Taking everything you learned through your research process, you will get to create a compelling video that tells the story of your ideal project and engages your audience with a meaningful question at the end.

It is time to share your idea with the world, or at least the Wonderment community.

• Watch the following videos:
  • Conrad and Cloe showing what they did to encourage a world with less trash:
  • Hawaii and what makes you proud of your culture?:
  • Rony and Keivan’s path that was created from Keivan’s love of soccer
  • Water and where it comes from in a Kenyan town
• Write down your answers to the following questions in regards to the videos.
  • What were the questions being asked?
  • How did these questions engage the audience?
  • How are all of the videos similar?
  • What did you like about the videos?
  • Did anything in the videos make you think in a new way?

Survey Question

• Now that you’ve done research about your community, take time to think about the community project you would like to start. Write a question of your own, just like at the end of the previous videos, that would make a great ending to a video about your ideal project for this course. Your question should be in the style of the survey questions you asked earlier, meaning short, easily answerable, and not a yes or no question.
  • Example: “How does not having access to clean water 24/7 affect your family?” or “Why do you think that your fellow classmates struggle with body image issues?”
• Share your question in the group WhatsApp chat to get feedback from the cohort.
• Ask your parents and friends the question to see what kind of answers they give.
• Revise your question if necessary. This will be your focus question for the video.

Video

• You need to create a short 1-2 minute dynamic video showing community responses to your question. But you need to be creative and think about: WHY does the story of your project need to be told?
• Before filming, decide on the key video scenes that will define your video. Sketch out all the scenes on the storyboard template (make your own copy).
• Decide on 2 or 3 key elements of a video from the list below and on this graphic organizer that you will add to your video.

Key Elements

Emotion
Emotion is the most powerful storytelling tool. It gives the audience a reason to care and helps them connect to the story. Video stories can help us understand exactly what another person is going through.

Visual Appeal
Some places, people and things are naturally visually stimulating. Fresh perspectives, angles and composition keep viewer’s attention

Action and Movement
Sequences (Wide shot, Medium shot, Close-up shot), movement, showing a process

Audio
Interview soundbites tell us what people in our stories are thinking and feeling

– Ambient Sound creates sense of place

– Narration or Voice Over ties everything together

– Audio is the backbone to a video story. It sets the tempo.

– Video edited to match audio (song) and not the other way around

Events and Moments
Video stories document unique moments in time. Look at different ways of capturing an event

Characters
The most interesting stories involve people. They show people in conflict with each other, themselves, or some other force in their worlds.

Settings and Location
Gives a sense of place with video.

– Wide shots (establishing shot) establish scene and can tell us where a story takes place and convey size and purpose of location

– Medium shots and Close-up shots can reveal detail and texture, shows location’s age, condition, energy and character

– Your setting/location transports viewer into another place and shows exactly what it’s like to be there

• Add those elements to your storyboard.
• Film your video and edit it in your favorite video editor. Don’t forget to add your question at the end of the video.
• Add your video on the Wonderment platform.
  • Create your own path on the Wonderment.
  • Choose Menu in the upper right hand corner.
  • Choose Create from the drop down menu.
  • Choose Start a Path.
  • Add your video to the path along with a title, description and the Project Wonder collective.
  • Share your video with the group.

If you have any questions, please let us know!