What you can expect at The Kalish
The Kalish is a workshop that has reinvented itself to design a bridge between the training needs of two distinct yet related news gathering groups: Online news organizations with staffs that possess incredible web skills but need help in visual storytelling and journalistic skills; and newspaper organizations that have skilled visual storytellers and journalists but are lacking web skills.
You’ll be involved in hands-on exercises and discussions that include making good choices about individual pictures, as well as, how multiple pictures can, or do not, work together on a news page or the web. You’ll be expected to work from a story budget of daily stories and project work, and create a page one newspaper page with accompanying inside pages for a picture story. You’ll be expected to produce a short video from a variety of assets based on a story board exercise. You’ll get a full day of management exercises and discussions designed to help you, help your staff, move across a fast changing landscape. Topics for discussion include managing resources across platforms, demonstrating leadership qualities at the staff, mid-management and senior management levels, as well as a management panel to answer any questions you might have.
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The 2010 Kalish Workshop schedule
Friday (June 4, 2010)
9:00 am Introductions: The first exercise in editing; attendees will be asked to introduce one another in two minutes or less. And the faculty will do the same.
10:30 Workshop set-up: Members of The Kalish Advisory Board foreshadow the workshop with 15-minute presentations explaining their role in their organization and the subject areas they will be presenting during the workshop.
11:30 lunch (food court will be open)
12:30 Final Cut Pro Session: Faculty from Ball State University will lead an introductory session in video editing using Final Cut Pro. The goal of the session is not to create video editing experts, but to provide workshop participants with the skills needed to complete the exercises assigned during the workshop. Our focus is on the storytelling rather than the tools. There will also be tutorials assigned for InDesign and Soundslides software.
2:15 Break
4:30 Final Cut session ends
5:30-6 Gather near Starbucks in the Arts and Journalism Bldg. Board bus for dinner at Szechuan Garden (Cash bar)
7:30ish Return to residences, remainder of evening free. Short faculty meeting in the Arts and Journalism Bldg.
Saturday (June 5, 2010)
8:30 am What visual editors do: The reality of being a visual editor can be much different than the lofty image many people have in their minds about what visual editors really do. This session provides a valuable reality check about what it’s like to be a picture editor and how to focus on compelling storytelling.
9:30 Break
9:45 Generating assignments/Managing resources across platforms: Deciding which pictures will be published in the local newspaper/website determines how a community’s story will be told over time. Staff levels are shrinking, and the increased time required for multimedia production, make the choice of what to cover and allocation of resources even more critical. The goal of this session is to generate a good discussion around developing guidelines that picture editors can use as they decide what to cover and how to pick the best multimedia opportunities
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Generating assignments/Managing resources across platforms: cont'd
2:30 Break
2:45 Selecting the picture: Making good choices about pictures and being able to articulate the reasons behind those decisions are fundamental to The Kalish. Like any type of editing, picture selection is highly subjective. This session is more about evaluating the storytelling qualities of various choices. Expect hands-on exercises to generate a good discussion about what you need to know to make good choices, and also how to defend those decisions in the newsroom where everyone thinks he or she is a picture editor.
4:30 Break
4:45 Decide and defend: (Continues through dinner on your own) Teams will be presented with a set of facts surrounding a difficult picture decision or newsroom issue. They will be asked to consider all they’ve heard and learned during the day, apply it to the exercises and present and defend their decisions to the entire group.
5:00 dinner (on your own)
6:00 Decide and defend continues
9:00 pm Session ends
Sunday (June 6, 2010)
8:30 am Community Journalism: Whether it’s a website or a newspaper, local news still rules. People want to know about the place they live and to see themselves and their neighbors reflected in local news. Readers expect us to keep watch on our institutions and provide news about local events of interest. Community journalism is also what most of us practice. This session reinforces the value of local news and the vital role photojournalism plays.
10:00 Break
10:15 Legal issues and photojournalism: In this session, fair use, copyright law, invasion of privacy and the pitfalls of jury trials are some of the topics Jan Carroll, attorney with Barnes & Thornburg LLP, discusses. She leaves plenty of time for Q and A.
12:00 Lunch - on your own
1:30-10:00pm Making pictures work together: Some pictures work together and some don’t. This session begins with a discussion of some things you need to know about how pictures work well together to tell a greater story. It includes examples of proper proportion and sizing of pictures and the image sizes inside the pictures (head sizes, subject to camera distances, etc). The session concludes with a hands-on exercise where the teams will be presented with a story/visual budget and be asked to determine appropriate placement and play for page one, to create a picture page for inside the newspaper and to edit a photo gallery for the web.
2:15 Break
2:30 Session continues
6:15 Pizza (delivered to the food court)
10:00 pm Session ends
Monday (June 7, 2010)
8:30 am Critiques: Each team will get feedback on their work. In small groups with faculty, the front pages and picture pages will be evaluted for best judgment, creativity and innovation. The galleries will be projected and critiqued for discussion among the whole group.
10:00 Break
10:15 MediaStorm: Brian Storm, president of Mediastorm.org, demonstrates the storytelling possibilities of multimedia through a sampling of his company’s work. He will share his thoughts on how editing for multimedia is different, and richer, than traditional newspaper picture editing.
12:00 Lunch: on your own
1:00 Audio 101: Brian Storm will give instruction on capturing audio. Topics include: how to interview for audio, how to pick up natural sound, etc, and how to write narration. The presenter will leave plenty of time for Q and A.
3:00 Break
3:15 Storyboards & Exercise: The workshop started with picture selection, then moved to making more than one picture work together, then added another layer with audio. Now we add video to complete the assets budget. The storyboard exercise provides a method for organizing all the different media “assets” in a way that best tells the story. Teams will finish by producing a multimedia presentation.
5:45 Gather in front of the Arts and Journalism building
6:00 Bus leaves for the bowling alley (The group picture will be taken immediately upon our arrival at Munsee Lanes.)
7:30ish Bus returns to Arts and Journalism building, rest of evening free
Tuesday (June 8, 2010)
8:30 am Critiques: The storyboards will be presented for critique. Each team will be required to describe the narrative it was editing toward and articulate the reasons for its choices.
10:00 Break
10:15 Ethics & diversity: Expect a high energy, highly interactive session that discusses issues from the value of diversity in the newsroom to ethical decision making in a changing media. There will be several short exercises and the entire presentation is designed for maximum give and take.
12:30 Lunch on your own
1:30-2:30 Leadership: Not all managers are good leaders and not all leaders are managers. This session provides guidelines for middle managers to navigate the migration to the web and to be flexible enough to adapt to a rapidly changing landscape.
2:30 Break
2:45 – 4:00 Management Q & A: As part of the registration process, students will be asked to submit some of the more taxing management issues they face. The faculty will address those issues in a free-flowing town hall style session.
4:00-4:30 Break and Evaluations
4:30-5:30 Taking it Back: The Kalish can be a very stimulating experience. The faculty leaves time at the end of the workshop for a discussion about lessons learned and how best each person can implement them in his or her organizations.
5:30 Showtime: A video of the high and low lights from the week.
6:30 Bus leaves from the Arts and Journalism building for the Thai Smile for dinner.
8:00ish Bus returns rest of the evening free.
