- This multimedia storytelling workshop is for photographers who want to combine still images and sound for the web, DVD, or TV. Explore how to add music, voices, interviews, narration, and ambient sounds to photo stories and essays.
- Learn how to use audio equipment, recording techniques, and software to edit our photographs and sound into powerful multimedia stories. Conduct interviews and record ambient sounds and narration on field trips.
- Explore the options and capabilities of online bookmaking and learn how to self-publish a photography book using Blurb’s Booksmart software.
- Hands-on training in technical workflow and esthetic decisions needed to edit, sequence, and prepare photos and text to create and print a beautiful book.
- Use Adobe CS4 Photoshop® within the bookmaking workflow, and learn how to improve digital photography techniques and optimize image files for publication or inkjet printing.
- This workshop will culminate in a public exhibition of student work.
Undergraduate: MCJ 429, 3 units
Graduate: MCJ 629, 3 units
$50
Students should possess and know how to operate a digital SLR camera on manual mode, as well as know how to download images from the camera to the computer. Also required is a working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and knowledge of how to select and organize images using image-viewing software.
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Submit a collection of photographs (ideally a possible photo story or essay) on CD or DVD to demonstrate photography and Photoshop skills.
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Send the materials listed in Step One with your completed Registration Form to the
Summer Arts Registration Office by
May 3, 2010.
The deadline to apply for this course has passed.
Professor Mark Larson
mal2@humboldt.edu
707-826-5925
Susan Hayre Thelwell
Photographer and educator Susan Hayre Thelwell is a Santa Fe-based fine-art photographer and dynamic instructor of e-book publishing. In 2008, her book Mitchell’s Lot won an Honorable Mention in the Blurb Photography.Book.Now national competition. Work from that long-term personal project was included in the 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial exhibit. She crafts her black and white prints in the digital darkroom, and her work is shown and collected throughout the United States. Her enthusiasm and knowledge of photography and her understanding of the technical as well as artistic sides of the craft make her a popular instructor at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and at the Maine Media Workshops.
Check out her website at www.susanhayrethelwell.com
Photographer and educator Susan Hayre Thelwell is a Santa Fe-based fine-art photographer and dynamic instructor of e-book publishing. In 2008, her book Mitchell’s Lot won an Honorable Mention in the Blurb Photography.Book.Now national competition. Work from that long-term personal project was included in the 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial exhibit. She crafts her black and white prints in the digital darkroom, and her work is shown and collected throughout the United States. Her enthusiasm and knowledge of photography and her understanding of the technical as well as artistic sides of the craft make her a popular instructor at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and at the Maine Media Workshops.
Check out her website at www.susanhayrethelwell.com
Josh Meltzer
Josh Meltzer joined the faculty at Western Kentucky University in August 2009 where he teaches photojournalism and multimedia storytelling. Encouraged by co-workers and a forward-thinking editor at The Roanoke Times to experiment with the use of audio combined with visuals, he fell in love with this medium of multimedia storytelling. His long-term multimedia project from 2008, called Age of Uncertainty, won the First Place Best Documentary Prize from the Pictures of the Year International, the convergence award from the APME and won the Casey Medal multimedia prize in addition to other regional, state and national awards. Mr. Meltzer accepted a Fulbright Scholarship from 2008-2009 to work and teach in Guadalajara, Mexico where he gathered content for a multimedia project about the migration of indigenous families within Mexico.
Check out his website at www.joshmeltzer.com
Josh Meltzer joined the faculty at Western Kentucky University in August 2009 where he teaches photojournalism and multimedia storytelling. Encouraged by co-workers and a forward-thinking editor at The Roanoke Times to experiment with the use of audio combined with visuals, he fell in love with this medium of multimedia storytelling. His long-term multimedia project from 2008, called Age of Uncertainty, won the First Place Best Documentary Prize from the Pictures of the Year International, the convergence award from the APME and won the Casey Medal multimedia prize in addition to other regional, state and national awards. Mr. Meltzer accepted a Fulbright Scholarship from 2008-2009 to work and teach in Guadalajara, Mexico where he gathered content for a multimedia project about the migration of indigenous families within Mexico.
Check out his website at www.joshmeltzer.com
Check out our other art and multimedia courses:
Drawing and Painting in Florence
Clay as a Medium for Sculpture
Animation: Making a Hand-Drawn Commercial
Building Reactive Sculpture: Spaces & Objects, Sound & Movement
Toy Design: Concept to Product
Remember, California residents can take two courses (up to six units) for the same tuition dollars!