Video Storytelling: A Compelling Tool for Connecting People

This morning Jenny Rebholz (of PushPoint Marketing) and myself gave a talk on video storytelling for the SMPS Wisconsin members. It felt really good to talk about my passion and I hope all of the attendees were able to walk away with new ways of thinking how to approach telling their stories with video.

Resources

Stillmotion and the crew at learnstory.org deserve all the credit for the process I now integrate into every story I capture.

The slides that were used in the presentation can be found here:

Slideshare

These are the stories that were part of the presentation (in order of appearance):

A vendor story from Street Roots, Portland Oregon's award-winning street newspaper, published weekly on Fridays. The Street Roots newspaper offers a flexible income opportunity to homeless and low-income individuals experiencing poverty and homelessness; the vendor purchases the paper for $0.25 and sells it for $1.00, keeping all profit and tips. Street Roots is a proud member of International Network of Street Papers and the Society of Professional Journalists. Read online at http://news.streetroots.org/ Mission: Street Roots creates income opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and poverty by producing a newspaper and other media that are catalysts for individual and social change. Your support matters: http://www.streetroots.org/ This film was generously donated to Street Roots as part of Stillmotion's storytelling workshop. View their work at http://www.stillmotion.ca/ Filmmakers from all over the world came together to tell the story of Street Roots, a Portland-based nonprofit that creates a newspaper to effect social change. In addition, the newspaper creates an income opportunity for those who sell it, empowering them with a hand up, not a hand out. Director - Kaleb Kohart Director of Photography - Hubert Kang Camera, Audio, and Light team - Ralph Tecotzky, Brian Artka, Aurelien Tanguep Producer - Jonathan Gray Street Roots Vendor - Marlon Crump Portland Oregon USA, November 2015.

Eric Resch, owner and founder of Stone Creek Coffee, talks about what the company is founded upon and why they do what they do. https://www.stonecreekcoffee.com/

Baristas from Stone Creek Coffee and why they love what they do and... well... coffee.

Rose is a chef and teacher at Moraine Valley Community College. She works within her passion everyday and wants to share that with her students whenever possible.

Anthony and his friends spent a crisp November morning enjoying free unlimited games at Dave & Buster's in Wauwatosa. For the 10-year-old from Hartland, video games have always been a welcome escape from the realities of living with cystic fibrosis. Both Anthony and his younger brother William suffer from the life-threatening medical condition, which affects the body's production of mucous.