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Speaker: Gayane Mirzoyan
Date: Monday, October 9
Time: 17:30 (Yerevan Time)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Location: Zoom
About the Speaker:
Gayane Mirzoyan is an experienced multimedia reporter with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry. She has worked for IWPR, International Alert, BBC Media Action, ChaiKhana.media, and has contributed as a fixer to international reporting, including German National Radio, Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Deutsche Welle, etc. Gayane is a media educator with about 10 years of experience, delivering workshops and mentoring for BBC Media Action projects, as well as Armenian Red Cross Society, Interlink Academy (Germany), science popularization initiative Gituzh (Armenia), and others.
Workshop Overview:
After this webinar, our target audience will be able to create short video stories (including Reels and YouTube shorts) about their projects/initiatives.
Structure:
Storytelling basics (hero’s journey, what makes the story interesting)
How to tell the story through reels (best examples)
Practical assignment: build a storyboard for the story.
Smartphone as a tool of a storyteller (how to enhance the technical potential of the phone – settings, additional lenses, stabilizers, microphones, applications, etc.)
Frame composition (mobile photo/video): Rule of Thirds, Symmetry, Leading Lines, Layers, etc.
Light in photography and videography, how to improve light using materials at hand (smartphone light, white paper, etc.)
How to work with sound (microphone types, inside and outside filming, what you can improve with software)
Homework assignment: film a reel based on the storyboard assignment and get feedback from Gayane and Ruzan.