The Photographic Multimedia

Saturday, May 24, from 3 PM to 7 PM, Sunday, May 25, from 10 AM to 2 PM and from 3 PM to 7 PM.

David Linuesa

When? Saturday, May 24, from 3 PM to 7 PM, Sunday, May 25, from 10 AM to 2 PM and from 3 PM to 7 PM.

Where? Disseny Hub Barcelona

Price 100€.

Maximum capacity 12 participants

Multimedia tools for the creation, development, and publication of projects for photographers.

Multimedia pieces for photographers allow for the enrichment of work by integrating photographs with formats such as video, audio, or music, creating one or several pieces that enhance the author’s concept and discourse in a coherent, interesting, and comprehensive way. Multimedia serves as a platform for project dissemination, communication, and distribution, reaching areas that photography alone cannot cover through social media, festivals, and even exhibitions. We live in a fully multimedia society and need the best multimedia content and knowledge to achieve our goals as photographers.

This workshop will allow participants to introduce and familiarize themselves with combining photography with other languages and supports such as video, music, and audio, enriching their stories and making the most of camera resources to take their projects to new heights. During the workshop, we will analyze real cases and put knowledge into practice using the cameras and projects the participants are currently working on.

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Goals:

To teach the possibilities offered by the multimedia format within photographic projects or assignments, explaining the relationships that can be established between photographs and new formats like video, audio, or music. Participants will then be able to approach and familiarize themselves with the theoretical and technical aspects that allow them to record or edit these new formats for their work.

Emotional positioning, both of the author towards their project and of the spectator’s perspective of it, will be fundamental aspects to analyze during the workshop as a basic tool for cohesion between photography and audiovisual language.

Although this is not a workshop focused on technical content, during its duration and the development of its content, we will reference working with photographic cameras that record video and audio, as well as all kinds of recording mechanisms such as compact cameras or mobile devices. We will also discuss and use file management programs like ADOBE BRIDGE, photo processing like ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, video editing like ADOBE PREMIERE, and layout editing with ADOBE INDESIGN.

Contents:

Current state of multimedia. What is multimedia? What is a hypermedia society? Advantages of multimedia texts: audiovisuals, exhibitions, photobooks.
Analysis of photographic and audiovisual texts. What do we see? What do we want to tell? What do we hear? What sound do images convey, and what images convey sounds? How do we tell it? Photography or video? What are my skills, and how can I develop them?
Approach to the creation and production process. Why do we want to tell it? How can we produce it? Tools for producing and creating video and audio. Analysis of current working equipment for autonomous project production.
Links, relationships, and structuring forms. Global vision of audio and video editing and post-production environments.
Preparation of pieces for different environments and viewing platforms. Distribution and exhibition methods. Recording finished pieces. Production contracts and exhibition details. Conclusions.

Target audience:

Primarily photographers interested in developing a personal vision in projects they want to carry out and in complementing their photographs with other media such as video, music, audio, or texts, whether they are projects in development and seeking feedback or external perspectives for support. It is also aimed at anyone wanting to start analyzing films, photographs, or texts from a critical, emotional, and rigorous standpoint.

About David Linuesa (Valencia, 1983)

A graduate in Audiovisual Communication and Senior Technician in Artistic Photography, he has completed numerous audiovisual projects and has been awarded by, among others, the Albarracín Photography and Journalism Festival 2013, the 13th International Photojournalism Meeting in Gijón, selected to participate in the Olot Photography Biennial, Valencia Crea awards in the photo and video categories, finalist of El Invernadero Award, and selected by the Photography Department of CIPE-Ministry of Spain for the publication of its catalog.

He has worked as a television and documentary director, press photographer, assistant to various fashion photographers, audiovisual manager for theater companies, and coordinator of “Revista VA!” (a contemporary photography publication). He currently works as a freelance photographer and director and as the head of the multimedia platform Àqaba Media, where he edits multimedia pieces based on photographic projects. Among his most relevant commissions are multimedia pieces for Magnum Foundation, Inge Morath Foundation, Leica Gallery, Fuji, the photojournalism festival Crònica 21, the project ‘El Diari Indultat,’ and regular collaborations with photographers such as Eduardo Nave, Lurdes R Basolí, Matías Costa, Míkel Ponce, and Ainhoa Valle. He has also conducted photography and multimedia training workshops at photography festivals such as PHOTÓN, We Are Photo, Santander Foto, or schools like El Observatori, Espai Modotti, La Fotoescola, or BECA (Before Creating) in Sofia, Bulgaria.

In all his assignments, he combines photography and video, covering a wide range of work from advertising, documentaries, gastronomy videos for Michelin-starred restaurants, corporate videos, or portrait photography, while maintaining personal photographic and audiovisual projects that have accompanied him since the beginning of his photographic career.

His most personal work is characterized by developing a documentary perspective based on intimacy as a dimension for storytelling, marked by elements closer to abstraction than reality, prioritizing emotion over description, and delving into the most evocative and self-referential spheres. The editing process for each project becomes a fundamental phase in constructing the final meaning of the work, whether photographic, audiovisual, or multimedia.

AQABA MEDIA_multimedia production for photographers

A platform for creating, publishing, and distributing photographic projects in multimedia format. It works on creating audiovisual pieces for photographers, collectives, and associations worldwide across all photographic and audiovisual genres. It edits pieces of various characteristics, from multimedia for professional photographic projects, documentaries, video creations, video clips, or ‘docu-commercials.’ Multimedia pieces expand the discourse lines of the originating work without diluting the aesthetic, conceptual, and narrative foundation of the photographic project.

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