Category: Past Workshops 2020

When COVID-19 hit, it brought a whole new set of challenges for the audio production industry.

In this workshop, Lacy Roberts, managing producer at Brooklyn-based Transmitter Media, provided tips on producing in the time of COVID. Attendees learned best practices for remote audio capture, and gained insight on ways to bring remote productions to life, even without field tape.

Here is a preview of Lacy’s remote workshop:

Everyone wants to make a podcast these days. You have a great idea, but where do you begin?

Lacy Roberts, managing producer at Brooklyn-based Transmitter Media, talked participants through the foundational questions they need to answer before setting out — from figuring out whether a podcast idea has legs, to setting a budget, to choosing the right equipment.

Participants left this workshop with a better understanding of how to take their podcast ideas from conception to launch.

Here’s a small preview of Lacy’s remote presentation:

Whether you’re a government official, researcher, business owner or non-profit staffer, telling your story clearly and concisely to the media matters.

In this online workshop, long-time journalists Courtney Cowgill and Anne Bailey discussed practical tips for conveying stories effectively to the media. Participants learned best ways to contact journalists, what to do when a reporter calls for an interview and what information television, radio and newspaper journalists need to tell compelling narratives.

Through practice and feedback, attendees became more comfortable being interviewed on camera and left the workshop with practical skills for better media engagement.

I highly recommend this to anyone who is thinking about pitching a compelling story to the media.

This workshop gave me insights into media relations from the journalists’ perspectives. It also gave me clear guidance on how to pitch my story.

The insights Anne Bailey and Courtney Lowery-Cowgill shared on what journalists are seeking from interviews was insightful.

As was their expert advice on how interviewees should prepare for various types of interviews.

I took away a number of ideas from this workshop that I’ll put into use right away.

Thank you!

Montana Media Lab director and multimedia journalist Anne Bailey introduced participants to the basics of video editing in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Using provided footage, participants learned project organization, importing, cutting interviews, assembling sequences, working with b-roll, incorporating text and exporting final projects.

This intensive, online workshop gave attendees the editing skills to turn video footage, photos and audio into polished, professional videos.

The Montana Media Lab’s Adobe Premiere Pro workshop gave me all of the tools I needed …

… to optimize my use of this complex program in one day.

eli bow
AmeriCorps Senior Leader | Montana Campus Compact

This workshop touched on so many basics, guiding even those of us who had never opened the program.

I left knowing not only the basic components of video, but how to put them together to produce a final product.

Jenny Gessaman
Reporter | Montana Public Radio

Anne Bailey’s expertise and skill level with Premiere quickly lead to a well planned approach …

… to keeping a project organized and efficient.

Mike Post
Assistant Professor of Theatre | University of Montana

I learned many practical tips to create attractive, engaging videos.

As a professor who is redesigning many courses to be more flexible for my students, this course was so helpful to me. I can immediately apply what I’ve learned to my teaching.

Theresa Floyd
Assistant Professor of Management | University of Montana