YouTube Boot Camp:
Telling Your Story in the Digital Landscape
Join us this summer to create compelling visual stories about the issues that matter
to you: whether to raise awareness and/or incite cultural change, here is your chance
to explore the themes that matter to you and share your message with the world!
In an engaging, online format, you will join a community of like-minded individuals
who want to use the power of visual storytelling to share their ideas and stories
with the world. Whether addressing an injustice in your school or neighborhood, organizing
people who are passionate about a social issue, or crafting a personal narrative about
an issue close to your heart, there’s no better time than now to being making change.
THURSDAY: DAY ONE, 10am – 3pm
Finding your story
Developing your content
Informing your outlook
Exploring different forms
FRIDAY: DAY TWO, 10am -3pm
Creating a YouTube channel
YouTube etiquette
Recognizing brands and influencers
Understanding the elements of visual storytelling: narrative, lighting, color, editing
Shooting your video!
MONDAY: DAY THREE, 10am-3pm
Marketing
Developing a call to action
Contests and collaborations
Engaging with your audience
Sharing our videos!
Open to anyone, 15 years and older, who has something to say and wants to explore
digital ways to say it!
DATES: Thu-Fri-Mon, July 30, 31 and August 3 (You’ll have the weekend to shoot your video!)
Cost $295
Partial scholarships available. All Workshops conducted via Zoom.
For more information about YouTube Boot Camp, contact Karen Offitzer at karen.offitzer@stonybrook.com. Or call 917-297-2947.
Your Guides:
Talisa Chang
Talisa Chang is a South African-born Chinese American who is currently pursuing an
MFA in Film and TV Writing at Stony Brook University. She has worked as a reporter,
copywriter, user experience designer, and podcast audience manager, and is always
looking for new ways to encourage civic engagement and participation.
Kate Levitt
Kate Levitt is a writer and musician from Brooklyn, NY. A serial prankster, Kate’s
been involved with a handful of viral hoaxes, including faking a case to get on Judge
Judy, and creating a joke vape juice company that was picked up by Fact Magazine and
Brooklyn Magazine. Kate’s currently a ghostwriter for a social media influencer with
over 600,000 followers, and a reader for Meryl Streep’s Screenwriting Lab. Her scripted
pilot, Living, was a finalist in the Atlanta Film Festival and was awarded Showtime’s
Tony Cox award. Kate’s music projects have been profiled in Vogue Italia, The Village
Voice and on NPR.