The document outlines a workshop focused on creating compelling videos, emphasizing storytelling techniques, essential videography skills, and advanced editing tips. Key aspects include finding great stories, crafting narratives, essential photography rules, and practical videography exercises. The workshop aims to equip participants with the skills to produce impactful video content for various purposes, including community building and mobilization.

1. Creating Compelling Videos Workshop

2. Skills you will learn today
 Finding Great stories
 Creating Great images
 Capturing Great video clips
 Creating the story
 The storyboard
 editing

3. Larger Purpose
Fact: 60% of all internet is video
“Every organization is now a media
organization”

4. Hard-wired Story tellers

6. Video Examples
 Stand up
 Silence speaks

7. Why do stories have power?

10. A Story for Double Agents
 Appreciate  Critique

11. How?
 Thank you
 Document
 Training Video
 Sizzle Reels
 Broadcast to tell a story
 Community Building
 Mobilize –a call to action
 Co-create
Eddie

12. WhatMakesaGreatStory?

13. Great Stories Have:
 Point of View

15. GreatStoriesHave:
 Emotion

16. GreatStoriesHave:
 Gift of Voice

17. GreatStoriesHave:
 A Concise Message

18. GreatStoriesHave:
 Pacing
 IRA

19. VideoCritique
 Central idea with action sequence
 Strategies for moving narrative forward - narrative
arc
 Reflection on larger meaning
 Point of view
 Emotional content
 Gift of voice
 A concise message
 Pacing
 Great sound
 In our Hands

20. Narrative Arc :
Room to Read vs The Girl Effect

21. Short form Video Storytelling
 Call to Action Video

22.  Creators Gone Wild

23. Lightening Round Storytelling
1. Make a timeline for your life, plot Big
moments, turning points.
2. Pick one. Write for 10 min about it.
3. Shape it into a narrative arc, identify
“what happens” and “reflection”
4. Select what you will start with first to grab
attention.
Or, brainstorm a list of “firsts” for 5 min. Pick
one, write a story.

24. Elements of Great Photography

25. RuleofThirds

26. ShotVariety

27. Close-up

34. SubjectAngles

37. Subject Angles

38. SinglePointofInterest

39. SweetLight

41. Background

44. DrawViewerintoPhoto

46. CropWhenYouShoot

47. GreatPhotographyappliedtoVideo
 Rule of thirds
 Shot variety
 Single pt. of interest
 Mood
 Sweet light
 Background
 Framing
 Draw viewer in
 Cropping

48. Photography exercise

56. Personal Journey video

57. Using Video Recorders
 Steady hands
 Use a tripod
 Check audio and video before starting
 Pan slowly
 Remember rules of great photography
 Move in close for view and audio

58. Elements of Videography
 The 5 shot list
 The 10 second rule
 Lights, camera,
action!

59. More video tips
 Have sections without music for drama
 Use voice over to paraphrase less
interesting stuff. Save best parts of
interview for your character
 Can speed up video

60. Storyboarding
1. Sequence……”what happens next”
2. Emotional Contour…….”how it feels”
3. Messenger……….”which track delivers
(print/voice/photo/audio)”

63. 6 Story Core Elements
What is story purpose, essence?
Key characters?
Context?
Action events?
First 6 second hook?
Why this matters/reflection?

64. Editing Great Content

65. Advanced Video editing tips
 Walk out of frame
 Cut when subject not making gesture
 Audio leads scene
 Add sound effect when jumping to new scene
 Music can precede the narration
 New song signals transition. Leave a space

66. 6 secrets of highly effective
Videographers
 Step forward, step back

67. 6 secrets of highly effective
Videographers
 The Tease

68. 6 secrets of highly effective
Videographers
 Insert Shot

69. 6 secrets of highly effective
Videographers
 Corresponding Shot

70. 6 secrets of highly effective
Videographers
 Time Compression

71. 6 secrets of highly effective
Videographers
 Point of View

72. Quick and easy social media
storytelling
 Podcast audio story
 Xtramoral
 Puppets on the run blogpost
 Instant Movie in Premier Elements