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Interactive Storytelling 101 This Weekend at UnionDocs

A primer for nonfiction filmmakers looking to expand into interactive storytelling. This workshop surveys trends in interactive documentary, introduces new technologies being used, and provides a “how-to” for starting and conceptualizing interactive projects. The workshop will look at different approaches to developing non-fiction content with interactivity, and share best practices to translate linear documentary films into dynamic, fluid digital stories. Learn more... Interactive Storytelling 101 Sunday, March 24 at 4:00pm 322 Union Avenue Williamsburg, Brooklyn Cost: $15 Register and learn more: http://www.uniondocs.org/2013-03-2-interactive-storytelling-101/ About the Instructors Laurie Sumiye is a filmmaker, designer and artist who uses media and technology to explore new ways of looking at natural and urban environments and people who exist in them. Her varied experience in fine art, interactive media, graphic design, animation and broadcast journalism uniquely informs her work by combining graphic, handmade, digital, and documentary forms. Laurie received her MFA in Integrated Media Arts at CUNY Hunter…

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Read more about the article MediaStorm Launches Online Training Educational Program

MediaStorm Launches Online Training Educational Program

MediaStorm is pleased to announce a new Educational Program that offers discounted Online Training licenses to students at participating universities. MediaStorm Online Training Educational Program The MediaStorm Online Training Educational Program offers a simple way for educational institutions to use our acclaimed training in their classrooms. In just three easy steps we'll have your classroom learning from our award-winning production staff. How It Works Our Educational Program makes it easy for educators to integrate our training into their curriculum, while offering a significant discount to students. The training modules can be incorporated into the program syllabus just like a textbook and can be accessed by students at any time during the semester. Notable institutions like the University of Missouri and Syracuse University have already made the MediaStorm Online Training experience a regular part of their curriculum. For tomorrow's multimedia journalists and visual storytellers, there's no better way to learn. Sign Up Today…

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MediaStorm Hiring Summer 2013 Operations and Social Media Intern

MediaStorm is looking for a motivated, creative and detail-oriented intern to work with the operations and social media manager for Summer 2013. The intern will focus on writing for the MediaStorm blog, updating and maintaining our social media presences, creatively and strategically thinking about growing MediaStorm’s online community, assisting with contest submissions, and helping with other daily tasks as they come up. Qualifications The intern that we’re looking for has: experience writing for an online or print publication an interest in developing online communities the ability to work and research independently a strong interest in online journalism, storytelling and their respective evolutions a love of new technologies a compulsive need to correct typos a burning desire to learn and improve his or her work This internship is paid. The internship runs from May - August 2013. Exact start and end dates are flexible. To apply enter your cover letter, resume, links to…

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Brian Storm Speaking at SVA Public Lecture

MediaStorm founder and executive producer Brian Storm will be giving a free, public lecture on Multimedia Storytelling at the School of Visual Arts on March 26. Multimedia Storytelling at SVA Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 7pm – 9pm 209 East 23rd Street 3rd Floor New York, NY 10010 Free and open to the public See full event details. Event Description Brian Storm–founder of the award-winning production studio MediaStorm (mediastorm.org) and previously director of multimedia for msnbc.com and vice president of news, multimedia, and assignment services for Corbis, New York–discusses how storytelling continues to evolve as a result of technological innovations and an expanding media universe. The digital age has given filmmakers, photographers, and photojournalists extraordinary and unprecedented new ways to tell stories, as well as a greater level of authorship. How can the long-form, in-depth visual storyteller satisfy both their journalistic and financial needs in this environment? Learn how to disseminate your work…

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