duckrabbit Multimedia Journalism Training – Bristol, July 2009
“It was like being a proper journalist again …. turning up in a town you’ve never been to and not being allowed to leave until you’ve got a story.“
In July 2009 duckrabbit ran its first multimedia training course at the Trinity Arts Centre, in Bristol, England.
We threw our two students right in at the deep end, unleashing them on the British seaside town of Weston super Mare. We gave them one day to sniff out a story, collect the photographs and audio, and another day to rough edit the material.
“When we went to Weston super-Mare with duckrabbit we had no idea of what we’d come out with, but there’s little more satisfying in that situation than pulling something out of the bag.
After a wander around the town centre to weigh up subject potential, we agreed a plan of action and with the help of Benjamin and David each did our thing. After just a few hours we returned home with a huge sense of achievement and the raw material for this finished piece.” Ciara Leeming.
The finished result (below) is a powerful, evocative and warm meditation on loss. We also hope it shows what magic can happen through training, as well as the undoubted talents of our trainees.
Please be aware to fully appreciate this feature you need to watch through right to the end.
Zen and art of Sandcastles
What our students Ciara and Oliver have to say about the training:
‘Thanks again for a great weekend, I was thinking the other day that it is well worth the money as I learned so much more than I would have done on any other form of photographic/software/audio training. I have been having lots of ideas to use it commercially.
I will stay in contact and give you guys a ring from time to time if that OK, also if there is any work or help training, or recommendations, or photographs you want me to do, I will be happy to oblige if I can get the time off work as I really think duckrabbit and multimedia is going to take off and I would like to be one of the original photographers working on high quality multimedia in the UK.” Oliver Edwards, Photographer.
‘I’m really pleased to have been one of the first to learn from duckrabbit because I love what they’re about and would love to capture even a tiny bit of that spirit in my own work. Audio interviewing was probably the biggest challenge for me but I’m now actually looking forward to integrating this into my own storytelling and being able to make my subjects’ voices heard.‘ Ciara Leeming, Freelance Journalist
For more information about duckrabbit’s training just give us a shout.
WHITE ON BRUNEL
White on Brunel
tells the story of duckrabbit founder David White’s inspiring project to photograph Brunel’s legacy (the hard way) by recreating the same camera that was famously used to photograph Brunel by the young photographer Robert Howlett in 1857.
Both David and the slideshow were featured on the Today programme and the BBC website.