Training sessions/Proposals/How to make a short documentary with a smartphone

Title: How to make a short documentary with a smartphone

Author: Matthias Süßen, Daniel Schwen (assistant)

Description: Documentaries are still underrepresented at Wikimedia Commons. Nevertheless, it is quite easy to make a short documentary with a smartphone and some apps. The process is so simple that anyone can make them very easily.

Purpose: In this workshop I will demonstrate how to create video content for the illustration of Wikipedia articles with free apps and how to upload the material on Commons. I will present some of the best free video editing applications for Android and iOS devices and the required equipment. Finally, I will give an overview of the basic shooting rules to create raw material that is easy to edit into meaningful sequences.

Targeted participants: This basic course provides an introduction into video editing on a smartphone. It is aimed at the interested layman and beginners who never edited a video before.

Preparatory readings or materials: None required.

Video: cut version livestream

Resource: Workshop material

Interested attendees:

This will tie in very nicely with my program on Wikimedia breaking into audiovisual content. BD2412 (talk) 03:41, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nice topic and great speaker :) Poco a poco (talk) 18:49, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Bodhisattwa (talk) 04:23, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Might be interesting.--Juandev (talk) 09:41, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Satdeep Gill (talk) 14:46, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Flixtey (talk) 13:49, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sara Mörtsell (WMSE) (talk) 07:04, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Peaceray (talk) 20:20, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 06:55, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ainali (talk) 12:35, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]