Professional Certification in Smartphone Video Storytelling
Course Information
| Start Date | 14 Oct 2020, Wednesday |
| End Date | 15 Oct 2020, Thursday |
| Time | 9am to 5pm |
| Venue | 100 Orchard Road Concorde Hotel #04-100 Singapore 238840 |
| Fee | $990 (excluding GST) Inclusive of refreshments, lunch, and course materials |
| Contact | Roshini | 6720 3333 | training.aventis@gmail.com |
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Introduction
Storytelling style videos are becoming increasingly common for one simple reason – they work. They have the potential to capture your audience’s interest and go viral. Creating these engaging and compelling stories doesn’t require you to be a “tech god” with knowledge on high-end editing software. A working mobile device with a decent camera is good enough to shoot your footage. Once you’ve mastered the how-to of mobile video storytelling, you will be able to successfully tell your story and engage your social media audience.
In this 2-day program, you will learn how to plan, shoot, and edit a video with just your mobile device. You will also gain effective tips and useful insights on how to shoot professional videos and how you can increase your reach and engagement through good storytelling. By the end of the course, you will learn how to create compelling videos for your social media platforms.
Course Highlights
In this 2-day course, you will:
- Learn how to convert your message into a story using the storytelling framework
- Learn 3 key camera skills in shooting videos with your smartphone (no need for fancy or expensive apps)
- Learn how to edit and produce your videos like a pro
Target Audience
This course is designed for all levels of storytellers.
- Business owners who want to use videos to promote their business
- Digital content producers and bloggers
- Sales and marketing executives who want to build their brand
- Professionals in-charge of producing client-facing videos to be distributed via the organisation’s social media platforms and creative/storyboarding
Prerequisite
Participants must be responsible for communication of their organisation’s message (e.g. marketing, PR, social media). Basic computer knowledge is required. Participants are required to bring their smartphone and laptop.
Course Outline
Audience – How to identify your target audience
– Leveraging analytics to understand the demographics and psycho-graphics
– Develop an empathy map highlighting their needs and desires
– Construct an avatar for your target audienceStorytelling Formula – The 3 key elements of a great story
– Understand different types of story
– Map target audience’s needs/desires to your product/service features
– Inject your brand’s unique value proposition into the storyHands-on – Pick your story
– Participants to decide/choose their preferred story typeFormats – The different formats that work best for different platforms
– What are the different formats
– What format is most optimal for the most popular platforms
– Hands-on – Identify the most optimal format for their storyCamera – The 3 key things that make your video look great
– Lighting: how to use a soft-light (indoor) and how to use a reflector (outdoor)
– Audio: type of external microphones
– Framing: how to compose a shot for a specific sceneHands-on – Try out equipment
– Participants to try out the equipment
– Participants to finalize how they want their videos to beHands-on – participants to record their videos
Editing – Fundamentals of editing your video
– A step-by-step tutorial on using Camtasia by Techsmith (software offers a 7-day free trial)Hands-on – Participants to edit their videos
– Participants will edit their footage into a 1-2 min video
– Participants to submit their final footage for feedback by the facilitator
Business & Video Strategist: Melvyn Tan
Melvyn is the founder of Befinity Media, a digital media agency focusing on helping smart businesses accelerate their growth by using videos to dominate search and social. He founded LINE consulting, a boutique strategy advisory firm in Singapore. Leveraging his 14 years of experience as a business strategist, Melvyn and his team formulate strategies to help businesses leverage videos to reach their intended audience.
He’s a highly sought-after trainer and speaker due to his diverse skill set. He is a video evangelist and is LinkedIn’s top video creator in Asia. He is also a growth hacker on Facebook and a vlogger on YouTube. He has spoken at numerous events including LinkedIn local events in Singapore and has conducted training for Institute for Adult Learning, SGH, Centre for Career Excellence, and Citibank
Testimonials
“Melvyn is one of the finest LinkedIn video strategists I’ve met. He has his heart in it. He is passionate about it. He captures people’s attention. I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for a LinkedIn video strategy.”
Ivan Temelkov, CEO, Razor Sharp Digital
“Melvyn helped to make the first video for me as an Executive Coach. He has a way of helping me feel more comfortable in front of the camera, Melvyn was also accommodating and helpful during the editing phase. I will advise whoever who worked with Melvyn to have at least 1 phone conversations during the editing phase to align the objective of the video and communicate changes.”
Samuel Yeo, Executive Coach
“It has never occurred to me to create informational videos on LinkedIn until I saw Melvyn started doing it last year. His videos were engaging, entertaining and educational. I wanted to do the same but I didn’t know how to. That’s when I decided to approach Melvyn. Through a consultative and hands-on process, Melvyn showed me how to create enthralling videos. I would highly recommend him to anyone who needs professional advice on using videos to strategize their business.”
Terence Chiew
