Great to see this photofilm on The Guardian Online from journalist Roxanne Escobales and photographer Felix Clay. Roxanne trained with us last year and this is only the second photofilm that she has produced (the first produced with us during training).
All of this shot, produced and delivered, including written copy for an article in a total of three days. Tight deadline achieved thanks to talent, drive, coffee and cigarettes.
Duckrabbit’s photofilm about homelessness and abuse was published on the front page of the Guardian and was amongst the most popular films on the site.
Warning, you may find some parts of the photofilm ‘Be Myself’ disturbing.
So you think you’re a ‘Multimedia Journalist/Producer’? Seems from their websites every young photographer is these days. Good. Now you want to move from saying you are one, to being paid to be one, right?
We’ve just announced the dates for our first three-day digital storytelling training of 2013….The workshop, for a maximum of twelve people, will run from 20th-22nd March, in Central London. If you’re looking to produce photofilms for yourself or your organisation to tell your story in a compelling and powerful way, this training is for you.
Exciting new photofilm workshop in collaboration with the FORMAT International photography festival. A chance for participants to learn the art of photofilm production in a World Heritage site AND have their work exhibited at a major international photography festival.
At the beginning of the year we we travelled to Indonesia with the World Fish Centre, making a film about their work with the Aceh Society Development Cooperative which has been helping communities devastated by the 2004 tsunami. The film is now live on the WorldFish Centre website here. Big thanks to Fiona Chandler, Sam Stacey and Malcolm Beveridge from the World Fish Centre and Muhammed Hanafiah from the ASD Cooperative. Thanks also to photographer and videographer Mike Lusmore.
We’re very happy to hear that ‘The Missing’, the film we produced about the disappeared victims of the Lebanese civil war got an honorary mention and will be exhibited at Anthropographia this year. Big congratulations to the winners Elles Van Gelder and Ilvy Njiokiktjien for their piece ‘Afrikanerblood’ and all the others who made the shortlist too.
The Selector is the British Council’s international radio showcase for the best new music from the UK. The show reflects the brilliance and diversity of British music, promoting the sounds, talents and musical culture of modern Britain to an international audience. It’s broadcast to a 4-million-strong audience in 37 countries and has won awards including Radio Progamme of the Year in Hungary and the prestigious Gold award for Best Weekly Music Programme at Sony Radio Academy Awards. We’ve been working with the British [...]
A look into how the World Fish Centre’s research programme on Aquatic Agricultural Systems is changing lives for the better in Bangladesh.
Oxfam launched their ‘See for Yourself’ UK fundraising campaign this week. Duckrabbit have been working with Oxfam for the past three months to produce a series of TV adverts and photography for the campaign. This January we went to Zimbabwe to film in the Gutu region, at and around one of Oxfam’s large irrigation projects. With the duckrabbit/Oxfam team was British Oxfam supporter Jodie Sandford who had applied for the chance to see for herself what her £3 a month [...]
Six participants from across the British Council’s South Asia offices have just completed a duckrabbit workshop, training them in photography and an introduction to multimedia storytelling.
Robin Meldrum, a former duckrabbit trainee and MSF communications officer has a photofilm about the crisis in South Sudan published on the Guardian.
We’ve set two new dates for our three-day multimedia storytelling workshop:
1. June 19th – 21st (Birmingham)
2. July 11th – 13th (Central London)
Duckrabbit has just returned from a great week running multimedia trainings hosted by the British Council in Tanzania. The week kicked off with a three-hour seminar on the art of multimedia storytelling. The session wrapped up with a fantastic Q&A session with the 50+ audience of people from across Tanzania’s media industry including journalists, photographers, website and blog administrators as well as others from NGO’s and various other professional fields.
duckrabbit’s Production Director Benjamin Chesterton was this week interviewed for Channel 4 about the global viral success of the KONY 2012 video. As Benjamin points out, whatever you may think about the content of the film, it’s incredibly good value-for-money in terms of the amount of publicity it’s generated for Invisible Children, the organisation that created it. The full article is here.
Many thanks to Amanda Lyon and Debbie Kilbride at the BBC Academy who invited duckrabbit to speak on a panel on ‘Visualising Radio’ at this year’s BBC Radio Fast Train with Joe Harland from BBC Radio 1 and Radio 1 DJ Charlie Sloth. A really strong audience response to our Lebanon film ‘The Missing’, and a great discussion and questions too. A podcast of the panel is available here. Also worth checking out Charlie’s web-documentary ‘It’s Grime Up North’.
It was a real pleasure for duckrabbit to be invited to give the multimedia lecture at the Dutch Zilveren Camera Awards held this January in the Photo Museum in The Hague. Many thanks to Edie Peters and Fred Van Der Ende for the invitation and for their hospitality. And congratulations to Jeroen Toirkens for winning the Canon Prize for multimedia on the night for his long-running Nomad project. Here’s just one of the images from Jeroen’s project.
Wow. What a terrific training we’ve just wrapped in Bangladesh. The workshop was hosted by WorldFish, an important research and development institution who are engaged in reducing poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture. From the projects we were privileged to witness they do life-changing work. It was also particularly satisfying for us to be training both communications professionals and scientists. The objective of the training was to understand the process of producing photofilms. And although our training is [...]
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