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What You Should Keep When Selling Your Documentary Film By Anna Darrah & Jilann Spitzmiller With film distribution evolving as quickly as technology is adapting to meet consumers’ needs, it’s a tough time to keep up with the best way to get your film out to the world. The great thing is that any and…

What to Expect at our Podcasting Workshop Many people consider the process of audio production to be daunting: monitoring levels and splicing together a recording in Adobe Audition is a foreign experience to most. Ben Manilla, long-time radio personality and podcasting instructor, understands those challenges and quickly puts students’ minds at ease. That’s one reason…

An Interview with Richard Koci Hernandez   Watch Richard Koci Hernandez, Berkeley Advanced Media Institute instructor and multimedia expert, tell the story of the photo that took him six years to capture. The photo, which was taken right outside the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, is the result of Koci waiting six years for the…

Engage your Audience with New Media Imagine a college student attempting to watch a silent film today. Their mind would struggle to focus on something without sound, color, gifs, scrolling! Even sitting a 20-something down in front of a website from 10 years ago wouldn’t hold their interest for long. The tastes of today’s audiences are…

Ben Manilla on the Power of Podcasting An expert in creative sound production, Ben Manilla teaches the Podcasting: Telling Stories in Sound workshop at the Berkeley Advanced Media Institute. In this video interview, he shares his insight into what makes audio storytelling so powerful. According to a recent study released by Edison Research, 1 in…

Berkeley Advanced Media Institute & Berkeley Tableau User Group Present: Lutz Finger Reserve your seat Berkeley Advanced Media Institute has partnered with Berkeley Tableau User Group to bring Lutz Finger, renowned data scientist, to Berkeley. He will be presenting a keynote on the future of data and the media industry. All are welcome to attend the…

5 Ways to Tell a Story in 2016 It’s been a while since we relied on gathering around the fire to hear a story. People now turn to many forms of digital media to get the information they want to know. Here are 4 important storytelling tools to make use of in 2016: 1. VIDEO…

Stories in Sound with Ben Manilla December 9, 2015 As podcasting workshop alumna Nadine Sebai describes in the segment above, producing a successful podcast requires a few key ingredients, including a compelling story, narration and natural sounds, but award-winning radio journalist Ben Manilla knows the extra magic needed to bring an audio story to life.…