Location & Time

These one day workshops will be held at MediaStorm's office:

20 Jay Street
Suite 528
Brooklyn, NY 11201

The workshops will start at 10 am and end at 6 pm with an hour for lunch.

Application

Interested applicants must fill out the online application. Once you submit the form, you will not be able to edit it. We strongly recommend copying the questions and working offline, and then pasting in your answers so that you don't lose any information.

You can also sign up to be notified as additional workshop dates are added:

If you have any questions, feel free to email info@mediastorm.com

What You Will Learn

Narrative Storytelling

• Developing the best approach for creating effective multimedia stories
• Pre-production planning, finding the story's focus and execution of those ideas and techniques

Reporting Approach

• Using the best tools to get the story
• When to use a still camera, when to use audio and/or video
• How to ask questions and get to the heart of the story

Teamwork

• Getting the most out of the reporter/editor relationship
• Common issues and how to resolve them

I became a storyteller to change the world. It wasn’t until I got older, more mature, that I realized I’d become a storyteller to help people connect. I believe it’s in that connection that we truly change our world. That’s why I’m so impressed with the work MediaStorm does.

On technical skills alone, the MediaStorm team can easily produce a beautiful film. What makes them so special—and I never got this until I took their storytelling workshop—is that they bring human connection into the process.

They emphasize the power of emotion in a way you don’t often hear. They bring a level of grace and dignity to the work that results in the most elegant stories about humans. They have inspired me to no longer settle for mediocrity, but to elevate my storytelling in a way that honors the people I feature.

Michelle Zelsman
Director, Marketing and Communications at National Breast Cancer Coalition
As a print photojournalist, I went into MediaStorm's workshop with a skeptical eye. Two days later both my notebook and my brain were filled with the new ideas and opportunities being offered by the medium of web-based visual journalism. Two months later, I am still processing what I learned. This stuff isn't the future. It is now. I am convinced there has never been a better time to be a visual journalist. And there may be no person better suited to show you the way into this new medium than Brian Storm.

David Hobby
Staff Photojournalist at the Baltimore Sun
Founder of Strobist.com
I learned more in a couple days with Brian than I could learn in several months any other way. I still refer to my notes from his workshop. Even more than the technical information I picked up, Brian's enthusiasm directly lead to a new vision for multimedia in our department.

Wes Pope
Multimedia Producer at The Rocky Mountain News
So many papers are trying to rub sticks together to start a fire when all they need is a match. Brian's training with the Tribune Company helped focus the debate for what's important - good pictures and stories well told. Then he backed up his evangelizing with solid primers on technique.

Tom Van Dyke
Multimedia Journalist at the Chicago Tribune
Having Brian spend time with the photo directors and editors help set the tone for the direction we take in multimedia. The workshop opened up the possibilities that have gone mostly untested in the newspaper industry. As we move forward, these lessons learned will increase The Morning Call's audience especially when we tell stories with beautiful imagery and voices to create the complete narrative.

Naomi Halperin
Director of Photography at The Morning Call