Category: Teaching

Starting to Write Again

Starting to Write Again

 Something I have been thinking for a while now, but never got to it. Seemed like there was always something on the way. But now I feel time has come to do it and I decided to reactivate my writing again. I finished my active pressp­ho­to­graphy career already several years ago (after Sotchi Olympics it was clear that an … 

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La Mia Stanza

La Mia Stanza

I was teaching the other day in Lahti (Video and Sound 101), looking for a good example for my students and I came to think of this. It is a small, simple homework I assigned in Aalto University last year, where I asked the students to come up with a thema­tically coherent story of some kind, maybe tell something about themselves so … 

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By the Borderline

By the Borderline

The past couple of weeks I have had the pleasure of teaching in the Aalto University a course titled Multi­media Story­telling. I think it is the fifth or so time I do it and everytime it has been different. This time it was spread over several weeks whereas last time it was a one week intensive. This time I gave quite … 

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Lightroom- ja Multimediakurssi

Lightroom- ja Multimediakurssi

Nyt kesäkuun alussa pidän Lahdessa LAMK:in avoimella puolella kaksi kurssia, jotka voisivat kiinnostaa. Lightroom (2pv + ennak­ko­tehtävä) ja multi­me­dia­ker­ronta (5pv + harjoi­tustyö). Lightroom: 13–14.6 (9–16) 30€, alv 0% Multi­me­dia­ker­ronta:9–10.6 ja 15–17.6 (9–16) 60€, alv 0% Kuten päivä­mää­ristä näkyy, kurssit menevät limittäin, eli jopa molem­mille voi halutessaan osallistua, mutta kurssit ovat siis täysin erillisiä. Light­roo­missa harjoit­te­lemme ohjelman alusta alkaen lävitse … 

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JOKES 2015 Multimedia Workshop

JOKES 2015 Multimedia Workshop

Syksyllä järjes­tetään toista­miseen Journa­lis­tisen Kultuurin Edistä­mis­säätiön (JOKES) multi­media workshop, jossa olen vastuu­opet­tajana ja meidän DocImages-tiimi opetuk­sessa erittäin suuressa roolissa. Tämän lisäksi mukana opettajina mm. legen­daa­rinen drama­turgi Tove Idström, näytel­mä­kir­jailija Virpi Haatainen ja ääninäyt­telijä Juhani Rajalin. Kokonaisuus on yhteensä seitsemän päivää ja erittäin kattava: suunnitelu, kuvaus, äänitys, äänen­kä­sittely, video­leikkaus, julkaisu, etc. Päivä­määrät: 25–27.9 Espoo 16–18.10 Lahti, … 

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Anatomy of a Good Documentary

Anatomy of a Good Documentary

Spring for me means intensive teaching. Presently doing Video 101 for photo­graphers in LAMK (Lahti University of Applied Sciences). As always, enjoying it immensely. I asked the students in three words describe what they feel is essential in a good film / documentary. And to make things more interesting: one word had to be a noun, one an adjective and … 

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Multimedia Workshop

Multimedia Workshop

I just finished an intensive of multi­media story­telling in Aalto last week. Doing it inten­sively (i.e. 6–8 hours close contact, every day) really wears you out. Trying to stay “fresh” yourself, i.e. not fall into routines, and all the time trying to find out what it is this time you really think students would appreciate and benefit … 

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Workshops and teaching

Workshops and teaching

One of the reasons I have been quiet in this blog has been my rather serious commitment to teaching, which leaves very little time for anything else. Last semester I taught in Lahti University of Applied Sciences (photo­graphy / video editing / multi­media) and Aalto ARTS University in Helsinki (multi­media). In addition I was doing some one-on-one teaching and attended … 

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Regards, Terhi

Regards, Terhi

(Click the image to see the work) The public discussion on bullying has been active during the past weeks. Aamulehti published on a cover of their Sunday edition a letter of an 8‑year old, who is being bullied in school. A very touching letter. Some cynics have questioned the authen­ticity of the letter. I understand this also to be a defense mechanism to … 

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