Creating Short Films On Social Issues
Young people have the power to take control of their own lives and change the world. You can fashion your own solutions and you have ideas about how your life can get better. Our vision is to empower you to become creators of stories and messages that resonate on video and social media, so that you can become agents of change in your local community.
This storytelling course will provide you with tangible skills, tools, and resources that you can use to communicate issues that can help create social change in your community.
By the end of this project, you will be able to:
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Exploring Culture via Geolocation
The course features content from a partnership between the teams from the website The Music Origins Project and the film on the history of Detroit Techno God Said Give Em Drum Machines. Students will explore how the team from the film uses various digital storytelling techniques to tell stories about dance music culture in Detroit. The program challenges students to explore the landmarks and institutions from Radio Stations and Labels to Record Stores, that created Detroit Techno using VR/360-degree technology. We will also be providing students with an understanding of digital storytelling across mediums used in the film God Said Give Em Drum Machines. Learn more about the project on the page Detroit Techno 101.
This location-based storytelling course will provide you with tangible skills, tools, and resources that you can use to tell location-based stories across the mediums of film, maps, and social media.
By the end of this project, you will be able to:
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LOCATION-BASED STORYTELLING IS COMING SOON!!!
