Interview Day: Sit-Down (Studio) & Stand-Up

This workshop is devoted to our production day. Participants will help set up and film a formal interview using professional lighting and audio, as well as a multicam setup using timecode and real-time monitors

Intro to Video Editing w/ Davinci Resolve

Fox Seminar Room - ODY 125B Owen D. Young Library, 23 Romoda Drive, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, United States

This workshop provides an overview of the Resolve interface, a close-up look at the Edit page, and editing fundamentals. We’ll also explore A.I.-powered masking and transcription tools. Participants will create their own timelines in Resolve and apply their new editing knowledge using our library interviews and B-roll footage.

Advanced Video Editing w/ Davinci Resolve

Fox Seminar Room - ODY 125B Owen D. Young Library, 23 Romoda Drive, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, United States

Participants will learn how to take their video editing to the next level. Topics include adding titles, transitions, music, animated stills, stabilization effects, and more.

A.I. Roundup & Final Reflection

Fox Seminar Room - ODY 125B Owen D. Young Library, 23 Romoda Drive, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, United States

In our last workshop, we’ll reflect on our semester-long video project and our use of A.I.-based tools throughout. Where are text-to-video tools at these days, and far have we come in just the past year or two? What challenges, issues, and opportunities do we see on the horizon with these and related tools? How can...

Intro Session + Generative A.I. Images

September 20th, 2024 – This session will introduce you to the Digital Scholarship Program for the 2024-2025 academic year. We will discuss the program’s structure and goals, and you will receive a schedule of our bi-weekly meetings. You will also have the opportunity to meet your fellow scholars and share your vision for exploring digital scholarship through...

Digital Photography Workshop

September 27th, 2024 – This workshop will focus on the essential technical elements of exposure, composition, and lighting.  Fellows will have the opportunity to improve existing skills through practice and discussion.  This workshop will focus on how to take photographs; future workshops will cover digital image editing and organization techniques.

Editing & Managing Photographs

October 11th, 2024 – Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are key platforms for editing and organizing photographs.  The workshop will cover these platforms and give fellows the opportunity to work with images taken in the previous workshop. New AI-based editing techniques and platforms will be discussed.

Web Design Workshop

October 25th, 2024 – This session will introduce you to the fundamentals of the web and web design. We will consider: How are websites built and conveyed to users? Why is accessibility in web design so important? How do content management systems like WordPress work? By the end of this session, you will start to build your own WordPress site, which will serve as...

Advanced Web Design

November 1st, 2024 – The Advanced Web Design Workshop will offer fellows the opportunity to refine the WordPress digital portfolio sites. Creating advanced image galleries, pages with dynamic content, and advanced layouts will be part of the workshop. One goal will be to incorporate photographs taken in the weeks prior to the workshop.

Audio Workshop

November 8th, 2024 – This workshop will be all about podcasting and field recording — from planning to recording to publishing.  Student fellows will be shown how to use the Digital Scholarship Studio’s RodeCaster Pro, Shure SM7B microphones, along with field recording technology.  This session will be hands-on and is designed to give fellows a foundation...

Audio Editing & Sound Engineering

November 15th, 2024 – This workshop will cover strategies for selecting and using microphones. We will focus on techniques for capturing clean and engaging sound for documentary interviews, and fellows will have the opportunity to try out various styles of microphones and associated techniques for their use.  We will also edit audio with Digital Audio Workstation...