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Education
One of the goals of our project is to educate people in Davis County. We want everyone interested to have an opportunity to learn how to make a movie. We will be providing workshops to those interested in learning film-making techniques. Please check back often for more information about our workshops. In the meantime, check out the educational material we have available on this website. Feel free to explore some of the links below.
Online Resources–https://vimeo.com/videoschoolvideos
Lessons Learned Along The Way
Getting Things Started
- Part of the fun is recording the journey, but just know it’s harder to create a Vlog than you would expect.
- Tell as many people you can about your project.
- Sometimes you just need to get all of your ideas down on paper before anything real can happen.
- Lunch meetings go a long way when trying to recruit people.
- Some stay with the group some go.
- Find someone to help put together a business plan.
- Once an initial group was established talk through the strategy of making a community film and establishing an educational program to support making the film.
- We quickly learned that if we were to make this a sustainable group/product we would have to do a lot more planning and assign each other roles.
- Months into the process we decided we needed official positions with official divisions of responsibilities. We decided to create a Board of Directors. CEO (Executive), CAO (Administrative), CBO/CBDO (Business), CBO (Brand), CMO (Marketing), CTO (Training), CCO (Creative), Editor/Assistant editor/Marketing, CLO (Legal), CRO (Research), Head Writer.
- When getting together a board. It would be a good idea to let board members know up front that a 4 to 5 hour weekly time commitment is expected.
- The Board of Directors has been invaluable in working together to publicize, counsel together, and brainstorm about moving a project like this forward.
- You’ll need to set up a business at some point.
- You’ll need to set up a a business bank account.
- We met in the evenings. 9:00 PM worked pretty well to meet initially. We’ve had time to finish our working day, time with our families and then been able to wrap the night up with Board Meetings.
- One of the most important parts of moving forward was putting together a business plan. Our Chief Business Officer oversaw the creation of a business plan.
- We took an entire board meeting for everyone to review and give input on the business plan up front so everyone is united on the vision from the beginning.
- We bought and installed a whiteboard. Something to write and brainstorm on is essential.
- We were using a donated space that doesn’t have a bathroom and has uncomfortable seats. If at all possible, find a meeting place with a bathroom and comfortable seats.
- We held a Meet and Greet to recruit community members to help and to promote our educational classes.
- We advertised for our Meet And Greet on Facebook, in local newspapers, and we had approximately 50 members of the community show up for the Meet and Greet.
- At the Meet and Greet we had refreshments, a demo reel featuring work of some of the board members, talked through the overall vision of the project, and allowed time for questions and answers. We went about 2 hours which seemed a little too long.
- At the meet and greet we had a few questions that were good, but focused on negative aspects of a community project. It would be good to handle those questions one on one instead of taking the time in a meet and greet.
- Our “pitch video” to recruit volunteers was amazing and brought a lot of attention to the project. We got 128 volunteers signed up to help.
- We expected FaceBook followers to do our advertising for us, but much more effort needs to be put in on the part of the board to spread the word.
- We decided to partition workshops into 3 groups. Pre-production, production, post-production.
- We advertised on Facebook and on our webpage-communityfilmproject.com- and have had 6 people sign up for the workshops. We are charging $?? for individual workshop nights, $?? for one of the series, or $160 if someone wants to sign up for all three workshop series. We hope to have more people sign up.
- Getting the word out about courses earlier, continually reminding people about courses may increase interest and enrollment. Personal contact with high schools may also have helped increase enrollment in pre-production.