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Open workshop in online storytelling

Here we go again: Based on the experiences from our latest workshops, we announce the next-. Five days of intense training from August 13th ’till 17th 2012 in the art of Online Storytelling at our facilities in Vejle, Denmark. Have a look at the program in Danish here and in English here:

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Closing a circle

I’m no war photographer. I’ve seen conflict and civil unrest, but war is something entirely different for what I’ve heard. Yet to a very large degree, images of war have made me what I am. I grew up with gritty images from Northern Ireland and some of them stayed. In the mid-seventies danish national television…

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Why Multimedia (does not) suck – an answer to Mike Davis

Today I came across this post by picture editor Mike Davis. While Mike has several valid and well argued points, I don’t agree with his basic premise, that Multimedia/web documentaries lose in storytelling. Here’s my answer, Mike. Thanks for being ambitious on the behalf of online storytelling – not many picture editors are! Personally, I…

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A workshop just like it should be

Over the course of the past two years we have taught almost 20 workshops worldwide, we’ve held a number of speeches on multimedia and the Web Documentary and we’ve received numerous requests on whether we were conducting workshops in the near future in some corner of the world. Well, now we are. Until now we…

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Return of The Guilty Pleasure, part II

- a rant on B-films on a documentary site The shared love of a well told story led you here, so grab the popcorn and walk with me. In the prequel – ‘Guilty Pleasures, Part I’ – I wrote about the ‘rules’ that apply to any B-movie: 1) Within it’s own world, some kind of…

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The Shadow of the Departed and the Bravery of the Living

Well, that’s yet another workshop wrapped. I can’t imagine that I’ll ever get tired of coaching/producing web documentaries. Usually we at BFC are the ones conducting the workshop, but this time I was the guest of a -shop produced by Marcus Bleasdale of VII and hosted by the Bilder Nordic School of Photography. Situated in…

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