Media Savvy Workshops
Media Savvy Workshops leverage videography skills to challenge the next generation of thoughtful, informed and discerning citizens.
Media Savvy at Peirce Mill
Flip Books & Parlor Toys a Friends of Peirce Mill winter workshop series.
A cozy gathering and fresh blanket of snow, along a trail in Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC
We Are Media Savvy! Developing Strong Voices in a Loud World
Control the Message, Control the World: What is YOUR Message to the World?
Media Savvy at DC Black Pride 2024.
In a world saturated with media, the ability to craft and control your message is not just an asset—it's a necessity. This workshop peels back the curtain on the strategic frameworks and psychological underpinnings that make marketing and advertising campaigns stick. Through interactive sessions, you'll learn how to harness these techniques for your advocacy, artistry, or personal brand.
Animation Unplugged: flip books & optical toys
This family-friendly introduction to animation takes your imagination from sketch to screen using applied principles of storytelling, movement, transformation and metamorphosis. Design and create flip books and other optical toys then watch your creation move across and off the page and onto the screen!
Through hands-on activities, our programs invite students of all ages to become “media savvy” in more than one way: they produce their own video and animation work and develop the critical-thinking skills required to navigate the globalized, 24-hour media landscape of the twenty-first century.
Commercials & PSA’s: What’s Your Message?
An introduction to the fundamental techniques of media messaging and video production through examination, development and production of commercials and Public Service Announcements (PSA’s). Participants develop skills essential in the recognition and creation of precise and effective messaging in mass media through critical discussion, group projects and a personal on-screen proclamation.
My students’ sometimes-silly, always-insightful projects forge practices and partnerships that carry far further than the final screenings. Students are challenged in risk-taking roles and group exercises which forge confidence and self-assuredness in student growth, learning and accomplishment. These skills transfer not only to future video projects but in life.
“N543…”
Interviewing: The Art of Asking Questions
By generating news story ideas from their own life, participants learn how news develops from people’s natural curiosity about the people, places, events and situations of daily life.
