Editors Retreat 2009
Retreat Alumni, Steve Bayes
An Exclusive Summit For Experienced Editors, Jan 28 - Feb 1, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

PEER PRESENTATIONS

Call for Peer Presentations: Editors Retreat 2009

Thank you for your interest in submitting a session idea for the Editor’s Retreat 2009.

Deadline:

From now until December 1st, you can submit a session idea that you would present. Presenters get a $500 discount off the registration price.

While the Editors Retreat is platform agnostic, favoring no specific tool over another, the Peer Presentations are permitted for skilled editors to show/mention their favorite choices and tools in completing their work.

Past presentations have included:

  • Producing from the Editor's Chair: The Hurricane Katrina Project (Stig Daniels); Avid
  • Cutting the Independent Film (Abba Shapiro); Final Cut Pro
  • Documentary Work and Workflow (Steve Audette); Avid

These presentations are limited to 75 minutes (be aware of this as you suggest and plan your presentation). Aim for exciting topics that you think your colleagues would find interesting, informative, revolutionary or evolutionary (Like editing, being concise is critical). Between now and the retreat, you may find your session evolves and changes. This is very normal for this sort of presentation.

When preparing for your presentation, consider these common criticisms:

  • Speaker could have gone longer.
  • Speaker wasn’t focused.
  • Speaker didn't talk about topic.
  • Speaker wasn't organized.

All of these are symptoms of the same problem. The key to a good presentation is planning and pacing for the duration of your talk.

Questions to answer in your submission

(Answers to these questions are necessary in helping the Program Manager determine the best variety of sessions and topics):

  • What is the topic of your presentation (Feel free to ask for help on the title)?
  • What are the key things you intend to communicate during your presentation? (We’d like to hear at several key points to help us evaluate your session.)
  • What software/hardware tools would you focus around?

Approval

After your session is approved, we will be contacting you to request more details. You will be required to submit an outline approximately 30 days prior to the Retreat. The main portion of your outline should contain clear bullet points listing the concepts you plan to cover. The goal of the outline is to map out your ideas and structure them into something cohesive and concise.

We look forward to hearing from you. If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact Iva Radivojevic.

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