Vision Lab - media practice

VISION LAB – How to build a sustainable media practice, reach new audiences, and initiate change

Things were great, when you left school. You were full of dreams of traveling the world to write or photograph important stories, shoot amazing films, leave an impression and help change the world. Yet, just a few years later, „Real Life“has crushed most of your dreams and plans. You are constantly running to keep the wheel of the media threat mill spinning, be it on your staff job where the constant cost cutting take away the very sair to breath, be it as a freelancer where you often ship less than exciting work just to keep the lights burning and the bread on the table.

Every now and then, there is a story, a project, a collaboration that still excites you. However, there are increasingly more times when you think about leaving journalism, film, photography, the creative world all-together. But you are not ready to give up yet.

This workshop is for you.

This is a wide open, deeply personal, challenging and hands on Vision Lab for people with the desire to develop journalism / film / photography beyond traditional limits, reach new audiences, build a sustainable media practice and to initiate change.

The workshop will cover a wide range of alternative publication and financing strategies for documentary work, dive into grant writing, expert status, personal brand and professional identity, focus on the long-tail and explore what makes projects connectable to contexts far beyond media. At the same time you will be developing your own vision, projects and strategies.

In previous versions of this workshop participants have created linear web documentaries and storyboards, developed ideas how to build a publication bridge from print, online and mobile into spacial installations and theatre plays, wrote proposals and financing plans and developed concepts for tying individual stories into a larger narrative. 

Public : Professional photographers, professional directors, writers, journalists, students in photography/audiovisual.