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You’re Invited to “Digital Terrain: Navigating the New World of Environmental Storytelling”

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:June 16, 2015

Join innovators from digital news sites, public radio, and more, plus top editors from the New York Times Magazine, Popular Science, MediaStorm and Nautilus, for Digital Terrain: Navigating the New World of Environmental Storytelling, hosted by the Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York.

Come explore emerging forms of environmental storytelling in this day-long workshop sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists in New York City on July 10, 2015.

Register online.

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Future of Storytelling Prize Opens Call for Submissions

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:June 15, 2015

Future of Storytelling has opened the 2015 submissions for the FoST prize, which awards $10,000 to the most innovative, narrative driven projects from around the world. The FoST Prize aims to cultivate the talents of those pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a storyteller in the digital age, and to help shape the future of entertainment, information, and communications.

Application deadline is July 26th.
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Premiere Premiere Pro CC 2015 Preview

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:June 10, 2015

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. As you may have heard, Adobe previewed Premiere Pro CC 2015 at April’s NAB show. There are some really innovative new features to look forward to and we will, of course, be providing new guides once we get our hands on the update. In the meantime, here’s a video roundup of what to expect: Adobe’s full NAB presentation. The company’s official blog post. One feature I’m really looking forward to is trying the new morph cut that makes jump cuts look seamless, as if by magic. A great rundown of CC 2015’s enhanced color correction tools. Some context courtesy of Pro Video Coalition. A quick overview from Dave…

Worth Watching #170: A Most Violent Year | NYC, 1981

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:June 9, 2015

An excellent bonus documentary about crime in NYC, bundled with feature film A Most Violent Year. - Eric Maierson A Most Violent Year | NYC, 1981 | A Documentary Short from A24 on YouTube. See what else we think is Worth Watching.

The Trials of Spring Launches As Cross Media Event Powered by MediaStorm

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:June 8, 2015

The Trials of Spring, a major cross media event that tells the stories of nine women on the front lines of change in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, launched as a special event on The New York Times homepage on Sunday, June 7th: six shorts will be spotlighted over the course of six days culminating with the World Premiere of the feature documentary at the 2015 Human Rights Watch Film Festival on Friday, June 12th. MediaStorm partnered with the award-winning team at The Trials of Spring, to design and build the project’s website and leverage the MediaStorm Platform to package and distribute the short films. We also developed a digital distribution outreach and social media engagement strategy for the online component of the project. Learn more about how we’re using the power of multimedia storytelling to elevate the voices of women activists in our case study. #DoWomensVoicesMatter? Join the conversation…