This taster course gives you an introduction to what it means to use video for storytelling through a range of practical and creative activities. Through an interactive small group or pair process, you will develop a short video profile story. You will learn the basic elements of how to produce your story digitally, combining visuals and a script into a short film. This course is designed for researchers, M&E practitioners, communication experts and consultants who have an interest in using storytelling in their work. No prior experience with storytelling is required.

This course will cover:

● The meanings of story and storytelling

● Creative ways to identify and develop a story

● Basic elements of good stories

● How to create a storyboard

● How to best frame your story

● How to use camera and audio most efficiently to tell your story

● How to use video affordably!

● How to use simple digital techniques to produce a story

Cost: £75

**Up to five discounted places available on each course for people based in the Global South, those working with small organisations, and for students**

Maximum participants: 15

Time: 12:00-15:30 London time

Facilitation: This course will be co-facilitated by Joanna Wheeler (storytelling process) and Ambika Samarthya-Howard (visualisation and video production). Ambika is a professional film-maker. Check out Ambika’s work here.

What is included: course materials, access to a secure platform for participating/sharing and connecting with others, one round of feedback on your story from facilitators with additional feedback from the participants, on-going membership in a network of others working with storytelling.

What you need: a working internet connection, a phone/tablet/computer capable of connecting to the internet, a private space from which to join the sessions, interest and willingness in exploring your own experiences and learning through a collective process. Prior experience with storytelling and or digital story production is not required.

This taster course gives you an introduction to what it means to use video for storytelling through a range of practical and creative activities. Through an interactive small group or pair process, you will develop a short video profile story. You will learn the basic elements of how to produce your story digitally, combining visuals and a script into a short film. This course is designed for researchers, M&E practitioners, communication experts and consultants who have an interest in using storytelling in their work. No prior experience with storytelling is required.

This course will cover:

● The meanings of story and storytelling

● Creative ways to identify and develop a story

● Basic elements of good stories

● How to create a storyboard

● How to best frame your story

● How to use camera and audio most efficiently to tell your story

● How to use video affordably!

● How to use simple digital techniques to produce a story

Cost: £75

**Up to five discounted places available on each course for people based in the Global South, those working with small organisations, and for students**

Maximum participants: 15

Time: 12:00-15:30 London time

Facilitation: This course will be co-facilitated by Joanna Wheeler (storytelling process) and Ambika Samarthya-Howard (visualisation and video production). Ambika is a professional film-maker. Check out Ambika’s work here.

What is included: course materials, access to a secure platform for participating/sharing and connecting with others, one round of feedback on your story from facilitators with additional feedback from the participants, on-going membership in a network of others working with storytelling.

What you need: a working internet connection, a phone/tablet/computer capable of connecting to the internet, a private space from which to join the sessions, interest and willingness in exploring your own experiences and learning through a collective process. Prior experience with storytelling and or digital story production is not required.

Are you writing a bid for research funding and want to include storytelling? Based on my years of successful (and unsuccessful) research bids, and my experience with how to present a storytelling methodology in a compelling and rigorous way for research, this webinar will cover:

• what you need to consider to make a convincing case for using storytelling as a methodology in a bid;

• how much time and resources you should set aside;

• what kind of ethical considerations you need to address in the bid.

Do you want to use storytelling to show impact from your programming or to track how outcomes happen? Based on my experience of using storytelling approaches across programme, sectoral and project evaluations, this webinar will cover:

• the different purposes for storytelling methodologies in monitoring and evaluation;

• how to choose an appropriate storytelling methodology;

• what costs and resources need to be allocated, and;

• some examples of how storytelling has been used for monitoring and evaluation in a range of programmes and settings.