Abroad Multimedia
Urbino Project 2022
In the summer of 2022, I was able to travel the Marche region of Italy to a small Renaissance town called Urbino. Here I was able to create a multimedia portfolio documenting the people and places of Urbino and the Marche Region. In this immersive experience, I learned how to navigate as a professional media producer in a foreign culture by working with Italian translators/interpreters to craft ready-to-publish feature stories. I was mentored by an experienced staff, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a team of professionals with experience as Washington Post photographers, magazine executive editors, and major television market videographers to create my story.
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Feature Story
For my assignment I was tasked to report on a Texas-based Opera School, Opera in Concert. Opera in Concert has been taking American opera students to Italy for 15 years with the Renaissance city of Urbino providing the perfect cultural and historical setting in the country where opera was born. I reported on an unlikely pupil, a 58 year old retiree.
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Photo Gallery
A component of the feature story was to include complementary photos to reinforce the feature story.
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Laura Stanell, a rising sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, practices voice and stage direction in front of faculty, Edward Crafts and Heather Ross.
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Joanna Percy (left), a rising sophomore at Wheaton College, listens in as student Lauren Manon (right), a rising senior at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, gives her advice on a note in one of her arias.
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Katelyn Karcher, a rising senior at the University of Mobile, listens to Musical director and coach, Stephen Dubberly.
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Lauren Manon, a student at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, smiles during her private lesson with Edward Crafts.
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Katelyn Karcher (left), Hadassah Misner (middle), and Laura Stanell (right) play around to ease some nerves before their performance at Casa della Poesia.
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Performers take their seats at Casa della Poesia moments before the start of their concert.
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Edward Crafts (left) and student Doug Brunker (right) perform, “Ecco il magico liquore (L’elisir d’amore)" theatrically.
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Hadassah Misner (left) and JT Hauser (right) perform the duet, “Caro elisir, sei mio (L’elisir d’amore)”.
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Katelyn Karcher performs “O mio babbino caro” out into the audience.
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Lauren Manon performs Giacomo Puccini’s “Senza mamma" from opera, Suor Angelica.
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All the members of Opera in Concert perform “Va, pensiero (Nabucco)” for the final song of the concert. Following this concert, the program concluded.
Video Story
The final piece of the portfolio was a video feature story. I partnered with Jennifer Yeager to report and create a feature video story about the Girolomoni Agritourismo, a small, environmentally sustainable lodging accommodation that includes much more than a cozy establishment but a legacy that has changed the ways of organic farming in Italy forever.
Laura Stanell, a rising sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, practices voice and stage direction in front of faculty, Edward Crafts and Heather Ross.
Joanna Percy (left), a rising sophomore at Wheaton College, listens in as student Lauren Manon (right), a rising senior at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, gives her advice on a note in one of her arias.
Katelyn Karcher, a rising senior at the University of Mobile, listens to Musical director and coach, Stephen Dubberly.
Lauren Manon, a student at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, smiles during her private lesson with Edward Crafts.
Katelyn Karcher (left), Hadassah Misner (middle), and Laura Stanell (right) play around to ease some nerves before their performance at Casa della Poesia.
Performers take their seats at Casa della Poesia moments before the start of their concert.
Edward Crafts (left) and student Doug Brunker (right) perform, “Ecco il magico liquore (L’elisir d’amore)" theatrically.
Hadassah Misner (left) and JT Hauser (right) perform the duet, “Caro elisir, sei mio (L’elisir d’amore)”.
Katelyn Karcher performs “O mio babbino caro” out into the audience.
Lauren Manon performs Giacomo Puccini’s “Senza mamma" from opera, Suor Angelica.
All the members of Opera in Concert perform “Va, pensiero (Nabucco)” for the final song of the concert. Following this concert, the program concluded.