Creating a Video Diary: Artistic and Experimental Multimedia
Some stories are best told using a variety of components in addition to photographs — like video, audio, and text — to add a deeper dimension. In this course you’ll learn the basics of video/multimedia creation and it’s workflow, using easy tools to expand your storytelling skills. We’ll cover practical information on how to script a story, conduct interviews, and film with your camera or phone, as well as editing basics and publishing your video on a variety of platforms. We’ll analyze videos for inspiration and discuss creative production choices, including framing, camera movement, editing concepts, and sound.
The focus is on story, form, and visual and sound choices, rather than technical complexity. There are no boundaries; students can experiment with using archival material (old images or letters) or mixing documentary and biography with fiction. Through weekly tutorials and exercises, students will produce their own short 3-minute video diary, essay, or experimental video. Class sessions are 2.5 hours with a 1-hour private session.
Marina Thomé is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Portugal and Brazil. Marina works as a director, researcher, and editor for multimedia platforms and experiments with portraits, archives, and soundscapes. Her films have been presented in festivals in France, USA, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Colombia, and elsewhere, including the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York and Festival Biarritz Latin America in France. She is the co-founder of Estúdio CRUA, an award-winning production company that connects new media and social impact. They produced the Hackathon Webdoc Project, involving over 100 participants in workshops on creating collaborative multi-platform documentaries. Marina holds masters degrees in Creative Documentary (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and in Communication, Art & Technology (Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo). She studied photojournalism and storytelling at the International Center of Photography (New York) and has taught multiplatform storytelling at art institutions in Brazil, Portugal, and Spain.
In 2023, she coordinated Arché, a creative development space for film professionals from Iberoamerican countries, at the Doclisboa and Porto/Post/Doc Festivals, organized by APORDOC-The Portuguese Documentary Association. She's currently working on her project Red Skies, a video installation supported by DG Arts (Portuguese Directorate-General for the Arts), to be presented in the Azores Islands.
Marina teaches multimedia, video, and multiplatform storytelling for StrudelmediaLive.
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