Workshop Design
Microphone Check (aka “Is This Thing On?”) | Introduction to Sound Recording
By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe, 2009. Quality sound recording is often sadly neglected in community media production. This simple activity helps participants get familiar with their microphones and helps the crew make thoughtful choices in how they record location sound. Goals...
Introduction Circle | A Simple Warmup For Names and New Groups
This is a simple warmup exercise designed to introduce new groups to each other and their workshop facilitators in a casual, fun and simple way. This can be most useful to try to help participants remember each other's names as well as getting a glimpse at each...
Storytelling Prompts | Finding Topics to Explore
Morgan Sully, 2010. Coming up with a worthy topic for a story can be tricky, but it doesn’t have to be. Here’s a few prompts to get you started. Participants Can work for small or large groups. Not much technology is needed for this activity. Skills/Technique This...
High School Confessions | Create an Improvised Video
Elias, 2009. High School Confessions is an exercise suitable for small groups of High School students that will generate a funny and insightful representation of the school experience. Students will share both real and imaginary stories about themselves or their...
How to Make a Short Film in a Week
Elias, 2009. Making a first-time short film with a group of young people or community members can be an extremely rewarding and insightful exercise for everybody involved. The group gets to express themselves in a creative way and dives head-first into the...
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