Former ONPA member Curt Chandler, who is now teaching multimedia reporting at Penn State University, shares news of the upcoming Keystone Multimedia Workshop to be held June 4 – 7 at State College, PA.
Participants can choose a track that focuses on producing daily pieces or choose to do a project over three days. Last year the workshop as held in Gettysburg during Bike Week. This year’s event will be held during the Pennsylvania Special Olympics championship at State College.
The workshop focuses on producing quality audio, stills and video to build multimedia stories on deadline. Here are some examples by Matt Stanley, who shoots for a paper in the Philly suburbs.
Half of the workshop participants wil be students, half professionals. Last year they found this created a pleasant synergy, with the students learning how to find the heart of a story from the pros, and the pros learning how to be fearless with technology from the students.
The workshop costs only $95 for students and $195 for professionals. Hotel rooms are available for less than $100 a night and can be shared by those on a budget. You can registration online through the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association.
Chandler says, “Ohioans are welcome to attend, rumors about passports being required have been greatly overstated.” If you have any question Chandler can be reached at 412-779-2370 (cell) or cwc11@psu.edu.