Watch along as Laura explains how to start using the images in your film to add deeper meaning to your words. https://videopress.com/v/FMRd9CNB?preloadContent=metadata Letter to a Minnesota Jail by Anathema Jane McKenna ‘In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the...Constitution and the Declaration of … Continue reading Visual metaphors in film-poems and digital stories #1
Author: Kirsten Luckins
Poet, performer, creative producer, creative practitioner. Artistic director Tees Women Poets. Writer-in-residence - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2019-20)
Facilitator - Celebrating Change community digital storytelling project (2018-2020)
Publications - The Trouble With Compassion (Burning Eye Books, 2016); Utterly Otterly (Bx3, 2018)
Theatre shows - The Moon Cannot Be Stolen (2014), The Trouble With Compassion (2016)
Life lessons shared through poetry
In our March writing session, Kirsten Luckins took us through an intensive idea-generation brainstorm and then couple of great poetic structures that together will allow you to articulate what YOU have learned in life. https://videopress.com/v/aHMI6t5R?preloadContent=metadata
Take a better, more meaningful photo
In this month's digital workshop, film-maker and storyteller Laura Degnan takes us through some essential photographic techniques that will help you add layers of meaning to your images, which will ensure maximum impact when you combine them with your written or spoken words. Follow along with these exercises as we look at the impact of … Continue reading Take a better, more meaningful photo
2021 writing creative memoir #1 – your wibbly, wobbly life path
In this session, Kirsten guides you to think about the shape of your life path, and gives you three ways of writing that might help you create an overview. Using 'anaphora' poems by Sara Dennis and Amir Darwish, and an extract from Michelle Obama, you should end up with a summary or prologue piece that … Continue reading 2021 writing creative memoir #1 – your wibbly, wobbly life path
Making that Christmas film, and linking Dropbox to iMovie
In this video, Laura revises some of our key editing tools, and then teaches our core participants how to access the Celebrating Change Dropbox app in order to Export a soundtrack into their digital stories. Although some of you watching won't have access to our particular Dropbox, this should still give you an idea of … Continue reading Making that Christmas film, and linking Dropbox to iMovie
Building your writing muscles – Christmas Special
So here it is, our last session of 2020, in which we take a whistle-stop tour of techniques and prompts used over the last 6 weeks and apply them to the creation of a Christmas/seasonal message! Combine the piece you produce from this tutorial with Laura's challenge to take footage of your Christmas, and you … Continue reading Building your writing muscles – Christmas Special
Digital basics #6 – adding a soundtrack
In our final intro session of 2020, our films are nearly finished. All that's needed is a soundtrack! Laura shows you how to add music from the iMovies audio library, and how to fade it in and out. If you've been following along with these tutorials, we'd love to see your work on our Facebook … Continue reading Digital basics #6 – adding a soundtrack
Building your writing muscles #6 – the power of lists
Take a look at our penultimate writing session of 2020 as we use lists to order our thoughts about different aspects of our life - the beginning of editing! https://videopress.com/v/HODi3ojR?preloadContent=metadata
Digital basics #5 – adding voiceovers
In this session, Laura will lead us through recording a voiceover directly onto your iPad, and then how to trim and re-position it in order to get the words aligning with your chosen images. https://videopress.com/v/gnIUSXzG?preloadContent=metadata
Building your writing muscles #5 – in which we reply to Mary Oliver
Use this tutorial video to inspire a series of short free-writes inspired by lines from the famous poem Wild Geese, which contains within it ideas of goodness, guilt, repentance, the physical body, and our relationship with nature. https://videopress.com/v/OkU2VCkI?preloadContent=metadata
Digital basics #4 – trimming clips and adding Titles
Moving forward with our iMovie using three video clips, we now add a line of text for each clip. We're using lines on the past, present and future, which we generated in the very first writing session. https://videopress.com/v/P2fdaII5?preloadContent=metadata
Building your writing muscles #4 -life story of an object
For this week's writing session, please grab an object that you can write about - heirloom, keepsake, gift - and follow along with our free-writing instructions! https://videopress.com/v/I1KzQk0t?preloadContent=metadata
