Workshop Participants
Martin Ramsgård is a journalist with a 20-year background in broadcast news reporting from all over the world. Now he is working with "storytelling in moving pictures" in his own company Kragekær Film. Martin is a journalist but shoots and edits most of his stories himself. Check it out on his website kragekaerfilm.dk. Martin produces both broadcast television and stories of all kinds for the internet.
Before starting his own company Martin was a reporter and producer at Denmark's main broadcast news station TV2 and TV2NEWS and had also been working for a few of the local network news programs and done a handful of primetime documentaries throughout the years.
Martin is setting up Video Playground, an international video workshop for professional film, TV and video photographers in Denmark. Video Playground is made in association with the Danish Pressphotographers Association and The European Filmcollege.
Martin participated in the November 2013 MediaStorm Methodology Workshop. He had the following to say about his experience:
When I was doing the Video Playground workshop this summer all the guest speakers were talking about MediaStorm as the rockstars of the media world. So when Søren Skarby and I shortly after saw there was a course at MediaStorm we had to go. I was not disappointed. Many of the technical and storytelling techniques are already part of my DNA since I have been working in broadcast news and television for many years. Always good to have a brush up though.
Where I really got a lot of eyeopeners was in the business field where I think there are a lot of Brian’s ideas I can take back to Denmark, though the media landscape is very different from the one in the US. In times where it´s almost impossible to get the media to pay for quality journalism it´s always good to see new ways to finance what we really want. Further it´s always a feast watching top class journalism in any field.