Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell stories using video for NGOs, charities and corporate social responsibility programmes, to be used on the web, social media or get picked up by news sources. Arete’s video expert will inspire you to create powerful films that have an impact.
This workshop is aimed at people working in the NGO sector and non professional videographers and photographers working with the NGO, CSR or media spheres who want to start telling stories through video. We will discuss what makes a powerful story and an effective video strategy as well as practical information for shoots, taking into consideration budgets, time, security and access. You will get an idea of how to choose and work with professional video producers and teams, looking at various styles best suited to tell your story.
We will go over common pitfalls, learn the relevant theory and lingo, and cover practical topics including how to write creative briefs and risk assessments, and when and how to coordinate bigger productions (narrative, longer documentary) as well as video techniques for social media.
What you will cover:
· Storytelling basics
· Creative techniques to tell more powerful stories
· Video strategy and theory
· Working with video producers and teams
· Setting up and coordinating productions
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference.
Clementine Malpas is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 13 years’ experience in the developing world. Her films have been broadcast internationally on Channel 4, BBC, ARTE, PBS, ITV, ABC, NBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, PBS and Netflix among others. In 2012 Clementine co-founded the London based production company Tiger Nest Films with Leslie Knott and together they have gone on to produce cutting-edge, award-winning documentaries and videos. In 2013 Clementine’s film The Parable of Gulnaz—the story of an Afghan woman who was the victim of rape and jailed for adultry—led to both a presidential pardon for her from the Afghan President, as well as a Foreign Press Association nomination for “Best TV Documentary/Feature Story of the Year.”
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Community media empowers those who produce it, builds the social capital of a community to address critical local issues and gives people full control over their own narratives. And often, it communicates people’s needs to authority and leads to concrete resolution of local problems.
Since its inception, the leaders of Video Volunteers has been asking one key question: what kind of model will enable community media to scale to every local community in the world? Video Volunteers prototyped several different models of community-owned media. These all, to varying degrees, included the following four crucial elements we identified: the intellectual, creative, and leadership development of community media-makers; Community ownership of the content creation process; Solution-oriented stories; and community discussion and viewing of the content.
This fundraising event will showcase the film projects produced with the support of Video Volunteers and offer the audience to discuss and learn about various approaches to community media.
The event is free but financial contributions to Video Volunteers will be gratefully received.
RSVP to jessica@videovolunteers.org or bronwyn.kendrick@www.beta.frontlineclub.com
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell stories using video for NGOs, charities and corporate social responsibility programmes, to be used on the web, social media or get picked up by new sources. Arete’s video expert, Eva Gilliam, will inspire you to create powerful films that have an impact.
We will discuss what is required to create an effective video strategy, taking into consideration budgets, time, security and access. You will get an idea of how to choose and work with professional video producers and teams, looking at various styles best suited to tell your story.
We will go over common pitfalls, learn the relevant theory and lingo, and cover practical topics including how to write a creative brief, when and how to coordinate bigger productions (narrative, longer documentary) and how to get the most of your video on web platforms and social media.
· How to tell stories through video and multimedia for NGOs and charities
· Techniques to tell more powerful stories using audio recordings, music and graphics
· Strategy and theory
· Shooting and editing
· Working with video producers and teams
· Coordinating productions
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference.
Eva Gilliam is a highly qualified video-maker and multimedia editor with strong creative skills and a proven ability to deliver high quality work under pressure and to deadline. She is a seasoned audio-visual storyteller and has trained youth and adults in communications and multi-media skills in Somalia, South Africa and Côte d’Ivoire. Her professional output focuses on media in post-conflict regions covering social, humanitarian and development stories and she is a key member of the Arete team. Eva has 16 years of experience working in film, radio and television, often with UN agencies and local and international NGOs. She has produced films in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Kenya, Liberia and South Africa.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell powerful stories through video and multimedia. You will learn to create an effective video strategy and how to work with professional video producers and teams. We will go over common pitfalls, learn the relevant theory and lingo, and cover practical topics including how to write a creative brief, how to coordinate bigger productions, and how to use web platforms and social media effectively.
What you will cover:
- How to tell humanitarian stories through video and multimedia for media, NGOs and charities,
- Techniques to tell more powerful stories using audio recordings, music and graphics,
- Strategy and theory,
- Shooting and editing,
- Working with video producers and teams,
- Coordinating productions.
Note – because of limited time this is very much a theoretical introduction to video making.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes.
About the trainer – Lauren Groenewald
Arete Stories is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference.
Lauren Groenewald started her career in broadcast journalism in 1991 as a radio producer for Channel Africa. She moved from news journalism into documentary film, which is now the primary focus of her work. Her Cape Town based company Plexus Films has produced content for SABC, Al Jazeera, PBS International and TV2 in Norway. She has produced broadcast as well as short films for NGO’s such as Equal Education and various civil rights organisations. Her work often comments on humanitarian issues – the 2008 Xenophobia in South Africa resulted in the short film CONGO MY FOOT which was part of the the Filmmakers Against Racism collective. She has filmed and worked all over the African continent from Mauritania, Ethiopia to Rwanda, Senegal,Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Lauren has been Chair of the Documentary Filmmakers Association in South Africa. She is also a mentor and tutor at the Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking and has acted as Producer for the Close Encounters Laboratory associated with the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete Stories. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
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