This is a cross-post from the Open Knowledge blog, by Heather Leson, Community Engagement Director at Open Knowledge.
Happy June! We have a special Community Sessions to announce. OKFestival is almost a month away. Videos are key for storytelling, so we are hosting a Video Skillshare to help us all learn.
Take a Video: Preparing for OKFestival
Storytelling is key to building Open. Join Sam Muirhead of Cameralibre and the Open Knowledge team to learn some tips and tricks about video. We are preparing for OkFestival and hope this skillshare helps everyone.
- Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014
- Time: 9:30 EDT/13:30 UTC/14:30 BST/15:30 CST
- Our guest is Sam Muirhead.
- Duration: 1 hour (This will be recorded)
- Register
We’ll cover some topics like: What you need to think about before and during shooting to make sure footage is high quality and relevant, Hard-to-fix but easy-to-avoid mistakes, Tips and tricks for editing a simple interview or event video and some VERY basic technical guidelines eg. what settings to use for recording, exporting, etc.
Sam was kind enough to share some resources: