Are you finding your stories of your volunteer work being brushed aside?
Our workshop will teach you what you need to know about storytelling that will help you engage the audience and increase the engagement of the audience. We will help you by giving you a subject who the organization has already identified as having a story to work with during the week. Each day you will work with your person and get to know their story, and each day, you will capture that story and then have it evaluated by seasoned pros serving as your coaches. They will help you see the missing parts and misdirections so you can work with the subject again the next day and refine that story.
We are teaching you to be a producer, photographer/cinematographer, & video editor.
Location and Subjects
Rancho el Paraiso/Olancho, Honduras (Primary site in the Agalta Valley) – located in northern Honduras; dormitories situated on a fully operational 1,400-acre Ranch; HOI has spent over 25 years working in this area; work projects vary/primarily focused on a range of community development and economic development projects including, but not limited to building latrines, mudding homes, mixing and pouring concrete floors, making eco-stoves and eco-ovens.
Multimedia Storytelling Workshop
REQUIREMENTS
You are expected to know how to use your camera gear.
Know how to set your cameras:
White Balance
Aperture
Shutter Speed
Video Frame Rate – 24 fps or 30 fps for output
Video resolution be set to 1920×1080 pixels or higher
Understand Exposure Triangle
Able to set audio recording levels
You need to be computer literate.
You do not need to be an expert in video editing, but having shot and posted a video online is important.
Your computer needs to have space on a hard drive for the project. We recommend 20% free space on most computer hard drives
You must submit a portfolio of your work with links to online videos and photos.
WHAT IS INCLUDED
- Transportation from the airport to our workshop location
- Leadership by a bilingual staff member who meets each team at the airport and stays with the group until its return to the U.S.
- Overnight accommodations for the week
- All meals while in-country.
WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED
- Airfare: Each team or individual is responsible for purchasing their flights to and from
- Tips ($1 per bag) at the hotel if the volunteer chooses to have a porter help carry luggage.
- Lunch at the airport upon arrival.
- Souvenirs and snacks en route
- Travel insurance (strongly recommended).
- Additional nights during the trip due to flight cancellations
- Snacks
- Phone calls, radio calls, or messages
- Other items of a personal nature
- Extra expenses originated in itinerary changes or circumstances beyond the workshop's control.
ITINERARY Subject to changes
DAY ONE [Saturday]
Arrival
Lunch at Tegucigalpa Airport
Drive to community
Go to guest housing
DAY TWO [Sunday]
Breakfast
Worship
Eat lunch
First class
Instructor Introductions
Setting up a project folder on a computer
Teaching interviewing skills in both the technical and storyline
Practicing our skills with the class
Dinner
Class
DAY THREE [Monday]
Breakfast
Class
Two cameras and/or additional audio recording tips
Understanding Audio microphones
Deep dive into the storyline for storytelling
Create your outline for your story
Lunch
Time with your subject
An informal time where you will be gathering information that will help you prepare for the formal interview
Do your first on-camera with an audio recording interview
This will most likely involve a translator
Dinner
Class Time
Ingesting your files into your computer
reviewing your interview with an instructor
Critique for technical and storyline
Get your marching orders for Day Four
Updating your Story Outline
Return to guest housing
DAY FOUR [Tuesday]
Breakfast
Class
B-Roll
More Interview techniques to go deeper into your story
Lunch
Time with your subject
Second Interview
Shooting B-Roll
Dinner
Class Time
Ingesting/editing
Reviewing your work with an instructor
Critique
Marching orders for Day Five
DAY FIVE [Wednesday]
Breakfast
Class
Overview of using Adobe Premiere Pro – This will give you all the basic information needed to help you know how to put together your interviews, syncing your audio and laying your interview onto your timeline
Lunch
Shooting/Editing – At this point in the week you may need to still gather some more b-roll but also you need to have laid into your timeline your interview. You need to take most of the afternoon being sure you have a basic timeline done.
Using your outline you will arrange your interview(s) onto your timeline
Dinner
Class Time
Time again with your instructors to review your project
Critique
Marching orders for Day Six
Update your outline
Back to guest housing
DAY SIX [Thursday]
Breakfast
Sight Seeing Trip related to our stories
Lunch
Drive back to our base camp
Free Time
Dinner
Class Time
Time again with your instructors to review your project
Critique
Marching orders for Day Seven
Update your outline
Back to Guest Housing
DAY SEVEN [Friday]
Breakfast
PREMIER Event – The community is invited to see our final projects
Lunch
Drive to hotel near airport
Dinner
DAY EIGHT
Breakfast
Leave for the Airport
Insurance
It is strongly advised that you purchase Trip Cancellation, Baggage, Emergency Medical Evacuation, and/or Accident and Sickness Insurance Protection. Camera equipment, computers, and baggage are carried entirely at the owner’s risk. Stanley Leary shall have no responsibility for any lost, damaged, or delayed property, or for an individual student’s medical needs, accidents, injuries or illnesses.
Responsibility & Photography
To ensure a safe photographic experience, you are required to obey local customs and be considerate when photographing people or sensitive locations. The faculty member for your workshop has the right to expel any person from the workshop for behavior that is in violation of the law; that is disruptive; or that compromises the group’s safety or enjoyment. No refunds will be made to any person expelled from a workshop. Stanley Leary shall have no obligation to pay any costs incurred by a person as a result of that person being expelled from a workshop.
Passports and Visas
A valid passport is required for all travel. You are required to notify Stanley Leary as to the nationality under which your passport is registered. Mexico does not require a Visa for US Citizens. Non-U.S. citizens are required to contact the appropriate consular office for entry requirements for their workshop. Participants are responsible for obtaining their passports and visas. To participate in the workshop, you must have a passport that is valid until at least six months after the date on which your trip is scheduled to be completed.