 Felly, fel amlwg â eu bod yn ni wedi yw'r oeddeu'r syniad hon yn y rhan o'r cybeithio. Felly yn hyn yn fwy o hynny. Felly mae'n gwneud datblygu am y swydd, mae'n fwy o fwy o hynny yn ei wneud, mae rwy'n meddwl feddwl. Mae'n hyn i'n fwy o'r fath o. Roel-on, rydw i'r gydig o'r swydd yna, ydw? Rydyn nhw. Felly, mae'n rhai o'r swydd sy'n her oedd yn ferfodio i'r seisiwn am eu hwn. I'm Catherine Anderson just over on the right-hand side of the screen there, physical drogopher but interested very much in science communication and I work a lot with creating material for school children and education. But we also have, I might as well go right to left on the screen, we also have Juliet who will be speaking a little bit later on. She works a lot with creating story maps for professionals and volunteers using narratives, story lines and things like that. We have Emanuele, he has podcasts, blogging sites, especially linked to things like water security. And finally we have Roland who is our video making aficionado absolute master in video making storytelling for science communication. So there'll be four of us running the session today but it's very much an interactive webinar so we encourage posting ideas, thoughts especially in the WhatsApp group as well. It's very much a hands-on session so you'll be getting to grips with not only the theory but also the hands-on part of video making. Next slide please, Roland. Great, so there'll be kind of five blocks to the webinar today. The first one we'll just set the scene, we'll give you some elements of what makes a blog, what is a vlog in itself. Then we'll look at the key elements to a successful vlog and then we'll get right down into how we go about making plot lines, tips for videoing things and then it will be very much over to you and your turn to start producing a very own vlog. We'll watch it back, we'll get some ideas, get some discussion going. Next slide please. Okay brilliant so I'll just spend a moment or two thinking about the purpose of vlogs, why we would want to create a vlog in the first place and what they actually are. So the challenge through today's session is really to get to grips with vlogging. I was a complete new person to this a couple of weeks ago, quite daunting to start off with but once I got into it through the helpful advice of Roland it was really actually quite a fun process so we're going to transfer that to you guys today. So things we want to think about are how you could record a video using your phone, we don't need any fancy equipment necessarily. We can focus in on individual objects that just sat around on your desk. We then also want to think about how this might be structured in terms of a beginning, a middle and an end to make a coherent engaging package of a vlog. Next please Roland. Before I do next Catherine because this is a vlogging session and also about cameras. When I look at you I only see you from your eyes and you're a little bit, your camera is a little bit. Is that better? You can see my full face now. Try to do this on the right way. I like it, I like it. Thanks. Okay so first we want to think about what is a vlog and what does that word actually mean. So according to a dictionary definition of that it's a record of thoughts, opinions, experiences that you would then film and then upload onto the internet. So there's been a real rise in this worldwide I think covering a whole host of topics and it's certainly something that younger generations are really getting into as well. It's a very quick way of communicating with different audiences and engaging them in a way that maybe meets them on various different levels so that we can really get that rapport going with them. Next slide please Roland. So in contrary to things like written communication for example or much larger documentary style videos, blogs are quite a unique way of engaging with your audience. They're often quite quick to produce. The message is often quite condensed so in terms of providing a platform through which to communicate with other audiences it's quite impressive. A couple of things that we would then need to think about as we are producing our vlogs is what do we want to get out of that and so here's just a word cloud over on the right hand side and through the course of the session today we'll deal with a lot of these ideas so I won't run through them all just now but we want to think about what do we actually want to get out of this. Next slide please Roland. So we're going to just start off and have a quick look at this particular video and what we do is we want to think about a few questions so who is the vlogger here? Who is the person doing the vlogging? What's the takeaway message from this video? How did you feel when you watched it? So I watched this a little bit earlier on and there was one little part of this that really stuck out to me. I don't know why it just really hit me the most out of the whole video so have a think about what do you remember the most. Feel free to type this into the WhatsApp, the chat, drop this down and it's all things that we can we can get these ideas going and start to pull this apart a little bit later on when you're ready Roland. Peace, thanks. I'm the earth. I have thousands of faces and colours. I am black, yellow, white, red, gold. When I get angry, I am the colour of the fire. Sometimes I am hard, sometimes I am fragile. In the desert, I become infinite. I kiss the sky when I become a mountain. I am a nomad, an explorer, a traveler. Sometimes I want to escape, so I become dust to dance with the winds. With human beings, I have a special relationship. Your children come to meet me for their first steps. Your elder people come to me for a long and peaceful sleep. I offer you flowers, plants, and trees with delicious fruits. I wish we could have that beautiful relationship again. Thanks Roland. Next slide please. Perfect, so hopefully that kind of started to get you thinking a little bit more about vlogging the content of the video, the messages that come across and how that's actually portrayed to you. Other things that we'll start to deal with over the course of today and I'll soon hand over to Juliet who'll go into this in a little bit more detail, but we're aware that creating videos can be quite daunting to a lot of people, me included until a couple of weeks ago when we got into this in a bit more detail. Questions like, and I'm sure we often all think of this when we embark on these kind of science communication endeavours, things like what do we include? What kind of language should I be using to communicate with the audience? What software will I use to edit this down? What's the story? Will people understand it? Will they find it a little bit too boring or maybe too technical? All these things that are kind of in our brains when we start on any kind of science interface, especially as academics it's often a bit of an unusual thing to be doing. Next slide please Roland. We also want to think about who are we actually aiming these vlogs for? Are they policy makers? Are they professionals? Are they the wider public? Are they children? What kind of background do they have? What kind of age group might they be? And again things that we will deal with through the course of today. Next slide please Roland. So we've talked about what this might entail. Who are we actually going to try and target with our vlog? But also what do we want to get out of that? So are we hoping that people will become more interested in our topic? Do we want to open up a dialogue, a conversation with a new audience or an existing audience but perhaps in a different way? Do we want to connect with large communities? Do we want to promote some kind of behavioural change with the audience as well? I'm really starting to drill down what specifically are we aiming for here? And again all these questions will bear in mind as you start to create your own vlogs later. Next please Roland. Okay so I'll hand over to Juliet here. We'll do a series of interactive questions through the course of the session. So over to you Juliet. Hello everyone. So we just have a few questions so that you can connect in Mentimeter with your phone. So just go to this mentimenti.com and type the code that is there. So I hope that you all have done it. I'm also doing it myself. Then I will just move to the next slide and then there are a few questions about your experience. So we have three people now having experience with the video phone and also with telling stories. Most of you have experience with sharing in social media so that's really good. I think that we had around 10 participants if I'm not mistaken. So please keep the Mentimeter code there. So here what it is good is that it seems that many of us have experience with video making and sharing. So your tips are also welcome to to be part of this session because certainly you are representatives of the audience as well. So regarding the key story elements. So we have basically a problem of dilemma. It is the first of them. We also have the solution or takeaway message. We have certainly a setting and the characters of the plot or sequence of events. So regarding the setting I will ask you Roland to play this video so that we can ask participants to think first what is the setting that is here if it can be also related with the study of our research or the place where we carried out our research. So please Roland play the video. Guadalajara Mexico 1953. During a break from his expedition collecting insects Field Museum Research Associate Dr Charles H. Severs was perusing an antique store when he came across the most unusual specimen. It was this alien looking creature with sunken eyes and protruding mouth and horns and a long barbed tail. Is it a demon baby a fallen angel or the spawn of Satan. Nope it's just a fish. Since the 16th century sailors and seaside dwellers have been selling the manipulated figures of certain cartilaginous fishes like skates and rays to tourists. They were marketed to oddity collectors as devil fish or dragons and became known as Jenny Hanover's thought to be a misinterpretation of the French phrase jundianvers or young person of antwerp. Many of these devil babies are made from guitar fish a kind of ray in the family rhino badity which today live along beaches and coastlines and anestuaries. The practice of selling their disfigured bodies to tourists has declined in recent years due to conservation protections around these remarkable fish but thankfully due to museums you could say this legacy still has legs. So here it is was just a video to show you how first an object may change over the course of the story and how we can have different settings including the imaging one that the the vlogger imagines. Next Roland please. Guadalajara, Mexico 1953 So regarding the the problem of dilemma so many of us are in a problem address a problem of dilemma with the research so for example in the first video the problem was certainly related to the earth in the second one it was certainly related about about water conservation sorry about species and endangered conservation. Then I would like to start making you ask you to think about the the problem of ground research because it's actually the research that we are going to communicate and then I will ask you next the next slide Roland to think what is the problem of dilemma on on this block that we have here Roland please go ahead. Scientists often think that facts are the most important thing when they tell about their work but most people including scientists don't get fascinated until you tell stories about real people. About the effort they have to make to get a glass of water. My name is Roland Postman I've been making video stories about science for a long time of kids and for adults. I want to show you that with a little creativity telling a video story with your mobile about your own research is almost as simple as drinking a glass of water. Thank you very much Roland for the video so I will take over the screen and then that you can you can answer the next maintainer question that it is actually about your research. So in three keywords please share with us what is the problem of dilemma that you'd like to share in your blog. So in the examples that we just saw there was one about earth degradation one about water scarcity and one about endangered species so which one is yours. So we have here blogging system change climate in general and water in general. So we have six responses then glaciers let me see if there is a sea level rise. Any last one before passing to the next slide. Okay so collaboration. Let me see what happened. Okay next slide. So if your audience would only have 10 seconds to look at your blog right in max 20 words why they should care about this problem and then I give you the example so Roland mentions that the scientists think that facts are the most important aspect to tell about our research and the earth who was the vlogger told us the they provide us with many benefits from we are born until we die and the famous vlogger that we shared in the in the vlog about endangered species she told us that they are so usually sold to tourists so what would you like to take to your audience in 10 seconds and 20 words maybe would you like to share it with us. It's important to realize this video we are going to ask you to make in 10 minutes. So anything you write is good to start because it's actually starting thinking about your own blog and nothing is wrong or so start with a visual hook supported by the text that's what they'd like to take the the the audience what is fundamental to life on earth but too much to little concos problems supporting solving grad challenges help scientists to the scientists it affects all of us okay so let's go to the solution or takeaway message so basically when we talk about this problem we also have a takeaway message for our audience and this is what we would like them expect what we will expect them to do with our research findings or with our work so the question it is if you certainly have the game 20 words and 10 seconds with your audience what type of solutions you propose with your research and what can your audience do with it and then of course we have Roland who told us that the telling stories about real people and their relationship with the problem can be like drinking a glass of water it was the earth who told us that it is time to reconsider our relationship with the earth and the way that we take care of it and it was the famous blogger who told us that when finding a dangerous species on a beach a coastline we can choose to preserve it what about you but I can I think Juliet we can give them a few minutes to think about it just because this is this is where the workshop is starting think about what you really want to tell in the next half hour anyone who wants to just give a give a long shot and I gave everybody the opportunity to talk to us so if you want to share your thoughts with us on audio you can do that so just unmute yourself and ask questions give comments because we tried to make it a little bit more interactive well certainly this is one of the most difficult questions to answer by ourselves and I don't expect you to answer within five seconds but as Roland says I really expect you to think about this answer when planning and recording about your blog going back to the presentation Roland if you will please share the screen but you are sharing what I think it's good to see a little bit what people are going to answer in the okay yeah they are of course they're going to respond they have some time to do that okay okay so let me see it's not about your solution boring but about your adventure to find it through yeah that's that's a very good one it is time to reconsider about that we check it national nordic and international knowledge exchange related to eples there is a necessity to start to think about the actual role of a public water utility to address the water access to the vulnerable okay but I would like to comment to all these first suggestions now is if you really want to make a short vlog of one minute about this then some of the solutions are very very very very broad so if you want to make a short video of one minute and 15 seconds then I think you should try to think can we be a little bit more concrete or a little bit more to the point and a little bit more filmable let me see I'm just also trying to open here the comments environment environmental and behavioural chain communication strategies towards improving water usage okay we have eight responses well at you two time I will move back to the presentation and then introduce the next part that is the character or the agent agent so certainly it is not limited to the protagonist of the story and we can decide to tell about objects that transform throughout the story but we can also decide to tell about adventures or even problems that we have with our own research the important aspect of a vlog as its definition says that we try to share our experiences personal perspective those and opinions and relationships with that problem and that solution and I think that with this I would like to give the floor to Roland who is going to tell us about the plot and the tips for shooting the story so actually the plot is a sequence with ups and downs that reflect the order in which the characters events takes place so Roland floor is yours okay okay welcome everybody my name is Roland Bosma and I was introduced already I am making videos and for science programs for a long time and I also give a lot of training to people also to scientists about vlogging and making short stories and in fact it's very easy to vlog so we're going to do that in the next how much time do we still have in the next hour we're going to we're going to do that and we're going to help you with it with that so I hope you prepare to to do that and I will give you a few basic rules and a few basic and if you understand that I always say to people I can explain what you need to know in about 10 minutes I'm going to try to do that in 10 minutes and after if you really understand what I'm going to say the next 10 minutes and are able to to do it then you're a perfect vlogger so it's not it's for most people not so difficult care screen so the basic the basic rule is tell stories because people do that as long as there are human people that tell stories and why do they tell stories and why are stories so powerful well the most important thing is people remember stories way better than facts and figures attending a story will help people to remember it stories will also make a message more unique and stories will create a more is most of the time stories are much more emotional because most of the good stories are about people not about facts not about nature not about they are about people and also very important reason to tell stories are stories are shared and that's also really important in this time of making videos if your videos aren't shared you're nowhere so you have to make videos that are shared you're telling stories about your work about science is the basic thing you have to do of course it's not exclusive only for videos you can all you can also do that for presentations for writing things stories are shared and stories are remembered so then when we talk to scientists and especially if we talk to also to scientific researches etc they always think that facts and figures are very important and of course they are but first of all what's really important to remember that you're making your video not for yourself not for your colleagues but you're making videos for a more general audience and you think you will say no i will make videos for my colleague scientists but still your colleague scientists are also normal people and they like to hear stories and it's really important to realize that you as a narrator and as the maker of the video flow you're not the audience the audience is different than yourself so before making a video try to find out what you really what the audience really wants to know what they know about the subject you're telling about so all the time realize your words your concept your science is not the science is not the knowledge of the people you're making a video for that's rule number two basic number two third basic if your video doesn't achieve something in the audience if they don't feel something about your video it's a waste of time because most of of course there are facts that's so important that people will notice them but most of the time you have to you have to feel something when they watch your video they have to respond they have to feel happy or surprised or angry or whatever so always ask yourself when you're making a short video well how would the audience feel about this would they feel something about this basic number three so and i'm basic number four especially if you make very short vlogs like this for instance about your presentation you only think about having only one clear message what do you really want to tell not a very broad message but clear what do you want to achieve what do you want your audience to feel or to do or to learn and also in the today videos are short special one minute is best one minute 30 is a little bit uh is already a little bit long and that sounds very unpleasant but look at yourself you're also scrolling like that through the videos on link and then you say oh four minutes now i'm not going to watch that uh and only if you see one minute maybe you will give it a try so it's really important to keep your video short and tell a story back to the stream so what is a good story now what is a good story of course a good story has a begin and has a middle and has an end and that sounds very stupid but it's really important to realize that you begin somewhere there's a story and you end if you do it in a more graphical way you could it it can look a little bit like that today it's very important that in the first 10 seconds of your video people are hooked to it if they don't want to watch it they decide in the first five to 10 seconds if they're going to watch your video so don't start with logos don't start with titles don't start with all that kind of stuff just start with something that's that people really want to see and that will intrigue them to watch the video then you can build up a story and a story is something happening something developing people always say i need images to tell my story and i always say no you need something to happen to to make a story something is happening so a challenge a fight research research a question for scientists often starting with a good question and trying to find the answer of the question in the in the video is a good story is a very good storyline but there are many more storyline but the basic thing is something is happening you build up to a climax and by the end you give people time to digest it a little bit and i and sometimes by the end you can put a call to action in your case you're going to ask him to watch your presentation on the conference you could also say that with words and that's sometimes easier to remember when you're making your video first you have to get attention hey you there look and you tell a story it is like this this is the conclusion this is the solution this is what i want to tell you aha so give them some time to get get there aha so i want to share a few very simple uh now maybe i go back one second are there questions about it your your audio audio is all are people want to ask a question or comment on this because it's so silent uh i still hope there are people really there i don't know okay nobody okay i will share the screen of my phone with uh with you the first decision there is a question in the chat and the question is what is a good hook what is a good hook a good hook is something that will people you can make a visual hook so the the image you show is so exciting that people think okay how is going on but a hook is something that the word says it says it already a hook is something that will hook you to the story and will hook you to look at the rest of the the video so it can be uh anything it's it's difficult to say what is a good hook uh but a good hook is uh you recognize a good hook when you when you see when you see one because it's really important to you think about the video of the about the fish for me there was a good hook it was a bit dark there was a bit of mystery so you want to know where is this leading yeah i think that's if you elicit the the curiosity indeed you hook your fish and you drag it with you yeah if you think about them the the video of Roland he was showing us a a photo of water scarcity and a glass of water i was like what is this so for me it was like confused and kind of surprised and if you think about the earth it was like making me feel like who's talking what does he want to say where are these images going to so it's something that surprised you something that is mysterious something that has an adventure inside something that your audience would say what is going on yeah and we had we had the video about i am earth that's also an interesting way to start a video with beautiful images and so that's also a reason to watch at the video so there can be very much reasons to a shocking fact a shocking uh number a shocking can also be a good hook to start a video and you see what good hooks are because if you if you're on the website you get a lot of advertisements for a lot of videos and for a lot of information and they always try to get you into the video or into the information or into the website with a kind of stupid hook any other question is there more questions because i cannot see the chat at this moment okay okay so if you if you're going to start making a video and you will start with that in a few minutes then the first thing you have to answer for yourself and i will is do i'm going to film horizontal or do i going to for vertical do i'm going to film in landscape mode or do i going to film in portrait mode and why is that important because i think if you make a video more for websites and for youtube or whatever you should always film in landscape mode but if you make things for for instance for instagram or tiktok or whatever you can film turn your camera and do it in portrait mode so that's a really first important question you have to answer then the second tip a lot of people and we're doing that also if you're going to talk into the camera it's very important that you really look into the camera because now i'm not looking into the camera and i'm looking at the screen so if you're going to use your phone to film yourself find the camera on the phone oh it's there and if you really want to talk to the people talk into the camera and what a lot of people are doing they're always checking on the screen for now how do i look how do i look when i talk and i forget to look into the camera if you really want to talk to people look into the camera and talk to them because then you get contact instead of just checking out how your screen is so that's a very second important tip i want to give you there um i want to say a few things about give me one second because i have so many screens i'm sharing at this moment i lost a little bit track of it so i'm going to share the screen of my phone with you you see my phone now so and i also demonstrated that so we have you see my phone i can turn it now you see if i'm looking um if i'm checking on the on the screen how i do i look i'm not looking into camera so also here i have to find the right lens if i really want to talk to you i talk to you like this i'm talking to the lens to say hello so important talking to the lens then decide landscape or landscape so the other was of course and then i said uh if you're going to uh what we want you to do okay turn the camera hope can you hear me uh yeah yes we can yeah okay you can still hear me okay so what we want you to do is take an object somewhere around you on on your desk or in the room you're in and use that to tell a very short story about your research if you don't have an object um don't worry too much but still try to tell a short story about your research that will engage us but you can also use uh for instance a picture from uh your screen like this so now i bring you to bring you to Dhaka and you see i did it made a lot of impression on me because i made a few stories about Dhaka and about riksha writers so i can tell you a story about riksha writers using the riksha they gave me but if you use an object the camera goes off it's always a bit complicated like this you see i can do a little bit more interesting it's going to switch completely it does it automatically because i so so there are many ways to use your camera so you can also tell a story a little bit like this about your research and say oh i wasn't Dhaka and i want to tell you something like that so there are many ways to use the camera in a creative way in the next seconds to tell your story i can also tell you a story about London and driving in blackcaps extension but and of course if you don't have an object at hand well just go to uh go to your screen and uh i can take you to china i can take you to norway and i can take you up to india eras and i tell you a story about the eiffel tower so the exercise now do we have that on us do we have a slide with the exercise so okay so now so now it's your turn roland there's a question about the if you can provide some terminology for the different camera angles we're going technical oh yeah i think uh i don't think it's a very interesting question it is when you study film theory of course you can you can talk about uh close ups and wide shots and medium shots and extreme close ups etc but for now we want you to make a very short story one minute using an object around you to tell your story and share it with us on fimeo so we can go into all technical details about uh shorts and about but that's not the main thing i think the main thing is here for this for this workshop is try to get your story right and use an object and why do we want you to use an object because otherwise it's it's going to be very uh but it's going to be words and it's going to be text etc so use an object in your room and it's it's not really important uh because you can connect almost every object to your research or to your adventure to your story or whatever but take something or take a picture and make a story so and about all the different close ups and camera moves because you also have the camera movements like assume and tilt and etc but i don't think that's uh that's really important now i think what's really important that you start working on it and that you're going to make Roland how much time do we have for doing that let's see one second um so your turn so make a story um how long do we have uh i was talking so i didn't keep track of your time i manuella do you have much time do we have well it's quarter to one we still have 45 minutes right so we can take some 10 minutes to now i think long effect they have half an hour to do that uh and then but as soon as you start sharing a story so film something on your mobile don't hesitate to do it film yourself do something as soon as those stories come in we will you people will see them in the in the whatsapp room and do we share it on vimeo or in whatsapp because we have the link to whatsapp yeah we will see it first in whatsapp and by the end i will share all the videos on female okay and maybe Roland can you recall the the four basics because i remember emotions and the facts is not a story yeah okay i two more okay okay you see this is the four basics so first tell a story and stories all most stories are about people or about and the people can be yourself because doing research can be an adventure in itself so telling about your problem where you research or the moment you had your aha alamys then or something it can be a good story already so tell a story that's basic one two realize that the that you are not the audience and that the most of the time the audience is not really interested in too much facts and don't share powerpoint slides or all those kind of difficult graphics that you put into your research papers because people cannot see it on the screen that goes too quick and the third was emotion really important and don't make it too complicated so the video i made for you was only to to show you that it's really important that facts are not so important and as soon as you connect facts to really emotions of people that works better okay so any questions please use the chat or the but start can we in fact i would like to hear from everybody if they can start now or that they have questions so get your phone so get your phone i use it with a small tripod but get your phone and start and start shooting something and start sharing with us i think it's also important to remind the the arc of the story that you showed that the beginning or hook the middle and a nice ending which is not always easy yeah well you could think but you can think about those three different parts so the beginning the middle and the end and i can give one tip for that most of the time the easiest thing is to start with the end because just when you're walking into the mountains if you know where you want to go you can find a way to go there but if you don't know where you want to go finding the route is difficult so decide what is your last where do you want to end or what do you want to achieve with your video and start there is sometimes easier than start with the beginning okay Roland i think it's important that to because now people i think maybe they will move yeah in the room to record the video so let's say that we try we aim at being everyone back at the laptop in 20 minutes so that we can watch and comment on the video so at 10 past one please be back and with your video upload a shared on whatsapp and i again the the link to whatsapp the whatsapp chat here yes in the chat and i will put it on screen also again shoot your video and share it on whatsapp the link is on the left if you have technical questions why shooting of course that we are here what if people have questions technical questions about how to of course we are here the video we are here and we know that making your first video and sharing it with other people and being on the screen is always a little bit frightening people think it's not good enough or they are afraid it's not good enough but i think it's important just to start because the only way you learn to shoot videos and share them and tell stories is by shooting stories and shooting videos sharing them commenting on it getting feedback and then go back to and make your next video glasses exist in many parts of the world for your inspiration i want to share in between Catherine's video she made it based on this training her first video so have a look glasses exist in many parts of the world some are large ice sheets like in greenland and Antarctica others are small mountain glaces like in the outskirts we cannot see ongoing climate change glasses worldwide under you cannot see no only are you do you see it now or not yeah we can see it now yeah okay we give it another try glasses exist in many parts of the world some are large ice sheets like in greenland and Antarctica others are small mountain glaciers like in the outskirts with ongoing climate change glasses worldwide undergoing major changes many are retreating rapidly and some will disappear in our lifetime this will have massive impacts on melt water downstream and sea level and Adamson electorate at Manchester Met University my research uses geological evidence of past glacier and river behaviour so that we can understand how these systems responded to climate change in the past and therefore how they might respond to future environmental change glasses exist in many parts of the world okay okay oh are there any comments on this video our um does this inspire you to do Roland maybe we can also ask participants to make the video in front of us so we can help them out if any of them wants to try it out on their camera okay explain it I don't know uh Utkir, uh Remco, Puk, Paivi, Nicola, Lucy any of you wants to try it out Utkir I said they're all busy with their videos sorry I like it good point so we start uh she can mail it to she can we transfer it to me to maybe it's to make for Lucy you can also play it and maybe share the screen that would be also a possibility I don't have any options for anything like sharing screen I think I'm unrestricted because it's a weapon now that's that's that's not possible in this form of zoom you cannot share use attendees cannot share their screen that's a little bit stupid uh what is the best way you can send it can you send it by mail or uh or by by we transfer something like that uh yeah I should be able to send it by mail uh if you put is that your email Roland for your privacy that's your um I don't care I oh no it's wrong uh in the meantime maybe uh you have the video of Utkir there so add moffio.nl you can send it to that um yeah we see in a second video this is the video made by Utkir so I see a video by Utkir this is the water bottle that I have on my desk it says water is a human um Roland can you share the what do you want me to share the the video I think Utkir made the video let's start with that but uh okay central eight but we don't see your screen Roland one second because okay I have to download it um so in the meantime Utkir can you briefly introduce yourself or you want to introduce yourself by with a surprise from the video oh no I can introduce myself my name is Utkir Adhamlif I come from Uzbekistan and currently I study at IHE Delft I am studying water governance and diplomacy so and thank you very much for organizing this event actually I am really interested in vlogging now doing some photography and next step would be making vlogs so I am really keen on learning from all of you thank you thank you good yeah okay I share a video from Utkir okay do you see the video yes central Asia is at the edge of glaciers crisis the glaciers of the region are melting losing their weight and vanishing millions of people of the region rely on their water however the scientists argue that in a couple of decades coming the people of central Asia will not have enough water for their agricultural practices and daily use in this video I'm going to talk about why it is happening and how we should respond to mitigate the consequences stay with me glasses exist in many parts of the world some are large ice sheets like in Greenland okay relax I really um I really liked that okay I thought it was really good and I bet I really loved it was the bit at the end that says stay with me I feel like I'm really drawn in now to see what's next and to follow your story with that I really love that bit and how did you think it start was loved to start as well that kind of just despair with the whole situation loved that I could really feel the drama yeah I after watching it I genuinely get the sense that I just want to I just want to hear more about your work and what's coming with that okay and how could we improve it how would you improve it maybe you can add some images of glaciers for instance from your from from central Asia from your home country Uzbekistan and I think also maybe Roland I don't know if you want to say something about the light well I can share the screen again and then we can say a little bit more things about the details but but overall I also was hooked by this oh no there's a guy there's a guy who is really concerned yeah he's really concerned I wasn't I wasn't sure whether you wanted to be ironic which is another very interesting tools and approach to using video because of course I when you act or if you want to add especially as we're not professional actors it might be more fun and perceived as funny or ironic that would cure what do you think this was a question oh yeah thank you for your comments um yeah the time was so limited and I did not have a chance to edit it it was just like recording for for just 45 seconds so and then yeah I think it is really good idea to be as I like I really like the comments of Emanuele I think the the main idea of vlogging is to attract more attention and when we write something it is difficult to to keep the audience with us because maybe only limited people with focus on our research may stay with us but it is difficult to involve the public but they have this advantage that they can they can attract everyone right so we can be as much creative as we can I think also if you as you say if you want to attract people by telling a story with a short video um I think it's also important to recall as a role and say earlier that stories are firstly and foremost about people and about change and for instance in this case you have maybe direct experience of glaciers that are changing and they are vanishing because you have been maybe the you you hike in the mountains in your country so that's a story that you can tell instead because in the middle of your video and you give some informations about how water and why it's important for agriculture for other activities but you see I cannot even remember exactly what you said and because there I lost I lost it a bit I say okay yeah we know that water is important for so many activities and I lost and I cannot remember what you said so maybe instead of that you could tell a story my name is Utkir I come from Uzbekistan I used to go every winter I don't know skiing hiking but now in the past five years all the snow was artificial snow because or even I think it's really important what Emanuelus says it if you make the video more personal so for instance if you would start with a picture of yourself standing in Uzbekistan and saying well normally you can see the glacier here but today it's not then you make the story way more personal and way more uh tactic you can feel it because now you in the middle part you're going to give again a little bit of information about glaciers but it's still we try to feel the glaciers and we try to feel the retreat of the glacier so if you have one picture of yourself just standing there I say I'm standing here on the glacier I'm doing this you should because I really think it's important then your whole story would already make more impact because it becomes more personal so I think it's always very important also in if you make small vlogs don't talk to general about things and you didn't because I really think if something has to be happened but make it more personal and the more personal you make it the more people will accept people will accept your vlog and also will accept technical problems or technical difficulties or whatever so I think that's I thought Lucy I didn't see your video yet we had a video from Nick Volo in Roland in WhatsApp oh okay mine I'm struggling to get it off my phone it's just too big for me to send anywhere so I've been trying to transfer it to my laptop and it's still not done okay okay then we we have we'll download I'm Nicola Volo because yes this is a vlog by Nick okay we'll share the screen and see then we have a video by Nick I'm Nicola Volo I'm a paleontologist and today I'm going to bring you to a very you don't see it I'm Nicola Volo okay there we go Nick hi I'm Nicola Volo I'm a paleontologist and today I'm going to bring you to a very very special place to show you the secret weapon that reptiles use to win the race to conquest land the special place is my kitchen and the secret weapon is this one an egg eggs where the key evolutionary step to conquest land they have this protective layer that allows animals to reproduce fully on land what does it means it means that they don't have to go back to water to lay their eggs because their eggs are protected against dehydration and some sort of predators by this shell hi I'm Nicola Volo super nice Nicola hey where did you think about a while ago yeah sorry I'm just at at home I'm in my creepy basement so I couldn't you know use anything nice but luckily I was cooking my lunch and they used it yeah but we really we really liked it your video so let's start with Emanuele it's always the critical story no I really I really enjoyed that because indeed there is some mystery there's something that you want to know why and how did they conquer land so and you see I think you showed very well that every object that you have that we have around can tell a story as a story in its own and we started this workshop when everyone was locked down in this format with Roland where everyone was locked down in his room or house but still you can travel you can tell story about so many things by picking up objects around you so well done yeah I really liked it because indeed this because the question is what is your story the story starts with who can you intrigue us in the beginning when how I'm going to take you to a special place and you think and then it's very surprising because the special place is your kitchen so that makes a very nice turn around and you used and I like the first shot I'm a paleontologist and you just looked up a little bit and showed a small drawing so you I think you really used a few of the simple objects around you in you say it's my basement but you used it and you told a good story so I think this is the whole idea that it doesn't that you don't need too much resources or whatever to tell already a basic story and of course if you have a little bit more time and do the camera movements a little bit better and the light a little bit better it can be a little bit better but basically if you would share this with your friends or with people that would think oh yeah interesting I like to see the guy I like to hear his story and I like to see his presentation because so I really liked it and what do you think Nick yeah well um thank you very much um yes I agree of course with them lighting and also the camera and everything and also the script should have been a bit smoother because there were a couple of times in which I stopped uh but yeah with a with a bit more time um I think I can easy fix um these these issues um yeah and also of course yeah the lights and everything but I tried like turning the light on but it was like a sort of a big sun in the in the kitchen so yeah but we really liked it because I you really showed uh this with a little bit of time with a little bit of creativity and with a little bit of fantasy you can make in a very short time you can make a video and share and share it and that's the whole idea of also of this small workshop just to stimulate late people to do it and start doing it so uh I really liked it okay there is a question in the chat Roddanson maybe you want to answer it before closing up okay yeah there is if you want to edit your video almost a phone uh there is a very good software which is completely free and almost can do almost everything which is called capcode I put it in the chat capcode capcode is very good software to edit on your phone and well when it comes to editing on your computer or other capcode will work on your phone and it will work on any tablet and you can do almost everything with it basically capcode is the editor from tik tok capcode is the editor from tik tok but uh Poland I which chat are you using because I don't see oh I did put it in the chat here in the chat but I can also put it in the in the WhatsApp you should put it in the chat on zoom but send it to everyone oh yeah I did send it to yeah okay I'm still on the wrong panelist yep I'm sorry I did uh oh yeah that is true it's capcode and I think at this moment it's on your phone it's working very well I think uh Catherine used it uh um no I used there was another free um thing that we had on our work laptop so I just uploaded to that so actually I would say I cheated a little bit because I did use a bigger software package I should probably redo it on a phone and do it properly no no no it's of course but capcode is very capable of doing short videos on your phone it can do almost everything stabilized videos adding subtitles to it now you cannot no that's the best thing on the phone on on laptops and Apple machines it's a little bit more complicated to explain what because a lot of different kinds of if you have a little bit of butchette if you have a little bit of butchette I would use Adobe Rush but it will cost you about 10 euro a month and the strange thing is people spend time but a good thing about rush is then you can edit on your phone and you can edit on your tablet and you can edit on your computer with the same software and it even syncs between all those devices so you can start editing on your phone and finishing editing on your finishing editing on your laptop and I think it it it works very good and it's still easy software but you have especially on on laptops you have very professional software for nothing so so if you use something like Da Vinci Resolve for instance that's free software and you can it's also very professional they make large movies with it so I think we're going a little bit to the end Lucy I'm not getting anywhere with getting it off my phone yeah but but it's been really useful to see other people's and like get the comments so and and just doing it was really useful so thank you for that yeah but I will if you I will give you another link then one second um no take some time to find that link but if you do it later because you can also use we transfer from your phone yeah yeah it's just I think it's just my wife I is struggling a bit with having so many connections so it's not it's not allowing me to do much okay but if you send it to me I will still comment on it on it and because we keep the the watch app chat open so you can we keep the watch app open and I will put the few videos we have I will put on female and you can watch them there for inspiration and if you add your video I will will comment on it so and I like to see it so yeah oh yeah Nicola also said already you can use Da Vinci Resolve yeah but that Da Vinci Resolve is really if you want to go into video editing and really because it's it's very good software but it takes a little bit time to get the hang of it it's a little bit so if you beginner I I'm not recommending it but if you really want to go into making videos it's a very good very good option and of course if you're on the Mac just using iMovie is already a very good start to to do some editing I think we're about to come to an enter uh yes definitely I have to go because in five minutes I have another lecture starting here at IHEDeft but I would like to thank all the participants who stayed till the very end for your video for your consideration I think as Lucy said indeed watching other people making video making yourself video and learning commenting on each other and getting feedback is probably the best and also the funnest the the most fun way to to learn so I put in the chat the link to a blog post in which we present the the last edition of a summer course that with Roland and Juliet we organized two years ago before the pandemic here in IHEDeft it's a course called visual video storytelling for water communication and finally this year we are back so if you want to learn more you can also perhaps think of joining that summer course which is about water communication but not only of course and it's also open to external participants not only to our students yeah and you have to say it's first week of august and full first week of august full full live five days and indeed we will shoot by a lot of videos then and it's a lot of fun because it's a very international training with people from all over the world so it's time for final questions if anybody wants to give a final comment final questions final thank you for joining thank you thanks so much bye bye thank you and hope to see you soon