Post on 13-Jul-2020
The Tech of Visual StorytellingBrian Crawford
BC/DC Ideas
Stories
Stories are about people
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Stories are Interesting !
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Everyone Has a Story !
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Everyone Has a Story !
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Everyone Has a Story !
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stories Make us feel !
PhotographyDigital Curation
Infographic + WebiPhoneography
Photo + Story
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Photos Help Us Connect !
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Story Transcends !
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Find the parts of the person that tell the story !
HONY ProcessBe calm
Be open + Friendly Broad questions
Follow up questions to get more specific Keep going
Digital Curation
Great way to curate your story when you have multiple voices or sources
Great for a long-term/unfolding story
Doesn’t have to be serious
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Easy slide show storytelling with digital curation tools
Infographic + Web
An infographic tells a story.
Create your own basic infographic
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New Options !
Easy to use Lots of features Free option for nonprofits Big savings for Pro plan
Easy to use Not as feature-rich Free Only shares jpgs
Brand new Private Beta Able to manipulate charts Pricing unknown after Beta
How to Wrangle Your infostory
1. Identify the purpose. !!2. Collect & analyze data. !!3. Check that data supports purpose. !!4. Which data is most important? Create a hierarchy for your information. !!5. How will you show the data?
6. Design to the final size. !!7. Draw a wireframe. !8. Is it clear? !9. Create a visual language. !!10. Make it flow. !!11. Check, double-check, and triple-check everything.
How to Wrangle Your infostory
Put your story out there
Show not only the problem, but your solutions
iPhoneography
create with what you have
Get ideas for your shoots - storyboards
Get control over your camera’s exposure and focus
Edit and add titles to your video quickly
Combine with an external microphone to record good audio
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Video !
Basic editing
Text overlays
Grunge, textures and general craziness
Last filters and publishing
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Vine + Instagram
How they’re the same & different
6 second video 15 second video
Upload video? Kind of. Upload video? Yes.
Demo skews younger Focused on “beauty”
Humor rules Lots of corporate players in Instavids
Some ideas to get you started
Give a thank you shoutout
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Test new ways to educate
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Blow our minds
Some ideas to get you started
Reinforce your mission
Some ideas to get you started
Give us a sneak peek
#Power
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Practice, Practice, Practice
Go tell awesome stories