Short-term Training: Creative-Lab. Wiener Neustadt, Austria

17-19 October 2019
The goal of the training activity is to:
  • - Getting ready for creativity – opening your heart and mind
  • - Storytelling as a methodology to get started
  • - Theories and techniques on visual communication and visual thinking strategies (sketch notes, visual maps, graphic recording, Timelapse, Video scribing)
  • - Agreement on a common standard we wish to achieve or maintain in regards to diversity matters: avoiding stereotypes, discriminational visual identity, micro inequities within the videos
  • - Learning about legal realities, copyright and copyleft
  • - Video posts processing with music
  • - Start to develop a story board on the different video topics
  • - Learn from each other: share pictures and videos and give feedback
The content in details of the training is:
Day 1: Welcome and introduction
  • · Open up for creativity
  • · Introduction to storytelling
  • · Digital image processing (Gimp, Pixlr)
  • · How to adequately frame the message for the target groups
  • · Input from 2Kroner: Subconscious biases/ bias awareness
Day 2:
  • · An introduction to communicating visually in different cultures
  • · Storyboarding - theory and practice
  • · Practice and technical support clinic - with input from AIJU
Day 3:
  • · VSharing draft videos and getting feedback from the group
  • · Input from AIJU
  • · Video post-processing with music
  • · Copyright questions
  • · Steering group meeting