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
The focus of this and each seminar or workshop is showing how to link
the many parts of documentary development – from inception, through
creative and production, to real world business development.
Includes the Thornhill News Digital Storytelling
“50 Steps To Documentary Success” Checklist
Catherine Person Gallery
319 Third Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104
For Directions: (206) 763-5565, www.catherineperson.com
The Package
Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Checklist - “50 Steps To Documentary Success”
Reviewing Digital Media Devices - Tablets, Smartphones, Readers & Platforms
Design Continuity - Concept, Base Element, All Together, Continuous Improvement
Business Development - Partnerships, Subscribers, Sponsors
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.
Special Thanks To
Hyatt Vineyards
David Adair, National Sales Manager
(206) 284-1951 - vintsel@seanet.com
&
Catherine Person for inviting our crew and guests to her stunning gallery. “Contained”
is the current fine art offering in the Catherine Person Gallery. It offers suspended
sculpture by Chris Haddad and works by printmakers Kim Van Someren and
Rachel Illingworth. The show continues through April 2, 2011.
For Digital Storytelling Weekly Updates
http://digitalstorytellingseminar.blogspot.com/
Thornhill News
Modern Life & Roses
thornhillnews@hotmail.com
Copyright © 1971 - 2011, Andrew W. Thornhill, All Rights Reserved
Thornhill News Digital Storytelling
Californians saw the preview of the Thornhill News Digital Storytelling (TNDS) Seminar last month. We were in downtown Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Theatre Center on Thursday, February 17th and at KCET Television in Hollywood on Friday, February 18th, 2011. Since then, two production companies have started using the seminar checklist for every client -- and one network representative has requested a meeting for greater understanding of the multiplatform process built into the very simple “50 Steps To Documentary Success” checklist.
Did you know that the TNDS has been re-booked for Los Angeles (Mid-April) and has new bookings for Pittsburgh (June 11) and Tampa, Florida (June 23).
But before that, Seattle has the opportunity to learn from the Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Seminar on Thursday, March 10, 2011.
Have you registered at the discounted rate? Did you alert your associates?
The Seminar Agenda Update:
1. Introductions - Everyone will have an opportunity to identify themselves and their interest.
2. Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Checklist - “50 Steps To Documentary Success”
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 tutorial will surely help.
3. 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?
4. Reviewing Digital Media Devices - Tablets, Smartphones, Readers & Platforms
5. Design Continuity - Concept, Base Element, All Together, Continuous Improvement
6. Business Development - Partnerships, Subscribers, Sponsors
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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.
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.
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 a checklist for our seminar. Because there are many who need to learn these processes faster than I can travel the country, a supportive document will 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.
Try these referrals and product examples from the booklet:
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
The Chrysler Channel On YouTube - “Imported From Detroit” -
Oprah and OWN documentaries at Sundance - www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70M1QY20110123
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 checklist 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 list will be complimentary.
For general distribution and sales, the tutorial as a book, will be available later in the year - 2011.
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Schedule
This calendar 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:
March 10 Thursday The Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Seminar
6:00 PM Introducing the Seminar - 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 Return to Los Angeles
June 11 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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A Digital Storytelling Seminar
The “Signature Series” for Thornhill News
http://digitalstorytellingseminar.blogspot.com
Monday, February 28, 2011 – Week 10, Number 9
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Thornhill News Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling As Documentary Process
Creating Programming For Digital Media
The Thornhill News Digital Storytelling Seminar
An interactive production meeting for stories and storytellers
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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.
The 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.
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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I do appreciate your attention and I hope you will participate in the seminars. 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
Copyright © 1971 – 2011, Andrew W. Thornhill, All Rights Reserved
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