TOW: eLearning Multimedia

The TOW (transmedia online workshop*) is an experimental learning environment for conveying the art and craft of multimedia storytelling, supported by the Knight Prototype Fund. (For now the instructor-led workshops are over.)

Our free, instructor-less TOW Basics is open in concert with the TOW Facebook Group where self-guided learners can post their assignments and discuss each other’s work.

TOW Course Overview

• TOW Basics: Multimedia Storytelling
• 1 TOW: Photo Interviews
• 2 TOW: Audio Interviews
• 3 TOW: Video Interviews
• 4 TOW: Story Pitch
• 5 TOW: Record Elements
• 6 TOW: Rough Edit
• 7 TOW: Story Revision
• 8 TOW: Final Version

TOW Learning Resources

• “Interviewers on Interviewing” (collected quotes and links)
• YouTube Playlist “Interviewers on Interviewing”
• “Story Structure” (collected quotes and links)
• “Narration: Writing for the Ear”

Transom/TOW Features

• “How To Shoot B-Roll” (by Slavik Boyechko)
• “Pro Tools: 1 Overview” | “2 Editing Basics” | “3 Mixing Basics” (by Jeff Towne)
• “The Camera Is Only A Tool” (by Julián Cardona)
• “A Brief History of Documentary Forms” (by Scott Carrier)
• “Edit: Send It to the Basement” (by Larry Massett)
• “Talking to Strangers” (by Aaron Henkin & Wendel Patrick)
• “Interviewing Performing Artists… & Others: A Practical Guide” (by Virtuoso Voices)
• “Signal to Noise” (by Scott Carrier)
• “iPhone PCM Recorder”
• “SHOUT OUT: A Kid’s Guide to Recording Stories” (update)
• “The Basics” (update)
• “The Transom Mic Shootout: Blindfold Test” (update)
• “Walter Murch” (update)
• “In Verse: The Making of ‘Women of Troy'” (update)

* Formerly, the “Transom Online Workshop“. Support by Knight Foundation and Transom; top photo by Tadpull.