The Engaged Researcher Online Training: Your Research Video online

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Why is YouTube popular? Because people love watching videos. A research video can be a great way to get your message across to your collaborators, your friends, and the wider world as well as being a condition of some funding bodies. But it isn't easy to do well - and this is where this course will make a difference. Come along and learn the skills needed to plan, shoot & edit high quality footage for research videos so that your video can stand out from the crowd. You just need yourself, a camera phone and your enthusiasm!

PGR students and academic and professional staff

Wear headphones or earphones at all times during VC sessions. Mute your Mic when you’re not speaking. • A fully charged smartphone with a camera and/or a digital camera capable of shooting video • Laptop (plugged in or charged) or Desktop computer • Phone’s &/or Camera’s USB cable to transfer footage • Write down the most common question you get about your research. Or a question you’d like to answer & explain using video. • Strong internet connection • Da Vinci Resolve editing software. Follow this link, scroll to the very bottom to see a link to download the free version on the left: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/ davinciresolve/ Please check it runs OK. If it does not, try https://fxhome.com/hitfilm-express • If you have Adobe Premiere Pro, use this. • Optional but very useful: Tripod that works with smartphone, tripod for your digital camera.

Number of sessions: 4

Participants of this course will learn to • use a phone camera to record video • Shoot more professional video clips & photos • film themselves and present • Plan a video/film • Do more advanced video editing • upload a video online

Online

Mon 10am-11am VC Intro, Brief & Examples yes

 1am-11.45pm	VC Planning tips	
1pm-2pm	OT Small tasks: decide	
		platform. Watch linked video	
		clips.	
		(Ryd not available)	
2pm-4pm	OT Small task: make plans	for film	
		(Ryd not available)	

Tues	10am-11am	VC Shooting tips	
	11am break		
	11.15am-11.45	VC Shooting tips 2			
	1am-4pm	OT Shooting time. Transfer	
		        footage onto your computer	
		         (Ryd not available)	
Wed	all day	OT Shooting time. Transfer	
		footage onto your computer.	
		(Ryd not available)	
Thur	10am-11am	VC Video Editing	
	11am break		
	11.15am-11.45	VC How to export &	
		upload	
	1pm-3pm	OT Editing (Ryd available)	
	3pm-4pm	OT Editing (Ryd not available)	
Fri	10am-12pm	OT Editing/Exporting/
		Uploading (Ryd not available)			
                2.30pm-3.30pm	OT Editing/Exporting/	
		Uploading (Ryd available)	
	3.30pm-4pm	VC Showcase and q&a