A Digital Storytelling Seminar
The “Signature Series” for Thornhill News
http://digitalstorytellingseminar.blogspot.com
Monday, February 14, 2011 – Week 8, Number 7
Digital Storytelling
Free Seminar Registration For February 17, 2011
Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles
Digital Storytelling As Documentary Process
An interactive production meeting for
The DTR Journey Newsletter
and
“The Food & Beverage Stories” Documentary
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
$20 Per Person – Advance Registration Required
Please register at http://dtr-nationaltour-digitalstorytelling.eventbrite.com
KCET Television, Los Angeles
A Digital Storytelling Seminar
Thursday, March 10, 2010 - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
$20.00 Per Person - Includes Beverages
Registration Must Be Paid In Advance
To Register Go To:
http://thornhillnewsdigitalstorytellingseminar3.eventbrite.com
Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle
Save The Dates…
After consultation with our friends, first partner and the available venues in preferred cities,
we have determined that a schedule of monthly events on the 2nd Thursday of each
month can work. The new schedule begins on March 10, 2011 – after the
events in Los Angeles. Subsequent dates include: April 14, May 12, June 9,
July 14, August 11, September 15, October 13, November 10 and December 8.
Set your calendar!
Digital Storytelling is a hotbed for collaborative development and production.
Team members will learn from one another and your end product will surely
gain from the combined intellect, energy and projections.
Creating Programming For Digital Media
Digital Storytelling
With the support of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and two community partners, we will offer a special Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Seminar at no cost to our participants on Thursday, February 17, 2011 in the Founders Room at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 South Spring Street in downtown. The fun will start promptly at 3:00 PM and end at 6:00 PM.
More than 30 capable storytellers in film, television, theatre, dance, poetry, radio and business have registered in advance for the event.
Just the idea of the Seminar being in such close proximity to Hollywood is exhilarating. The entertainment industries are now using these digital storytelling steps to seek new creative talent, to review works-in-progress and to even build their own television shows and movies.
Try these:
The Writers Store - www.writersstore.com
From Barn To Web To Broadcast TV
www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/01/25/48623/from-barn-to-web-to-broadcast-tv
Oprah and OWN documentaries at Sundance - www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70M1QY20110123
We do have a limit on the number of people we can bring in. Expect experienced publishers, filmmakers, music producers and television executives to be in the audience. Be sure to register in advance for this rare no-cost opportunity at http://dtr-nationaltour-digitalstorytelling.eventbrite.com.
The Seminar Agenda:
1. Introductions
Everyone will have an opportunity to identify themselves and their interest.
2. What’s Your Story?
Participants will have 10 Minutes each to describe a current storytelling project. It will be hard work to stick to initially describing the story – and only the story.
When you get into production, telling your story sometimes is enhanced by the tools you have for telling the story or making the presentation. A strong voice, attire, props, flipcharts, whiteboards, slide shows or video might help – or hinder the affect. Telling the story sometimes can often be best realized as a simple narrative, then enhanced by the storyteller in painting a scene, constructing a photo essay – or changing your voice to play the parts of each character!
Is the environment a part of telling the story – or even part of the story. Is your story different in a supermarket, at the dinner table or on a stage?
3. We also have a story to tell.
The true story of the founding of The DTR National Tour. Our authentic heroes, Ernest D. Dillihay and Dr. Lillian R. Dunlap will be on hand to tell about their involvement.
Plus, there is a rumor about an after-mixer in one of the hottest spots in the newly-social downtown Los Angeles. If you are interested in attending, send an e-mail to thornhillnews@hotmail.com. Full details, including how to register in advance, will be available.
4. Digital Storytelling
Storytelling is not new. Digital options are available for information collection, processing and distribution as you prepare and deliver your communications. When we combine these mighty forces we have the beginning of a magnificent process.
What part of this arsenal can be called interactive? Is a two-way conversation interactivity or are we only interested in digital downloads?
In the scenario called Thornhill News Digital Storytelling, we expect you, the storyteller, to learn 50 simple steps to carrying your thought-provoking story from a real conversation, to easy tools for interactive distribution, to a successful documentary. This requires learning, hard work and dedicated time. Having a checklist will surely help.
Tutorial:
Our first print publication will be the Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Seminar Tutorial.
The title - “50 Steps To Documentary Success.” The narrative will start as the tutorial for our seminar. because there are many who need to learn these processes faster than I can travel the country. A supportive document could help in many ways.
A package of notes, lists and referrals is being bundled into a strong tutorial. There will be additions made to the list and the descriptions of each segment by friends in the media, entertainment industries, fashion, design, and digital media production will be expanded.
Now you will have the checklist you need, resources to investigate and examples of successes in each category of digital storytelling. The agenda for creating, maintaining and upgrading my brand of storytelling covers the 50 items or categories. Each one is offered in the seminar and confirmed in our checklist – to show how to be competitive in a specific category, yet blend them all into a meld that guarantees continuity and continuous improvement.
Remember, the printed tutorial was created specifically for the Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Seminar. It started as a simple service document – a literal checklist. It will certainly grow.
A new creative team will constantly work on changes to make elements more attractive. The whole publication will be updated and refreshed aesthetically within the year.
The preview copy will be distributed on March 10, 2011 at the very impressive Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle, Washington. For participants registered for the Seminar, the text-only booklet will
be complimentary. For all others, this first step will be $10.00. For general distribution and sales, the tutorial, and possibly a book, will be available in April 2011.
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Digital Storytelling As Documentary Process
Meet Us At The Television Station
$20 Per Person – Advance Registration Required
Register at http://dtrjourney.eventbrite.com
On Friday, February 18, 2011 – starting at 10:00 AM, we will host an in-depth production meeting to build the structure for a multiplatform digital media series, based heavily on digital storytelling techniques. DTR Journey Food & Beverage Stories is the title of the overall project, taken from the feature-length documentary that will be released in 2013.
The script is being developed now for a travelogue covering the years 2002 to 2012. The journey in the title is a short description of the travels for Digital Television Report lectures, seminars and meetings by Andrew W. Thornhill. The heroes of the DTR National Tour made it happen. Yet the stars of the stops, visits and conversations are the more than 20 universities, conferences and tours --created and actualized during the amazing years as the United States rambled through the mandatory transition from analog to digital transmission, complete with millions (if not billions) of dollars being spent, the fights amongst the public policy masters in Washington, D.C. and the continuing jockeying for position in the expanding world of digital television and digital media.
The mighty networks, the aggressive studios, the consumer electronics industry and the huge financial options being played in the global marketplace are elephant-sized characters in the background as the DTR National Tour drops in on one location about once each month over this period of time.
Who are the players you would recognize? How much of the change in our communication capability – including Digital Channels, the Internet, Broadband and Social Media – are quietly exchanged.
The thread that binds our travelogue together is the continuing series of breakfasts, lunch meetings, private cocktail receptions and elegant dinner meetings to exchange views and stories about the emerging, digital television based, trillion-dollar global shift in the communications economy that we all saw coming.
Therefore – Food & Beverage Stories!
What better place to host this meeting than at newly independent KCET Television in Los Angeles?
The cost for the full day of publication-building, exchanging ideas and testing our knowledge of the potential is $20. Advance registration is required. The dollars will be used to offset the cost of travel for the crew. We want the real players to be in the room.
For those attending the meeting at KCET in Los Angeles, there will be a full draft of the text included with your registration fee. This is your chance to get started before the first commercial version hits the circuit and the bookstores.
We will allow time throughout the event at KCET to exchange thoughts and gain input.
If this is of interest, check http://dtrjourney.eventbrite.com or e-mail digitaltvreport@hotmail.com for an immediate response. We have a limit on the number of people we can bring in, so be sure to register in advance for this rare opportunity.
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Schedule
In this issue we made our schedule a bit more robust. This will continue to grow and to be more attractive. We can usually see three months ahead, but confirmations come in slowly.
The rough 2011 schedule for Thornhill News Digital Storytelling seminars now includes:
February 17 Thursday The DTR National Tour - DTR Independent Seminar
3:00 PM to In Association With The City of Los Angeles
6:00 PM Cultural Affairs Department Presents
“Digital Storytelling”
Includes the checklist “50 Steps To Documentary Success”
Los Angeles Theatre Center – The Founders Room
514 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
Los Angeles, California 90013
(213) 489-0994 - http://thelatc.org
Free Registration!
February 18 Friday DTR Journey, The Print & Interactive Program Guide
10:00 AM for the Digital Television Report & DTR Support
Presents
An interactive production meeting for
The DTR Journey Newsletter and “The Food & Beverage Stories” Documentary
KCET Television
4401 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90027
(323) 666-6500 - www.kcet.org
Los Angeles, California 90027
(323) 666-6500 - www.kcet.org
$20 Per Person – Advance Registration Required
http://dtrjourney.eventbrite.com
March 10 Thursday The Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Seminar
6:00 PM Introducing the Seminar Tutorial With Special Emphasis On “Creativity”
Catherine Person Gallery
www.catherinepersongallery.com
Seattle, Washington
$20 Per Person – Advance Registration Required
Beverages Included
http://thornhillnewsdigitalstorytellingseminar3.eventbrite.com
April 9 Saturday 3rd Annual Each One Teach One Music Conference
Panelist - Radio As Anchor For Digital Storytelling
The Union Project
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 23 Thursday The Association of Higher Education Campus Television Administrators
(AHECTA) Annual Conference
Speaker – “Digital Channels”
Tampa, Florida
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Partner
Because of our long research time in assembling the Digital Storytelling seminars and schedule, we gathered interest and offers from a nice variety of potential partners. Periodically we will introduce you to these outstanding businesses and link you to the product and personnel. For emphasis, we pulled one company from the list to be able to make them our very first partner for The Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Seminars.
Hyatt Vineyards
Shane M. Hyatt introduced me to Hyatt Vineyards years ago. First through the exciting product line and then with a visit to the beautiful winery in Zilla, Washington. Welcome aboard!
After meeting with Shane and David Adair, National Sales Manager for Hyatt Vineyards to discuss possibilities, David sent this note:
When Leland and Lynda Hyatt established Hyatt Vineyards in 1983, there were less than two dozen wineries in Washington State. Now the total is approaching 700+!
The virtue of owning all of our four vineyards, being vertically-integrated from grape to bottled wine, and our successes in now over 20 U.S. States selling our wines puts our family winery in the forefront of competitive NW wineries.
Add to that our extremely competitive pricing for both the Hyatt brand and our Reserve brand Roza Ridge – the top 10% of our production – and we occupy an enviable position among our many competitors by over-delivering on quality for our very modest prices.
David Adair, National Sales Manager
(206) 284-1951 - vintsel@seanet.com
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First
Our first Reorganization
What you have before you – as information and support for the Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Seminar – was initially described in 2007. Since then, through trials, mistakes and a year on the shelf, the Seminar structure has been upgraded and repackaged to take advantage of the bubbling interest in digital media and digital devices.
Digital storytelling is a tool. It is used by many. It is also a process, and when offered as a part of other developments, it provides a gateway to experts, new methods and an expanded universe for product distribution.
Our presumption, Thornhill News Digital Storytelling as a point of view, has matured, is growing steadily and is well-prepared to accept new partners. This week we will have the benefit of discussing our first reorganization with friends and associates in the communications industry as we all attend seminars and meetings in Los Angeles. Next week, we tell all!
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We hear you! Stay tuned. And feel free to pass this along to any and everyone.
Thanks.
Andrew W. Thornhill
Founder
Thornhill News
Thornhill News
Modern Life & Roses
thornhillnews@hotmail.com
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