Intro to Video Journalism Part 2: Telling Stories
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This class will focus on the heart of the documentary: telling the story. The instructor will show an example of his work (and some work that inspires him) and outline what makes a basic documentary story. The course will discuss how to tell stories visually (composition) as well as how to conduct interviews and the types of questions to can ask to help people tell their stories to you. Check out the instructor's other Video Journalism classes: Thursday, August 6th | 6:00pm-9:00pm | Intro to Video Journalism Part 1: Camera Equipment and Exposure Thursday, August 20th | 6:00pm-9:00pm | Intro to Video Journalism Part 3: Shooting and Editing To note: although this class is part of a series, it may also be taken as a stand-alone class.About the teacher:Alex Freeman graduated from RIT in 2012 and chose to stay in Rochester. He worked as a member of Americorps for city recreation, got to know the city and combined his interest for filmmaking with his passion for the community. Alex films and edits a variety of documentaries under the name Studio 73 Productions, and prefers to focus on journalistic style shorts. (vimeo.com/studio73productions). He also films and edits the web series Slow Road (slowroadtravel.com). This past year Alex was commissioned to produce a documentary for the Greentopia film festival, and recently filmed the 2015 Jazz Festival.
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