VIDEO STORYTELLING
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Improving knowledge about the issues and opportunities of a neighbourhood or an area, and understanding more about the citizens, their culture and problems.
KEYWORDS
environment
visual skills
digital creation
DURATION
2-3 hours
SKILLS
storytelling
communication skills
digital skills
skills in visual content making
video editing
PREPARATION
Organising a city exploration and a visual brainstorming session, familiarizing and testing easy to use video editing applications.
TOOLS AND MATERIALS
Smartphones or computers
easy to use editing application such as CANVA or YouCut
DESCRIPTION
1. Organise a visual brainstorming about a topic, a concept or idea you want your participants to get more familiar with. I topic such as "circularity" or "borders". Explore the multiplicity of the possible meanings. Confront positive and negative and neutral connotations and functions. (Example: a border might be a tool to protect but also to exclude.)
2. Prepare your participants to collect chort videos by explaining the 7 most important points of video making with smart phone: https://www.re-cult.eu/thinking-of-borders
3. Collect short video captations in the framework of a city exploration tour linked to you topic.
4. Share and review the captions you made during the city tour and discuss their meanings.
5. Dowload the YouCut or the Canva application. Explain how it works (Video tutorial: how to use YouCut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlrC-XaKwew and on how to use CANVA for video editing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3cfqPmKh_M)
6. Let the participants to explore the application and juxtapose their video captations. Tell them to give title and add it to each of them. You can also add music.
7. Share and watch the videos.
8. Share your feedback and ask the participant about what they have learnt during the activity.
BLENDED ELEMENTS/TUTORIAL
If needed, the both the city exploration and the video editing part can be set up as a blended activity: participants can be asked to collect their video captations on their own or to finalise their edited videos independently.
TIPS AND RECOMMANDATIONS
It is highly recommended to explore and test all the tools that you are going to use during the workshop in advance, such as following the recommendations to make quality captations, and one of the video editing applications. The test results can also be used as examples that you can share with the participans to show them what their videos will look like.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
Participants improve their analytical skills through confronting different meanings, functions and connotations linked to a specific phenomena such as border or circularity, they learn how to make quality video captations, they improve their digital skills and learn the basics of video editing.
REFERENCES AND USEFUL SOURCES
Tutorials about the use of video editing applications:
Examples for video storytelling about circularity:
