The Work - 2009
VJ Multimedia Workshop
July 30 – August 2, 2009
Brooks Institute
Ventura, Calif.
Below are the workshop teams and their projects that were shown in our “Work in Progress” final show at the workshop.
All photos, audio and video were shot on Friday July 31, 2009 in Ventura County, Calif.
Each team project’s running time is approximately 15 minutes.
Group 1 fountain [...]
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The Story’s Our Thing
48 students with 35 team leaders, alumni producers and Brooks student TAs, combined to tell stories July 30 - August 2, 2009 at the Ventura Campus of Brooks Institute.
Over the weekend, every one of the participants shot and produced a multimedia piece as they learned to explore a philosophy of practice for multimedia and all [...]
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Marriott and City of Ventura Offer Community Support
Continuing our theme of giving back, we have partnered with the City of Ventura to provide the content gathered during the workshop as a historical archive. In addition, they will be working with us to provide story ideas from the community in and around Ventura. Completely in line with our Mission, the Cultural Affairs Division [...]
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PhotoShelter and Think Tank Photo on board as sponsors
The list of sponsors for the VJ Multimedia Workshop has grown in a significant way this past week with commitments from Think Tank Photo and PhotoShelter.
“Now we have two more sponsors who believe in our cause and we are happy to have them on board. Their show of support for our community of visual journalists [...]
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Inspiration
These are a few sites that we find inspiration in. We hope you will too…
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Kennedy, Anger, Lubens and Merithew confirmed
The outpouring of support for the workshop has been tremendous, this week alone we’ve booked several notables to our lineup of Team Leaders and Guest Speakers.
Tom Kennedy is an internationally known visual journalist with 35 years of print and online journalism experience, including positions as Managing Editor for Multimedia at The Washington Post and Director [...]
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Welcome to the VJ Multimedia Workshop!
This workshop provides a tuition-free multimedia shooting and production workshop for visual storytellers based in the traditions of journalism. Our goal is to give back to the visual journalism community by educating a new generation of visual journalists in current practices and strategies. This year, university students and Visual Journalists who were laid off in [...]
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POTENTIAL by Paul Myers
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POTENTIAL by Paul Myers
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ELECTION by Grant Morris
ELECTION by Grant Morris
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MINUTE MEN by Nicholas Weissman
MINUTE MEN by Nicholas Weissman
