I AM MORE THAN MY SELFIE
Using the smartphone in your pocket, the basic elements of cinematic storytelling and your own ingenuity and passion, you can make micro-documentaries (micro docs) that reach millions of people. You might even change the world a little bit.
We’ll look at the burgeoning phenomenon of social media micro-docs, watch some of the most effective, and examine how they work. Then you’ll apply the essential elements of narrative and the basic vocabulary of cinema to a potential micro doc, learning how to find and capture a nonfiction story, and share it with the world.
We’ll look at the burgeoning phenomenon of social media micro-docs, watch some of the most effective, and examine how they work. Then you’ll apply the essential elements of narrative and the basic vocabulary of cinema to a potential micro doc, learning how to find and capture a nonfiction story, and share it with the world.
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Sonia Arora is a teaching artist, writer and community organizer. She develops interdisciplinary programs, most of which are literature or media based; she designs classes and curriculum for adults and youth who want to explore poetry, fiction, memoir, oral history, film-making, digital media. She has published poetry, short fiction and essays, in journals such has Tinderbox, Lunch Ticket and Sonic Boom. In two subsequent years, she was nominated for a Pushcart and the Best New Poets anthology. She lives with her husband, a techie and gardener and her son a cat-lover.