 Thank you so much for joining our session today with TechSoup. My name is Edidion Umo Ebigwai, and I'm the host for today's event. And today we're looking at video editing skills for non-profit in the name of TechSoup Nigeria. And if you're joining this event for the first time, I'd like to sort of introduce what TechSoup is before we go on. And so TechSoup equips change makers with the transformology solutions and skills that they need to implement globally and locally. And for us as at TechSoup, if you're TechSoup today, you have access to online courses at this or pre-reads it. Sometimes you get to have a component coach be able to assess some of this. And then you also get to assess tools and facilities that can help you in your non-profit, in the growth of your non-profit organizations. So having said that, like I said earlier, I'm a member of the Nigerian chapter of TechSoup. So we'll quickly move on to what we have for today, which is video editing skills storytelling. Now, I thought it was important that we learn more about video editing, especially in connection to non-profit impact story and telling about what you have done so far in the platform for you to get to promote your organization's mission. And of course, we try to potential sponsors and partners for your event quickly. Editing is the ability or an activity in which you, you, TechSoup, put together motion and still pictures into a creative, informative, educated or entertaining piece. So basically, video editing is quite raw, like there's a lot to do when it comes to video editing. But as you already know, essentially, you have to learn to be tech savvy or be able to edit videos. There are simple tools that you can use on your smartphone to collect content and edit them together into very inspiring pieces, I would say. So a few skills, there are some skills that, yes, you would need because of a very creative approach of telling your organization's impact story. Welcome, Desmond. Thank you for joining us. The events we're having today is basically video editing skills for non-profit storytelling and is accessible on my page. As long as you are on a resume page. Let's go ahead and continue. So basically, these skills that are involved in video editing are technique and style. Of course, for you to have a key video, you need to have some sense of style knowing how to put your content together. Okay, you need to have clarity of purpose. Why do you want to even do a video, create a video for your programs? You need to have a class, easy for fundraising. Is it for, do you want to showcase your organization's mission? Or do you want to use it to rate funds? Or do you want to have a call to act? So you need to be able to answer the questions before you even go ahead to collect and put your clips together. You need to have a good voice or rescue, especially for those of you who are interested in being a voice over artist. So you need to have a clear voice, a voice that is celebrity, everyone. And of course, you need to have audience appropriateness. What type of audience are you creating this video for? Is it for charities? Is it for, I mean, which of your stakeholders are you creating a video for? Or do you want this video to reach? Then of course, you need to be creative. Creativity is really vast. It can be creative in different ways. So when it comes to video editing, how do you put your content together? The pictures you are selecting, the videos you are selecting, the background that you are using, the type of content or questions that you want that video to answer. And your transition, the video elements and all of that, you need to be creative enough to know what comes before and what comes next. Then as a video editor, you need to pay attention to when you have content, like you have a video content. And then you have the still emotion. And you also have the text, some animation in between, some effects and all of that. So you need to be a person who pays attention to details. And of course, you need to be patient because video editing is time taking and it will work. We need to be together. You need to be patient as a video editor in your smartphone. Okay, yes. So I am between the advantages of video editing when it comes to non-profit. So when you are telling your impact story, video editing helps you target your audience. It helps you have a focus on where and getting your attention. Then you need to turn it in a timely way. You don't need to probably attend a conference to be able to talk about all of watching. You can simply put together your pieces from a particular project or program that you have had and post on your social media pages. And you get people to view that. And you never can tell where your next console would come from. So I would say that you should actually do a video. Then it helps you infer strategic tool when it comes to sorry, video content of our story is actually very strategic tool when it comes to fundraising. And we know that currently people are a lot more captivated by videos, pictures, you know, motion content. So if there's any time that you can respond at a non-governmental or non-profit organization, I think that the best time is now because there are people who are looking forward to seeing what you have done and you know being able to connect with your story. Then yeah, video, video content helps you show piece of beneficiaries and how your project or program have benefitted them in very important ways. Now you can non-profit organization can actually use video content to educate and build awareness about the organization's mission. So you're looking for content for let's say your Instagram page and you of same content that are not that are not attracting enough engagement. I think it's time to switch to video content. It could be as real as it could be a live program, it could be a live event that's your streaming, you know, say it's bringing together a big tech content, not a live content, right? So with that you can you can you can use that to educate and build awareness around what you're and you can also you've got to tell captivating stories about your work impact and you can testimonial from then you can use videos to we call for volunteer, I call for donation, call for people to you know, donate items for your social cause. Videos are a very strategic way to achieve you know, to achieve that objective. Then you can use videos to we need them to activity and drive traffic to the website or your social media accounts. So before I go in in tools, I will say that there are five C's to video editing and the first is and the first C is clarity. Like I said earlier, you need to be clear on the type of content that you want to have on your having your video. You also need to be clear about the type of content that you want to be at the next stage you want to pass a question. Then your video has to your video content has to be correct. So if you are using your video to let's say you are the type of content that you are data using data content or analysis and stuff like that your information has to be correct and of course you need to verify information before you put that out there. It has to be concise. Nobody wants to watch the video right. So you have to make your video as simple and straight to the point as possible. Then again it has to be comprehensible. At a go I should be able to learn. Your question works. All this video content is for a call to action or just telling stories about beneficiaries about how a beneficiary has transited from one level of impact to another from as a result of being in touch being impacted by your organization then the last thing is consistency. So you are really a consistent beef. So if you have a voice over at the background your the voice over has the pictures or the pictures that you are using on that particular piece. Okay so I'm hoping that after this time we can have a maybe we can connect better and have a more practical session. So the last thing I'll be talking about are different tools that you can use to create video content. So like I said if you're thinking about editing videos you don't need to worry about using sophisticated tools or a laptop and stuff you can use your smartphone as long as you have a smartphone as your app you have phone track me you can connect video content and edit them using apps and you know simple apps and softwares are very so examples of this app of these applications are in short and no in short is sort of really popular out of the world in short is used to you can use in short to edit motion still yeah and text as well you can also use it to create photo collage you can use it to watermark your video it has quite you know vast use and it is very and simple to I mean I think it's the most it's the easiest phone it's the easiest phone video to use then you have video creation which has which comes with already existing templates you might need to subscribe for a premium subscribe to be able to access the content from video creation then you have kind of a style you have render forest and canvas render forest software I would say that you can access both on a desktop and on mobile phone and render forest for um big organized and comes with a variety of tools template render forest so for me with render forest you can create animation animation you can create 3D and 2D explain you can create light board black board or glass board animation I mean things like that it's actually very comprehensive tool then far from video editing render forest also have tools for for web designing graphics designing and mock-ups so it actually could mock that for it and could also have the editing tools I know most people are familiar with Canva for their graphics design tools but I mean more than graphics design you can also edit videos on Canva yes youtube as well yes youtube now you can edit your videos on youtube so if you feel more comfortable with that then there is intro video and the text explainer and what have you so these tools I have mentioned are very very useful and available in you know being able to put together your video content to tell your impact story in a very and apparently so I've come to the end of our session today like I said I would be happy for us to connect for that so we can have a more practical session say on the WhatsApp group or on the WhatsApp group so be able to learn how to use these tools thank you so much and I'll just turn on the okay I think you can on yourself not to ask questions if you can if you have any questions good afternoon your question again good afternoon can you hear me good afternoon I really appreciate this this is a very interesting oh topic and your strategy is so easy and I want to say thank you very much oh I like about the practical aspect how do we connect how do we connect for that okay um let me see if I can drop my phone number in the Q&A session so you can just um take it up from there okay yes so I'm dropping my contacts now you can reach me on WhatsApp 08 06 9 4 3 8 1 5 please can you hold on so I can get the contact give me I've dropped this in the Q&A session I've also dropped in my email address so that you can reach me in that general of your phone call if you drop it in my no no no no no in the Q&A session just open your Q&A session you see my email address there and my phone number as a segment of this of this program of this event have you seen it I've not seen the your number on okay that book all right so let me just call it again um are you are you ready hold on please okay okay you can call it now okay so 08 06 so okay 8 1 9 4 3 8 1 08 06 9 4 281 59 that correct yes that yes that's correct that's correct so which of the tools would you be interested in learning if you just try to flash me hi this one oh he's just all right thank you so much for being part of our session today I hope to be able to host another one anytime soon and you'll actually get notification about our next event thank you and enjoy the rest of your weekend