Programme

Festival Diary

The Art of Photofilm Production - Duckrabbit

Dates: 07 July 2012
Venue: The October Gallery
Address: 24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AL
Disabled Access: This event DOES NOT have wheelchair access
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Time: 10am-5pm
Price: £65

This one-day seminar and workshop run by Duckrabbit will look at the power of photofilm storytelling as a communication tool for reaching wide audiences. 



Topics covered will include:

  • identifying stories with strong audio/visual potential
  • photography for photofilms
  • the art of audio
  • the tools and software aspiring artists need to get started on their own productions.

Participants will be given lots of opportunities to ask questions and participate in the event.

Duckrabbit is an award-winning digital production company that works with documentary audio, still photography, video and animation to make compelling film and audio narratives for broadcast, charity and commercial clients. Duckrabbit also trains photographers, videographers, journalists and communications professionals in audio-visual storytelling and online strategic communications.

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“Duckrabbit do stuff that is that is just, well, beautiful. And one of their most effective tools is the audio documentary illustrated by usually very high quality still images.”
Kevin Marsh, Editor BBC College of Journalism



The Missing

In 2009 Lebanese born photographer Dalia Khamissy set out to uncover what happened to the estimated 17,000 people kidnapped during the Lebanese civil war. A year later Duckrabbit was commissioned by the BBC World Service to follow her story.


Healing

This was one of a series of 2D photofilms Duckrabbit produced for Médecins Sans Frontières as part of their 2011 fundraising and awareness campaign ‘MSF Delivers’.