Saturday’s Series of Workshops & Panels is generously Sponsored by Champlain College and Fletcher Free Library
SO YOU’RE THINKING OF SELF-PUBLISHING?
Author Tim Brookes.
Presented by: Claire Samuel and Tim Brookes
An introduction to the big questions, the glittering opportunities and the ghastly pitfalls.
Time: 10 AM
Place: Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library
THE DAWN OF DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Presented by: Author and Champlain College Professor Erik Esckilsen, and students in Champlain College’s Master of Fine Arts program in Emergent Media
Author and professor Erik Esckilsen.
Storytelling—the ability to describe a world beyond the present moment—may be the defining feature and crowning achievement of our species. Nearly everyone is a storyteller, but those who tell stories with great skill enjoy special status and power in our world. Thanks to developments in digital media, yesterday’s storytelling elites—news anchors, Oscar winners, scholars—now compete for attention on a more equal footing with anyone able to craft a compelling story and leverage the digital tools to tell it. A curious phenomenon emerges: New ways of telling stories challenge some deeply held notions of what a story is. So, what is a story in the digital age? Are digital stories true innovations in the ancient craft of storytelling or merely technological variations on time-honored themes? Panelists at this discussion will broach such questions by presenting original digital stories created with a range of digital tools.
Time: 10 AM
Place: Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library
Rachel Salois
Presented by: Rachel Salois
How to create an attractive, interesting, interactive website as an author or publisher.
Time: 11:30 AM
Place: Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library
Author and video blogger Ginger Vieira.
Presented by: Ginger Vieira
One of the country’s top video bloggers shows how to use this vital new tool to reach an audience, promote a book or an event and raise your profile nationally and even internationally.
Time: 11:30 AM
Place: Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library
TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING WORKSHOP
Presented by: Author and Champlain College Professor Erik Esckilsen, and students in Champlain College’s Master of Fine Arts program in Emergent Media
Digital storytelling tools have inspired new ways of defining, crafting, and sharing stories. One of the more exciting developments in digital storytelling is transmedia storytelling—or telling a single story or creating a deeper and broader story experience by using different media to carry different parts of the story. Increasingly, storytellers of all types—authors, filmmakers, museum curators—are using multiple media platforms to offer audiences new ways of experiencing a story, its world and its characters. Some storytellers now conceive of their stories as transmedia stories, often with an element that invites audiences to interact with some facet of the story—or even experience part of the story live. Participants in this workshop will gather ideas for creating their own transmedia stories while, as a group, we brainstorm one. Meantime, check out Pottermore —http://www.pottermore.com.
Time: 11:30 AM
Place: Community Room, Fletcher Free Library
VIDEO BOOK TRAILERS: THE NUTS AND BOLTS
Presented by: Michael Garris
How to make a video book trailer that is potent, swift, cheap, and unforgettable.
Time: 1 PM
Place: Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library
WHY BLOG?
Presented by: Rachel Salois and Jeremy Allmendinger
Jeremy Allmendinger.
Yes, you can go onto the internet and just babble, or you can build a following, an identity, a brand, even a selling division. It’s not as straightforward as it seems but the results can be satisfying in all kinds of respects.
Time: 1 PM
Place: Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library
PUBLISHING IS NO LONGER LIKE A FRIED EGG
Presented by: Tim Brookes
Forget all this talk about eBooks and Lulu and Kindle and CreateSpace: the real revolution in publishing is the way it changes the life of the author-publisher-potentially for the better in ways you may not even be able to imagine right now.
Time: 3:30 PM
Place: Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library