Audio Storytelling with Lonny Shavelson and Video for the Still Photographer with Aron Ranen

Submitted by Genevieve_Shiffrar on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 2:17pm.

ASMPNorCal Event

Start: 01/24/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 01/24/2008 - 9:30pm

ASMPNorcal's Multimedia Special Interest Group is hosting a two-part event covering audio and video January 24th.

Part 1: Audio Storytelling with Lonny Shavelson
Everyone agrees that audio is a crucial component of a great multimedia project, but it takes a lot more than good audio equipment and proper recording techniques to produce a compelling audio track. During this presentation, Lonny Shavelson draws upon his experience as a photojournalist, writer, and NPR/BBC radio journalist and puts the focus on audio storytelling for multimedia. Lonny will offer lots of tips and explain the type of audio components you need and how to weave them into an audio track that best complements the other elements of your project.

About Lonny:
Lonny Shavelson is a writer, photojournalist, radio journalist and physician whose articles and photographs have appeared in numerous publications: The New York Times, People, Family Circle, Hippocrates (now Health), Mother Jones, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, and the Sunday newspaper magazines of the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Cleveland Plain Dealer and others. Shavelson’s radio productions have aired on NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Day to Day, BBC/PRI’s The World, Voice of America, Sound Medicine, Prime Time Radio and other shows nationally. His photographs are distributed by Zuma, Newscom, PictureDesk International and GlobalAware Photo.

Shavelson has written, photographed, and produced radio stories about health care in the midst of war in Central America; needle exchange programs for drug addicts in Europe; people with mental illness in the U.S.; sharecropping and child labor in the fields of California; Southeast Asian and Central American refugees in the U.S.; the recruiting methods of young skinhead Nazis; TV evangelists vs. gays in San Francisco; towns where families have been made ill by the effects of hazardous wastes; people with terminal illnesses who are contemplating assisted suicide; drug addicts in rehab; and even about people who seek love through newspaper ads.

Shavelson is the author of six books, most recently Under the Dragon: California's New Culture, co-authored with Fred Setterberg (Heyday Books 2007), which will also be an exhibit "Trading Traditions" at the Oakland Museum of California from January to April, 2008. Shavelson's other books are, Personal Ad Portraits (De Novo Press, 1983), I’m Not Crazy, I Just Lost My Glasses (De Novo Press, 1986), Toxic Nation: The Fight To Save Our Communities From Chemical Contamination, co-authored with Fred Setterberg (John Wiley & Sons, 1993), A Chosen Death: The Dying Confront Assisted Suicide (Simon & Schuster, 1995), and Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System (The New Press, 2001).

Part 2: Video for the Still Photographer with Aron Ranen
Video is a vast and somewhat daunting new territory for still photographers. Aron Ranen, award-winning documentary filmmaker, instructor, and founder of Digital Video Workshops, will lead us on a high-energy romp through the video world. Aron has done it all and brings that experience together with his teaching abilities to impart an amazing amount of relevant and timely information in a very short time. And while his focus is on video, he has a lot to say about capturing great audio too. If you saw Aron at the SFBAPPA Multimedia Day in December, you know he’s a fabulous speaker who needed more time than was allotted in that great program so we thought we’d invite him to MMSIG for the extended-play version. For more about Aron and his work, visit http://www.dvworkshops.com.

About Aron: Aron Ranen is an Award winning documentary filmmaker who has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts and a Golden Cine Eagle award. He was selected for the 2001 DV Underground fest, winner of the best short documentary at the SF Indie Fest and his recent full length documentary "Did We Go?" was selected for the 2000 new documentary series at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Aron also founded Digital Video Workshops (www.dvworkshops.com) in San Francisco which has been delivering a wide variety of video-related training courses since 1982, including the popular 6-day DV Documentary / DV Journalist workshop that’s coming up on Feb 18-23.