Lessons in Multimedia Storytelling (part 3)

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Saturday, May 15th, 2010 at 9:54 am

Throughout this quarter, Flip the Media will be featuring some of the best video projects from the winter Multimedia Storytelling classes.

“Molly Nordstrom talks about her 2009 Climb for the Community Experience” by Madeline Moy

The subject of this video was Molly Nordstrom, the current board chair of United Way of King County who participated in our 2009 Climb for the Community. In the video, Molly shares what it was like to climb Mount Rainier and participate in this fundraiser for people in need. The goal of the video was to get prospects for the 2010 Climb interested and excited about participating.

I shot it with a Kodak Zi8 and a JVC DV-500, used a Rode shotgun microphone for sound and edited with Adobe Premiere.

On the advice of fellow MCDMer and interviewer extraordinaire Ross Reynolds, I worked really hard to take Molly back to the moment of doing the climb up Rainier. And then once I got her there, I had her do most of the talking. My follow-up questions consisted mostly of “What happened next? And then what?”

I also learned to shut up and listen when interviewing someone. Let your subject do most of the talking and wait until he or she is completely finished before you chime in.