Honoring Memories: Legacy Videos with Smartphone Videography
What you'll learn
- Learn how to recognise a story
- Discover how to help someone leave a story legacy
- Understand how to preserve someone's story for family, friends and future generations
- Know how to record local history
Requirements
- No equipment is required to follow the course
- When making films using what is taught in this course, you'll need a smartphone
Description
Life Memories are valuable, and fleeting. There is huge value in capturing them the right way on a smartphone.
Do you want to ensure the memories of loved ones, friends and family, are preserved for you and future generations the right way? Without spending excessive amounts of time and effort?
This online course will teach you how to capture life memories using proven storytelling techniques and approaches.
This course is designed to teach you the ins and outs of capturing life memories with a smartphone by showing you the art and craft of how to plan, map out and produce them. While there are other courses about smartphone interviewing, it's hard to find a course that gives you a step-by-step insight into capturing stories professionally that really will be a resource now and into the future.
This is the course for you, taught by Larry App who has personally made dozens of films of this kind. The principles and methods he teaches in this course can be applied by you today. His approach to the interviewing process is especially noteworthy.
"I'm glad to share with you from my experience over the years of helping people capture their life stories.
After taking this course, you'll appreciate the privilege and the honour of someone trusting you enough to bring you inside their personal life.
You'll know that you have done a great thing by helping someone leave a legacy with creativity, authenticity and style.
You'll experience the gratitude of the person and their family and their friends.
Those who would find particular value in this course would be those who are interested in preserving someone else's story.
Also, those who are interested in preserving their own story - and that might be you.
Local historians, genealogist teachers, students, writers, retired folks, journalists, family and friends.
This course is not for those who are interested in only the technology of capturing life stories, and those who capture life stories professionally and are satisfied with their own style.
What you'll get from this course is how to recognise a story, how to use various techniques that can be used to bring a story to life using only a smartphone and a love and appreciation for stories for their own sake.
I invite you into this course with a warm welcome. What you will learn here will set you apart from others because you'll learn to capture life stories with creativity, authenticity and style.
Looking forward to seeing you inside the course!"
- Larry App
Our Promise to You
We'll be here for you every step of the way. If you have any questions about the course content or anything related to this topic, you can always post a question in the course or send us a direct message.
We want to make this the best course on how to capture amazing life stories, using the best techniques combined with storytelling knowledge. So if there is any way we can improve this course, just tell us and we'll make it happen.
Dive Right In
This course dives right into capturing life stories with immediate examples of where they are found and how they can be drawn out. You'll learn what makes great storytelling, so that you can choose how to plan and make impactful films each and every time. You'll learn how to structure, design and deliver interviews that tell powerful and emotionally engaging stories.
Learn how to spot and interpret stories.
Learn how established interviewing principles and techniques can be used to amplify the impact of your films.
Learn how to use freely available (free and paid) apps to improve your life memory capturing.
Learn how to use the right workflow so that you save time, money and energy.
Learn how to use your craft online.
Start capturing amazing life stories today!
With our 30-day 100% money back guarantee, there is nothing holding you back from jumping in right now and trying the course out.
Go ahead and click the enroll button, and we'll see you in lesson 1!
Cheers,
Larry App & Paul Jenkins
Who this course is for:
- Those interested in preserving someone's story
- Those interested in preserving their own story
- Local historians
- Genealogists
- Teachers
- Students
- Writers
- Retired folk
- Journalists
- Families & friends of retired folk
- Librarians
- This course is NOT for filmmaking professionals who have already developed a style
Course content
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Instructors
![Paul Jenkins](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 2,455 Reviews
- 35,370 Students
- 13 Courses
After graduating with a degree in Russian in 1989, Paul worked as a researcher, producer and reporter on live interview and news shows, current affairs programs such as the BBC's 'Newsnight, magazine shows like 'The World This Week' and many current affairs programs and documentaries.
His directing career began in 1999 with 'Soldat', a feature-length film telling the story of conscripts in the then-crumbling Russian army. He went on to direct 20+ films around the world for the BBC, PBS and ARTE - specialising in tough investigations in Russia, the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere.
His most recent film was 'The Warning'. Made in 2016, it tells the extraordinary story of how the CIA and their Russian counterparts the GRU teamed up for 6 years in the 1990's to recruit the world's top scientists and grant them access to intelligence platforms and data to study climate change.
Paul started to instruct online in 2014, and now has 34,000 students in 165 countries studying filmmaking, storytelling, narration and associated skills. The Story Course is one of his popular courses, with hundreds of five star reviews.
As an audiobook narrator, Paul has voice acted in the horror, espionage and historical fiction genres among others!
In 2019, Paul founded Brilliantio as a place to pull together and celebrate and practice creativity, storytelling and personal development. It operates as a Facebook group and online membership. In 2020, he is launching a newsletter for writers while converting his experiences as a documentary filmmaker into non-fiction and fiction.
- 5.0 Instructor Rating
- 18 Reviews
- 147 Students
- 2 Courses
Although my career has been accounting, since 2005 I have been capturing Life Stories with video of people primarily in my community. The tagline "Extraordinary stories from ordinary people" tells what audience I target. They do not need to be elderly, but many of them are. The oldest interviewee was 103 years old and the youngest was 8. These types of interviews, over 250 now, have extended my story capturing to "things" in my community. An old Italian-American neighborhood has been documented as well as an 1837 grist mill (the oldest in Indiana, the oldest building in my county (1834 log house), the history of my hometown Elkhart, Indiana, and the history of our county's courthouse and its tower clock. Preserving these stories for the benefit of future generations is what I strive for... I am passionate about stories and storytelling in this way. Since I won't be able to do this forever, I would like to teach others to do what I do. I would like them to know the techniques of recognizing a story, developing it, and to tell it in a way that is authentic, creative, and using style (but no spin). This is part of my legacy... to pass on this information so that more stories can be preserved by others.
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 2,617 Reviews
- 35,417 Students
- 27 Courses
Brilliantio® was created by Paul Jenkins, an internationally known documentary film director who is also an instructor on Udemy with 33,000 students in his courses on storytelling, filmmaking and narration, personal development and business.
The Brilliantio's mission is to foster excellent learning, creative approaches and storytelling.
Apart from Paul's own courses, which are available on Udemy, we are working with excellent teachers and instructors around the world, who co-create their courses with us.
We aim for the highest standards in teaching, technical quality and ethics. Courses taught by our instructors are always based on extensive and deep personal experience.
We run two Facebook groups: 'Brilliantio' and 'Courseathon' to help people with their storytelling and to make high quality online courses rapidly.
The courses we release consistently score 4.5 or higher on Udemy. You are in safe hands!