Are you ready to unlock your inner storyteller?
Join the passionate team from Digital Storytellers for an intensive weekend of storytelling where we’ll help you FIND, MAKE, EDIT and SHARE your story of positive impact. We’ll deep-dive in storycraft to help you refine your story, get you hands-on with the latest tools for creating films using your smartphone or tablet and teach you our 10 laws of rapid post-production.
Whether you’re an aspiring filmmaker or changemaker, you’ll leave this bootcamp with the tools & skills to manifest your impact story. Start creating more powerful stories that will shift audience perceptions and behaviours, scale your campaign and help you change the world.
Your Impact Storytelling journey begins here!
**PROGRAM**
Day 1 – 9am to 5pm
We’ll start with our FIND Your Story session and workshop your story ideas using the ‘Story Canvas’, a resource that makes storytelling more simple, fun and impactful.
Then after lunch we’ll move into production mode with the MAKE Your Story session. Be prepared to get very hands on with smartphones, cameras, tabelts and microphones filming interviews and ‘cutaways’
Day 2 – 9am to 5pm
We’ll shift things up a gear with the EDIT Your Story. We’ll get hands-on with importing and editing footage into a short, sharp and shareable story.
But what good is a story if the world doesn’t know about it? We’ll use the last part of Day 2 to discuss how to SHARE Your Story with the world, including how to optimise your videos across different platforms for maximum campaign impact.
**FAQS**
What should I bring?
- Bring along any video or sound recording equipment that you have access to and would like to use in the future. e.g. mobile phones, DSLR cameras, microphones. If you don’t have any – that’s fine! We’ll bring along some spares for you to experiment with so that you can get a feel for how you might develop your kit in the future.
- Participants should also bring a laptop to edit on. If you do not have access to a laptop please let us know and we can arrange.
- Your laptop will need to be equipped with Adobe Premiere Pro. You can download a 30 Day Free Trial here (please make sure it is accessible on the date of the workshop).
- Light refreshments will be provided however you should be prepared with lunch or purchase from a nearby cafe during breaks
Will I make a film over the course of the weekend?
Yes – Over the course of the weekend we will take you through the each stage of our filmmaking process and you will have the opportunity to complete a short video throughout this process. However, it is unlikely that this film will be of use to you outside of the weekend bootcamp.
As you will discover over the course of the weekend, storytelling is very much about capturing the right people and places to communicate a story. Over the course of the weekend it is unlikely that you will have access to the people and places that will allow you to tell your story most impactfully.
Once you complete the Bootcamp, you WILL have been through the process of completing a film and will have all the skills and knowledge you need to replicate this process with your own story and create a great film for public use.
Other questions?
Email natasha@digitalstorytellers.com.au
