duckrabbit MULTIMEDIA TRAINING
“It may seem fanciful to suggest that one can learn multimedia story telling in just a couple of days, but duckrabbit gave us everything we needed from skills in interviewing and audio editing to image selection techniques in that short time. And did in such a way that left us with a passion to develop further. A transformative experience.“
Gareth Dent, Chief Executive, Open College of the Arts
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Training is in duckrabbit’s veins. Not only are we passionate about multimedia and storytelling, we also love sharing our skills. We have over 30 years of professional storytelling experience between us, working at the highest levels within the print and broadcast industries.
Our training is fun, participatory, empowering and results driven. We do not sit around yawning at powerpoint presentations, we empower our students to create thought provoking work.
duckrabbit training in action
WHAT TRAINING DO WE OFFER?
At duckrabbit we offer three main types of training:
We train companies/broadcasters/educational institutions and NGO’s in photography, audio and multimedia production.
We run group workshops.
We speak at events.
Courses last between one and seven days and are individually designed to fit each clients needs. We very often travel internationally to deliver training.
Typically by the end of a course trainees will have co-produced their own multimedia feature.
WHY COMMISSION TRAINING FROM DUCKRABBIT?
Multimedia is an incredibly powerful communications tool. With a few days training you can harness that potential.
We can massively improve the quality of the story you tell about your work. Integrating audio slideshows or even just captioned slideshows can be a brilliant and cost effective way of adding regular content to your website. There are few things more powerful than showing your work in action.
Audio slideshows and multimedia pieces are much more cost effective than video, often have more impact, and are easier to produce.
Our training is all about empowerment. Who knows the story you want to tell better than you? So why not learn how to tell that story in one of the most powerful ways possible?
WHO WE’VE TRAINED
Members of duckrabbit have devised and delivered training programmes both in the UK and Internationally for the BBC World Service Trust, Birmingham City University, MSF, LCC, the Prison Radio Association, Radio Ethiopia, Ariel Trust, INTERNEWS, The World Food Programme, Bioversity International and many others.
Currently we teach on the Masters in Photojournalism at the London College of Communication.
OUR STUDENTS WORK
Take a look at a couple of our student’s pieces: This first one is by Ciara Leeming, and this is what she has to say about our training:
“I just sold my first multimedia feature to the BBC. It just shows what a good decision I made by training with duckrabbit. 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.“
Zen and the art of sandcastles: watch all the way through to see the depth of this piece:
Here’s is some work that we did with the charity MSF after training their publications officer Robin Meldrum:
“I’ve been raving about how good your training was . To end up with something close to a finished and seriously professional-looking/sounding audio slideshow after just 2 days was awesome.Before doing this training I felt I could have a decent stab at recording audio in the Congo. I now know that it would have taken some sort of miracle for me to get really useful audio. I now have the tools to come back with something a bit special. Thank you.“
Robin Meldrum, publications officer MSF
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT OUR TRAINING
“I had high hopes of some good training from duckrabbit, having seen some of the work on their website, and I was not disappointed. Ben and David were thorough, approachable, collaborative and knowledgeable, and this shone through in their work with us. The training was exceptional.“
Jeremy Cherfas, Bioversity International
‘Ben and David’s productions have been a great communication tool internally and externally. Their easy style of working, originality and quickness in seeing and understanding the commercial application of the work has made the process both quick and a pleasure to be involved with. I have been particularly impressed with their generosity and interpersonal skills in training our staff so that we are able to record our own material.’
Guy Watson, Owner Riverford Organics (UK’s largest Organic Veg Box supplier)
‘As trainers duckrabbit were extremely generous with sharing your hard earned tricks of the trade and very supportive and encouraging in a way that created an unintimidating environment where we could really focus on learning and not fret about getting it perfect. I really appreciated how you broke down the arts of interviewing and recording audio and of shooting photos into such accessible terms. It felt like a luxury to have such accomplished and skilled people leading us through the process so that we could basically leap frog thanks to your experience. Your humble and open attitudes for such accomplished people is truly refreshing‘
Laura Ivers Senior Communications Officer, The World Bank
You can read more feedback on our work at our ‘what people say about duckrabbit‘ page.
You can find out about our rates here. Find out about our latest training courses here and contact us here.