OLD FRIENDS WRITING CLUB

Multi-media and Video Examples Ray Farkas Friends For Life The Sandwich Generation Common Ground The Marlboro Marine

return to home page This is an audio visual piece that chronicles the courageous story of how Ray Farkas confronted and underwent the challenge of serious surgery to overcome and control the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease that were doing him in. Imagine telling this story in words, converting the video images to description, capturing into written narrative the spirit of the subject of the story and the supportive people around him. This is the story of Arden Peters and Warren DeWitt, produced by Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi.  The two friends met at a shopping center food counter.  DeWitt came to take care of Peters, as Peters wife came to the end of her life.  This is also produced by Julie Winoker and her husband Ed Kashi, about bringing Julie's aging Alzheimer father into their family home to care for him in his declining times.  Very effective film making.  Imagine telling the story in words. This is the sad story of a couple, forced by economic hardhip to sell the family farm, so that the land could be developed into a suburban housing area. This is the moving story of a Marine, returning from Iraq and having to cope with the near overwhelming effects of post traumatic stress.  Luis Sinco, the Los Angeles Times photographer who photographed him in battle produced this story.  It provides a strong voice over by the subject of the story, Blake Miller, and demonstrates the importance of getting down the very words that are spoken, when you are developing a work of written biography. Imagine having this as raw material from which to work.  Decide how you would re-structure it,preserving the power of the subject's very words. Imagine the images you would select to tell the story and how you would describe them in words.