Online Learning Community: filming making and photo sharing
Hi everyone!
In this blog, I am going to introduce an online community that supports storytelling in images or videos. As more people advance in online communities, they will see that a sense of connection and experience a durable network of online learning communities. Camera is a powerful way of telling stories. The reasons why we so attracted to film are nothing more than a good story with appealing scenes. So in the community, everyone can share their work and find the like-minded.
Why create Video Making and Photography Sharing Community
First, there is demand from users and learners. Learning and education contone drives over a billion views a day on YouTube. During the COVID-19, students are using educational videos as a tool for learning everything from fixing appliances to the latest dance. Remarkably, millennials make up 92% of the digital video viewing audience. With so many videos embedded into our lives, video shooting and editing become essential skills for the younger generation who wish to communicate their thoughts to more people.
Storytelling ability is required in today's world. It uses images or videos to transport the listener from one place or time to another place to time. It is the ability to create a sequence of events to convey some meaning. It can be used to persuade your audiences, to support your ideas, and to motivate the team that is facing challenges. Whether in the job market or daily life, telling a good story is an essential skill. In this online community, we can help users to tell stories and convey meaning through the camera. It is a community of interest-based as well as for user-oriented.
Here are some works that help visualize my idea:
Live video streaming app
Software
You might want to have a camera, but for starters, using your phone to record videos or take pictures also works. Don't worry too much about the equipment, if your aesthetics for images and videos improve then you can consider more professional equipment.
- For recording: phone、 camera : canon / sony / leica series
- For video editing: Adobe Premiere/ Final Cut Pro / AE / Or any phone apps for editing
- For images: photoshop / lightroom
- Cloud storage: google drive
Motivation
During the filmmaking and photography process, users can experience the fun of making their own videos or images. Apparently, this community is going to provide a lot of tutorials for how to use cameras to composite user's own story, which accentuates a relationship in acquaintance and recognition. Users can share what they captured in their everyday like and even making small videos to record their life. Everyone can share what they think meaningful things in life to others, the little joy or the magnificent things in their lives, and then capture them in technological means. Moreover, this community provides opportunities to learn from each other. Professionals can share their insights into aesthetics, color, and compositions of scenes.
Interaction
Through engaging this community, users will have a sense of digital literacy, media literacy, and more importantly, critical literacy. Through other's work, users gain more sense of techniques, aesthetics, and critical opinion towards online videos.
Like many social network sites, users have their own homepage with social functions as follows:
- Link 🔗
- Like 👍
- Comment 📝
- Share 👫
- Follow 💕
User Posts Example:
Ways to learn and share knowledge
- Video Tutorials: Photography and Editing Software:
- Storyboard for Storytelling:
Users Profile
- Beginner: students who may be interested in learning camera
- Professional: experts who may have many years of working experience
- Hobbyist: anyone who is interested in
Social network functions: Linking to other social media that help grow our community
- Vimeo
In the end, I would like to share an inspirational Steven Spielberg quote:
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Hi Yue,
ReplyDeleteI am a photographer myself and have always searched for a support system/ community. It is partly due to the lonely nature of the process - as I mainly shoot with film cameras, I spend long hours in the dark room processing and making images. After I step out of the dark room, I'd then try to make some meaning out of strips of films myself. It would've been a lot fun and instructive had I just had some people around to give feedback and bounce ideas off of. It was easier during my undergraduate years, as the program was a cohort of like-minded. Now that I've graduated for a while, I have found it extremely hard to find a support system that suits my interest. Would definitely love to join a community!
Which brings me to my next question, how is the "community" aspect of the platform going to take place? I looked through the Behance examples listed. While I agree that an app can be an amazing platform, I struggle to see the community aspect of it - at the end of the day, it is one content creator producing for followers. Would the community aspect be leaving comments below and chatting with peers? Or do you only become a part of a community after you upload your own content?
Your example of learning about video-making through watching videos is also fun to wrap my head around- I am thinking about the strategies of reciprocal teaching, you learn the subject better by teaching it.
Great post!