Community Media Center

Helping to amplify the voices of Maine people and communities.

NEW COURSE

“Promotional Video for Nonprofits”
United Technologies Center
200 Hogan Rd., Bangor, Maine
Sept. 25-Dec. 4, 2007, 6-8 p.m.
Registration and information: 866-2992
peterrottmann at hotmail dot com

This is to be a seminar/workshop in which the participants, aided by the facilitators - Dave Berry, Bill Phillips, and Peter Rottman - are to plan, develop, critically evaluate and revise short videos intended to promote the organizational objectives of the nonprofits represented. As such, it will require consistent exchanges among the participants relative to their work in progress, as well as consistent "hands-on" experience with the basics of video production.

Each participant is expected to produce one short video to promote the mission of the organization the participant represents. This video is not to exceed 10 minutes in length--the kind of video especially useful for consciousness-raising, fund-raising and recruitment purposes.

To foster a developmental progression for the group as a whole, moving from the conception to the execution of the videos to be produced, the facilitators will guide the participants through the following sequence of stages and topics, revisiting them as necessary for clarification and reinforcement.

1. Identifying/Articulating Subjects, Themes, Messages and Purposes
2. Mastering the Mechanics of a Camcorder
3. Tips on Taping
4. Accessing Apple's iMovie Software
5. Importing Footage to iMovie
6. Basic Editing Techniques with iMovie
7. Composing Telling Titles for iMovie
8. Composing Effective Voiceovers for iMovie
9. Selecting/Applying Background Music with iMovie
10. Polishing and Packaging the Final Product

At each scheduled session the facilitators will address one or more of the developmental stages/topics listed above, engaging all of the participants in the related practices and an exchange of views and concerns; the facilitators will clearly describe the work the participants are to do between sessions (e.g., writing, taping, revising, etc.); and, together, the facilitators and the participants will critically examine and evaluate the participantsâ work in progress.

This is a strictly voluntary commitment on the part of the facilitators involved, and there are no fees charged to the participants. So there is a risk that the the effort will be undervalued. Consequently, each participant is expected to make a good-faith commitment to fostering mutual respect and goodwill among the group as a whole by conscientiously attending all scheduled sessions and conscientiously engaging in all planned activity.

For more information or to register, contact Peter Rottmann: peterrottmann at hotmail dotcom, or 866-2292.

This course offereing is part of the Community Media Center's aspiration to help engender more diversity in what we see and hear in our media.

The Center intends to bring more voices into the civic dialog in Maine by assisting individuals and public benefit groups with the production, dissemination, and promotion of video, audio, electronic, and other digital materials. Our goal is to help build more robust communities whose members have access to many perspectives on issues their communities face.

The Center has few tangible physical resources itself. Rather, the Center draws on the resources of organizations already at work in the community and enables them to cooperate and serve community members in new ways. [More]