All stories may be told in various ways: using words, pictures or sounds. We tell them to put us and others in a context and to get recipient’s response – make him or her more sensitive, excite their imagination. In photography the genre perfect to tell big or small, universal or individual stories has always been the photo-report. Nowadays, when photo-report’s good days are told to be past, the proof of which is claimed the decreasing number of press publications, the photographers look for alternative way of reaching the receiver.

One of the possibilities is fotokast – dynamic animation based on photo essay, that joins photo-report, video, radio report and sound track.

The workshops in fotokast editing (photography, sound track, video, animation, production) are prepared for those people for whom this kind of presentation may be a new and interesting form of making comments on the world around us. The workshops prepared by radio reporter Magdalena Wadowska and camera operator Tomasz Głowacki will help to gain some practical skills in sound-, video- and photo- recording events that are next going to be useful in learning how to edit a fotokast (leading by Kamil Ornarowicz, Rafał Marcinkowski)


Date: 20th and 21st May, 2009

Location: Camelot Gallery / Św. Tomasza 17 St., 31-022 Krakow

Workshop group: max. 20 participants

Price: 400 PLN

Registration and more info: fotokasty@fotokasty.com

(workshops are guided in Polish)

RADIO WORKSHOPS - how to think with a sound

LEADING: Magdalena Wadowska

These workshops are intended for peope who want to know the meaning of sound in the work of a radio reporter. The participants will find out how to make use of sounds, what is worth recording and how to gain the highest quality. Work with microphone will be also included. The recordings will be illustrated by photos so the participants could gain practical knowledge and get some tips on “watching by ear”.

Program:
1. Radio genres – discussing the forms and its study
2. Subject – about people, about events
3. The art of making conversation: skills in asking questions, listening to a interlocutor
4. Sound zone – organisation: foreground and background
5. Work with a microphone
6. Radio material's structure: beginning, counterpoint, end
7. Music’s role: using ready-made music, cooperation with a composer
8. Listening to different radio forms
9. Multimedia – cooperation of a radio reporter with a photographer


Magdalena Wadowska – ethnologist, soprano singer. For 8 years she has been working as a journalist in Polskie Radio Kraków radio station. But her true  passion is a report. Magdalena cooperates with Studio Reportażu i Dokumentu Polskiego Radia, radio stations Jedynka, Dwójka and Trójka . She is a laureate of numerous awards in all-Poland radio report contests. Inspired by brand new technological possibilities she created first in Poland visualized radio report „Wybrańcy bogów odchodzą wcześnie”.

Awards and distinctions:
2008 – nomination to Melchiory 2007 for a report „Pamiętnik żony oficera”
2008 – II award in contest AUDIO FOTO DOC for visualized report „Najdroższy tateniek”
2008 – distinction in contest Grand Prix PR for a report „Siostry z Kossakówki”
2007 – distinction in contest AUDIO FOTO DOC – Studia Reportażu i Dokumentu and Planete Doc Rewiev for visualized report „Wybrańcy bogów odchodzą wcześnie”
2006 – recording the radio documentary series „Moja Irlandia” about Polish emigrants in Dublin
2004 – I prize in All-Poland Contest for Radio Report „Polska i Świat 2003” for „Sopranista” in category Debuts.

 

INTRODUCTION TO CAMERA WORK – Video or photo camera?

LEADING: Tomasz Głowacki

These workshops are prepared for people who want to know the difference in creating the space, drama, keeping in suspense, presenting the main character among others in photography and film. The meeting will be supported by examples of shots, scenes and films’ fragments.


Program:
1. Editing
- basis for combining the film shots
- what is the difference between film shots' montage and matching photos?

2. Operating art – specific character of work in documentary
-  what makes a shot a good one?
- camera move in comparison to move in a film frame
- how to create a scene? More information on editing
- what attracts viewer’s attention, what should be followed?
- patience, intuition, likelihood
- film is linear – the length of a shot creates a scene, how to make a use of it?
- taking advantage of object’s natural virtues
- support the scene with an object light
 - white balance, mixing lights
- exposure. Digital cameras – the most significant threats
- hand-held shooting or camera stand?
- setting image parameters in a video camera – what is impossible to do in post-production

3. Interview
- basic rules of an interview
- taking advantage of place and time
- camera placing
- changing plans during the interview
- role of light in an interview
- sound
- to what special attention should be paid? – the biggest dangers in interview’s realization

Tomasz Głowacki – graduate from Film Studies at the Jagiellonian University and Cinematography and Photography at Faculty of Radio & Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Camera operator and photographer, interested in documentary, concentrated on a human, its surroundings and relations with world. He makes films in areas of conflict resulted from Islamic fundamentalism. Tomasz is an author of photographs to numerous reports and documentary films, sometimes he presents his works on exhibitions. The finalist of prestigious Rory Peck Award for Features, for original camera work in tough conditions.


WORKSHOPS ON MULTIMEDIA EDITING – Final Cut Studio & Apples Podcast Producer as an editing art

LEADING: Michał Bogusławski & Rafał Marcinkowski

Program:
1. Final Cut Studio & Apple's Podcast Producer PRESENTATION
2. Practice; consultations with the lecturers