Learn to craft a compelling story, to engage your audience and spark action.
Get hands on with accessible technology and learn techniques to capture great footage and audio.
Get step-by-step guidance on how to edit footage on your smartphone, tablet or laptop.
Discover best practice for sharing your story far and wide, through both online and offline channels.
Many thanks to the Queensland Government for supporting this project through the Queensland Social Enterprise Council.
This course is being offered FREE by QSEC – Queensland Social Enterprise Council.
(The total course value is $1,250 AUD per organisation, including webinars, access to the learning portal, 1:1 consultation and support and access to editing software.)
This is a tricky question as it will completely depend on the story you are creating and your current skill level. However, the following is an estimate of how your time will be spent.
Week | Lesson | Task | Time commitment (excluding webinars) |
1 | Find Your Story | Story Canvas | approx. 2-3 hours |
2 | Make Your Story | Interview questions, shot list, practice footage | approx. 2-3 hours |
3 | None | Film your story! | Anywhere from 2 hrs to 1 day, depending on complexity of story and locations |
4 | Edit Your Story 1 | Edit 1: interviews and cutaways | approx. 4 hours |
5 | Edit Your Story 2 | Edit 2: Add music, titles and transitions | approx. 4 hours |
6 | Share Your Story | Simple outreach strategy & submit finalised film | approx. 4 hrs |
We will be scheduling the webinars on a Tuesday. However, we’ll run a Doodle poll with successful participants to finalise a time.
Equipment:
Software:
*Note – this software will be provided to you FREE for the duration of the program*
We recommend that you nominate two team members to participate in the program. We recommend this to be a combination of core team members, who know your story deeply, but also involving other team members who may be more interested in participating in the “tech” side of things (e.g. filming, and editing). They should also be able to commit the time allocated (see above). You could also consider volunteers, interns or student placements, or others particularly interested in digital media, who might get value out of participating in the course and learning the skills
Reach out to workshops@digitalstorytellers.com.au – but hurry! Applications close July 5th.