or apply for the next round of Workshops.
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Beautiful Noise by Morag Livingstone,
Mareile Paley, & Kimberley Porteous
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Kirk and Evelyna are raising their children in a small New York City apartment far from her home in Germany. They try to stay optimistic while coping with the current economic crisis. See the project.
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Participant Biographies
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Morag Livingstone is a freelance photojournalist primarily working with young people in the areas of low income, poverty and mental health. Creating, on behalf of not-for-profit and medical organizations, campaign, fundraising and training tools her work has been credited as influencing government policy in Scotland and in the release of political prisoners abroad. After 14 years in the corporate sector Morag left to complete her Masters Degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London University of the Arts in 2005. Published internationally in over 250 publications including The Guardian, BBC, CNN, IPS Terraviva, Morag is also joint founder (2006) of Nutmeg Images, the award winning ethical photographic consultancy which documents and communicates socially responsible actions in the corporate sector.
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"Truly the best investment I have made this year. The workshop comprises not just of valuable information on practicalities, improving process efficiency, advanced Final Cut, timesaving techniques but the dedicated MediaStorm team also provides wide ranging in the field guidance, including how to shoot stills and video for multimedia - which is different!
Taking this time out to totally focus on multimedia, discuss and debate topics, receive advice on story structure, themes and totally focusing on bringing myself to the next level has already helped me in my day-to-day life as a freelancer.
Leaning from the MediaStorm team, I now truly appreciate the meaning of never accepting anything less than the highest standards either from others or myself. This opportunity is second to none, and I am very happy to have worked with the MediaStorm team, who go above and beyond, even working with us throughout the night, to impart their knowledge and to support us in developing new practical and creative approaches every minute of the Workshop. The workshop pushes your personal boundaries and while challenging at times, it's also a lot of fun!" - Morag Livingstone
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Mareile Paley is a German Art Director based out of Hong Kong and owner of a small multimedia company - Paleymotion. Over the last decade she has spent much of her time in Pakistan working for various development organizations, such as the Aga Khan Foundation, IUCN, FOCUS Humanitarian Assistance together with her husband, photographer Matthieu Paley. Work and travel in the region resulted in a variety of photo exhibitions and live multimedia presentations in Europe, Asia and Canada. Besides her graphic work, Mareile also writes and her work has appeared in numerous travel magazines throughout the world, often to complete Matthieu's photo essays.
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"As a freelancer the jump into multimedia felt a bit like climbing a mountain in the dark. As a team, Matthieu and I had a good idea of what we wanted to achieve and also knew that our professional experience would make it an endeavor with good chances to succeed. What we lacked, was method and guidance.
The MediaStorm workshop could not have come at a better point in my career, filling in many of the blanks and answering a ton of questions. It also confirmed me in my path, proved that my thinking was instinctively right and motivated me to continue to believe that this new type of story telling is the way forward.
Seeing the team at MediaStorm at work and having had the privilege to work directly with different producers, showed me that despite setting strong standards for organization and following systematic production guidelines, creativity does not need to be compromised. It felt good to see that even the 'best' discuss and disagree and that listening to each other and working as a team often results in a stronger solution. I will be able to apply these experiences to my own team at home.
Not for a second, (not even at 5am on Thursday morning...), did I regret the decision to invest in this workshop. It was worth every moment and every penny." - Mareile Paley
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Kimberley Porteous is the multimedia editor at The Sydney Morning Herald, where she works with photographers, reporters, video producers and Flash designers to create news multimedia packages, audio slideshows and the occasional video report. She also trains her print colleagues in interviewing for audio and in multimedia storytelling. Although she joined the online team in 2000, her true epiphany came in 2005 when she lived for a year in the US listening to NPR and "This American Life". She produced "The War of Ideas", which won Australia's top journalism prize, a Walkley Award, in 2006, and "Beyond a White Australia", which won a United Nations Media Peace Prize in 2007. Her recent project, "Exit Iraq", hasn't won anything.
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"Spending six days on a MediaStorm workshop was a career-changing experience. Where else can you finesse your multimedia storytelling skills with the absolute best in the business?
As good multimedia begins in the field, we were trained in the techniques to shoot video like the pros. Then in post-production we learned the best way to edit our footage to create slick and polished presentations. Exposure to the MediaStorm workflows and practices is invaluable, and provides you with a template to structure and manage future projects.
They're a fabulous team to work with, and incredibly generous with sharing their experience and expertise.
By the time I reluctantly left MediaStorm I was inspired beyond measure, and felt armed with the missing pieces of the puzzle to produce high-quality news multimedia productions. " - Kimberley Porteous
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Learn more about The MediaStorm Workshops.
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