Deep West Video Primer
In this half-day workshop, Hal Cannon & Taki Telonidis discuss how to combine still images with voice and music to produce video essays about the West. Topics will include the fundamentals of good storytelling, conducting interviews, voice recording, and building a video timeline. Participants will be encouraged to use these skills to produce videos that can be entered in the Western Folklife Center’s popular Deep West Video program. The mission of Deep West Videos is to tell first-hand stories from the rural West that are rooted in the values of life on the land. They are a great opportunity for you to get your work out there and seen!
Workshop Instructors
Taki Telonidis is the media producer for the Western Folklife Center in Salt Lake City. Since 1998, he and colleague Hal Cannon have produced more than one hundred radio features about life in the American West. Their work airs regularly on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, and they’ve been regular contributors to Marketplace and Savvy Traveler. Taki’s video work includes Red Rock Rondo, a one-hour music documentary about Zion National Park, and Why the Cowboy Sings, which aired nationally on PBS in 2003. Telonidis came to the West from NPR in Washington, where between 1994 and 1998 he was Senior Producer of Weekend All Things Considered. In 1995 the show was awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for Breaking News. Telonidis has also received the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold and Silver Awards, and a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award.
Hal Cannon is the founding Director of the Western Folklife Center and its famous child, the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. He has published dozens of books and recordings on the folk arts of the West. He has received three Wrangler Awards from the Cowboy Hall of Fame, the 1998 Will Rogers Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Folklore Society’s Botkin Award, and both the Arts and Humanities Governor Awards in Utah. He currently directs Media Programs for the Center and along with producer Taki Telonidis completed an Emmy Award winning TV documentary, Why the Cowboy Sings. They also produce regular features for NPR’s Weekend Edition including their regular radio series, What's in a Song. Their most recent music documentary is Red Rock Rondo: A Zion Canyon Song Cycle.
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Workshop Session Details
Thursday, March 11 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Thursday, March 11 - 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Cost is $55.00
To sign up, visit the Registration Page.
Red Rock Rondo
Red Rock Rondo, a one-hour high-definition music documentary filmed on location in Zion, and a signature project of Zion National Park's "A Century of Sanctuary" anniversary celebration, was produced by Hal Cannon and Taki Telonidis for the Western Folklife Center.
Red Rock Rondo performed an evening concert at Shooting the West XX.