Learn  |  Professionals  |  Workshop Vision Lab - Media Practice Workshop with Uwe H. Martin

Place:
Centre national de l'audiovisuel - 1b, rue du Centenaire, 3475 Dudelange, Luxembourg
Dates:
From 24.06.2024 at 09:00
to 29.06.2024 at 18:00
With:
Uwe H. Martin
Price:
Normal: 250€ Reduced: 125€
Number of participants:
8

Things were great when you left school. You were full of dreams of traveling the world to write or photograph important stories, shoot notable 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 thread mill spinning, be it on your staff job, where the constant cost-cutting takes away the very air to breathe, or as a freelancer, where you often ship less than exciting work to keep the lights burning and the bread on the table.

Every so often, a story, a project, or a collaboration still excites you. But there are increasingly more times you think about leaving journalism, film, photography, and the creative world altogether. But you are not ready to give up just yet…

If you recognize yourself in the description above, his workshop is for you.

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

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

In previous versions of the Vision Lab, participants have created linear web documentaries and storyboards; developed ideas on how to build a publication bridge from print, online, and mobile into spatial installations and theatre plays; written proposals and financing plans; and developed concepts for tying individual stories into a larger narrative. Others clarified where they wanted to go professionally, identified new markets and audiences, and built a strategy for reaching them. So, whether you are just starting your career, want to give it a new direction, or looking to take your project to the next level, the Vision Lab is for you.

About the trainer:

Uwe H. Martin is an independent visual storyteller, slow journalist, researcher, and educator. His long-term projects, which combine photography with documentary film, text, and sound, focus on the significant environmental issues of the Anthropocene. With his partner, Frauke Huber, Uwe has documented global agriculture’s social and environmental consequences since 2007. Using a slow journalism approach, their projects build bridges from traditional journalistic publications, over linear web documentaries and interactive apps, to spatial installations at art institutions.

As an integral part of his artistic practice, Uwe teaches photography, film, journalism, and storytelling for eco-social impact at universities, workshops, and journalism schools worldwide. He strives to empower people to become independent, expand their scope of action, and bring about lasting changes in society and the environment.

In 2010, Uwe cofounded the international art and research project “World of Matter”, which investigates primary materials and their complex ecologies. The same year, he also founded with 4 teachers “Aggrey’s Dream”, which supported a school in Mombasa, Kenya, with four teachers, a school lunch program, and built a bakery that generates an independent income for the school. Finally, recognizing the urgent need for new ways to finance quality freelance journalism, Uwe cofounded the “RiffReporter” cooperative in 2017, a crossover between a collaborative publishing platform and a business incubator for entrepreneurial freelance journalists.

His new initiative – the “Earth Vision Lab” – brings together diverse expert teams envisaging solutions to the Water-Food-Energy-Climate-Nexus. In parallel, Uwe has proposed a new practice of “Transition Journalism” that explores how journalists and visual storytellers can become agents for eco-social change.

 

Practical Information :

Dates : 24th June – 29th June 2024 

Audience: Professional photographers, professional filmmakers, writers, journalists, photography/audiovisual students.

Languages: English, German

Prices:

-        Normal: 250€

-        Reduced: 125€ (students, jobseekers, intermittent entertainment workers, self-employed professional artists, on presentation of documentary evidence)

Max. number of participants: 8

 

 

Terms of enrolment :

Please send your application with a biography and portfolio to:  formation@cna.etat.lu.

Deadline of application : 13th May 2024


For further information, please contact: 

formation@cna.etat.lu
T. : Mylène Carrière : +352 52 24 24 702

Program overview :

 

Day 1: Vision. Ideas.

Reaching audiences: Media. Spaces. Live.

First pitch of your idea and questions

Positioning

 

Day 2: Benefit. Meaning. Universal question.

Innovative and transformative projects

Why you do it?

How it connects?

What’s your audience?

Project work

 

Day 3: Getting Shit Done

Project management

Organizing large projects

Cooperation and networking

Project work

 

Day 4: Rich and Famous

Funding projects

Pitching ideas

Grant writing

Project work

 

Day 5: Free and Independent

The long tail…

Journalist – expert – change maker

Project work

Final presentation

Starting the journey

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