 Yesterday, when I was in Dordrecht, I was approached by a charming vlogger from Uganda. Oh, you? I'm fine, thank you. And she told me that she's taking the summer course on visual methods for water communication at IHEDEV. But why water people are busy with doing video? So that's what I'm gonna ask. So let's go inside and discover what they're doing. Well, in fact, my name is Emanuele Fantini and I coordinate this summer course on visual methods, but let's pretend we don't know. Well, let's see what the students have learned. What's your name? My name is Collins. And you're from? From Kenya. And what did you learn so far? Right now I can read videos, I just learned that in one week. It's just a very huge accomplishment for me. What's your name? My name is Sida. And where are you from? I'm from China. So what did you learn in this course? Well, at least I know how to edit the video and how to tell a story in a roundabout way. And I like it. Yeah, I learned a lot. Thank you. And here's our director. So which is a tip that you give to someone who has to direct the video? First things first, they need to know their story. Secondly, they need to know the place so well. You just have to know what to do, work with it. And here there's their training, Roland Posma. Roland. Oh, already? Roland, I'm checking and I'm not looking there, I'm looking at the screen. So first rule when you vlog, look at the camera, not at the screen. You always tell the students that making a video is like cooking. Why? Because it is really like cooking. First, you need a good menu. And in fact, a good menu for a video is a good story for a video. A good story with a beginning, with a middle and a good end. So it has three parts, just like a good meal. You have a starter, you have the main dish, and you have the dessert. And then if you have a story, you have to make a shopping list. Yes. And you go out shopping. And shopping is like shooting your video. I always forget something when I go shopping. Yeah, then you come back home and you start cooking. Okay. And if you start cooking, you have the ingredients you found at the market, you shopped for it, but you also have pepper, you have salt, and you have your own knowledge. Today you have also internet, you can find extra movies on the internet, you can find images on the internet, you can make animations. So during the cooking you can add quite a lot. You can shop online. Yeah, you can shop online. That's the reason why I compare it to making, to cooking. Johan Craven is our lecturer on data visualization. This was the ingredient we add this year. So Johan, how do you make data tell stories? I think first you've got to work out what kind of stories it's telling. So you take it and you look at it in lots of different ways. You make maps out of it, you make charts out of it until you find something really interesting, which might not even be what you're expecting to find in it. And then once you've found that, you strip bits out of it and combine it with other data so it really tells its story. And you fix the colors and shapes and everything so that people will look at it and the story will just jump out of it. Yes, he's in his office. Here we are with Paolo Pagon. He flew away because it's our trainer on aerial images with drones. Well, why do I use images from a barber? Because they are beautiful. And then because they give you a different perspective and you are able to see things in their context. Like this. And here we are with Wim Glass, the master of the video conference room. This year we've been using Camtasia. You bought a lot of license for all our colleagues at IG. Why? Well, because Camtasia is really a nice and easy program to do video editing. And it has all the functionality that Adobe Premiere has also but it brings it in a very easy and convenient way. The summer course was the final test for whether it was really going to prove what it was worth. And I think we can say that it has been working very well. Okay, so IHE colleagues, get ready to use Camtasia and next summer join the course of visual methods for water communication.