Creating Video Communications: Bitesized On-demand Course
Video Communication can be hugely effective for internal communicators, but there is a skill and application of technique required to hook your audience so they engage with your story and message.
Designed exclusively for internal communicators, this self-directed online learning course will introduce you to key concepts and techniques for creating great video communications and engaging your stakeholders.
Through a series of bitesized training videos we aim to demystify for the beginner how to create engaging video content.
The course will explore how to create a series of shots in a sustainable style that sells your brand, effectively engages your audience and achieves your communication objectives.
Through this course you will discover not just a new skill, but a process that stimulates teamwork and creates self-motivation with which to unleash your own visual creativity.
The course covers the following key topics:
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Setting up and holding your smartphone
- Using video to sell your brand and communications
- How to film an interview
- Working with shy or challenging colleagues
- Things not to do
- Shots sequences and storyboards.
How does the course work?
The course is fully online and designed for self-directed learning. There are 6 training videos, each around 10 minutes long, accompanied by an introduction and a transcript. At the end of the course there will be a short multiple choice quiz to complete to test your knowledge and learning.
Access to the platform
The course is delivered via Canvas, our dedicated online learning platform. The platform is highly user friendly and easy to navigate.
Learners can access the course 24/7 meaning it can fit around busy schedules and be completed at times which suit individual needs, and with 6 months' access to the course they can return to refresh their learning even after completion.
CPD
The course provides 4 CPD points for IoIC Members.
Your trainer
Jeremy Humphries
Jeremy Humphries is an acclaimed director of photography, with many documentary series for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, National Geographic and The Discovery Channel to his name. Many of Jeremy’s projects have been BAFTA nominated, and he is a winner of the award for Best International Cinematography.
In a 30-year career that spans the globe, Jeremy’s appetite for human stories is evident in a hugely diverse body of work that, to date, has covered politics, war, history, science, culture, music, social issues and even Gordon Ramsay’s cutthroat kitchen oratory. Wherever Jeremy’s work has taken him, his fascination with people, perspectives and their stories always shines through.
Trained in cinematography at the BBC, Jeremy’s later career as a trainer took off as production companies began to send self-shooters on location in place of traditional camera crews. But as Jeremy points out, despite the many gains the self-shooter brings to modern production, much now rests on their shoulders:
“For all the agility and immediacy that working solo allows, self-shooters today don’t have a team to turn to and learn from. And as a career advances and technology evolves, knowledge gaps emerge that can be hard to fill all by yourself.”
That’s why Jeremy founded Skills2Film; to give self-shooters a place to close skills gaps and develop their visual storytelling, whatever their experience.
**Please note: users will be added to the course platform after booking within 2 working days of booking**