Topanga filmmakers, educators and journalist select 2010 SEJS multimedia award

As the Topanga Film Festival prepares for a Monday, February 15, 2010 outreach to student multimedia creators with its Suitable for All Screens competition — five California media and education professionals participated in the 2010 Southeastern Journalism Conference, currently underway in Hammond, La. The 5-judge panel evaluated entries for the multimedia category remotely from the festival’s offices nestled in the heart of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Students must include a minimum of three formats used by a student journalist to cover a single story. For example, the story may have been covered as a print story, with an online slides how with voice-over, and a blog written to explain the behind-the-scenes work that went into covering the story. Multimedia formats that may be submitted include still images, written text, audio and video, and/or social media coverage (such as a Twitter stream from a breaking news event). The submission should be housed as live links, with URL(s) provided to the judges (or, if no longer available online, presented on a CD or DVD).

The Southeastern Journalism Conference, with Dr. Amber Narro at the helm of the 2010 event, is committed to encourage greater interest in student journalism and to create closer ties among journalism schools in the Southeast United States.