The BBC, the Guardian, Christian Aid and Medecins Sans Frontieres are just some of the organisations who truly understand the power and cost effectiveness of digital storytelling through audio slideshows. In this one day workshop, sounddelivery will show you how to combine images with sound to tell compelling stories.

You will be taught the skills you need to collect stories, case studies and other relevant audio material, which you can combine with still images to create engaging digital stories to promote the work of your organisation. You will gain practical experience of audio editing, working with photographs and sharing your slideshows online.

By the end of the workshop, you will have the knowledge and confidence to create your own audio slideshow. You will also have a clear ideas as to how it can be used as a communiations and/or fundraising tool.

“Thanks again for leading the digital storytelling session in such an able and engaging way. I am sure that all the participants have gone away better equipped to engage our target audiences in new and creative ways. “ Alex von der Becke, The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Recognising the difference between audio slideshows and standard videos.
• Understanding the different types of audio slideshows available and exploring which ones are best suited to your organisation.
• Complete confidence in the use of recording equipment.
• Development of your interviewing techniques – how to make your interviewee comfortable, getting the best content from your interview etc
• Editing your material using low-cost editing software and preparing your slideshow to share online.

Who Should Attend?

• Communications and Campaign staff
• Marketing staff
• Frontline workers
• Fundraisers
• Chief executives
• Service Users/Supporters

All our courses can be adapted and tailored to your needs and delivered in-house. We have delivered bespoke Digital Storytelling courses for organisations including Renaissance East Midlands and MLA London.

Please note that this workshop required a reasonable level of IT literacy. Workshop handouts will be provided.

Course fee from £195.

For more information contact Jude Habib at jude@sounddelivery.org.uk

sounddelivery was asked to attend One in Four’s Conference: Talking About Mental Health-Getting it Right. The half-day conference aimed to spark a debate about how to communicate sensitively and appropriately about mental health. Delegates were encouraged to consider the way mental health is represented by the media and the public at large. Discussions centred on the “normalising” of mental health difficulties; the shock-tactic headlines used by newspapers where mental health is concerned; and the ways people working within the field of mental health “label” and represent themselves.

sounddelivery was asked to record interviews with panellists and speakers to create a podcast of the event, and provide separate edited interviews with key figures.

All the speakers and panellists have direct experience in mental health and
of working in media and communications. They included:

Alastair Campbell, formerly Tony Blair’s Director of Communications and a campaigner for mental health awareness

Debra Allcock Tyler, CEO, Directory of Social Change

Jacqui Thornton, freelance journalist and former health editor of The Sun

Heather Payne, Media Action Worker, South Warwickshire User Forum

Click below to hear the podcast from the event:

You can also listen to the interview Mark did with Alastair Campbell:

We’re putting the spotlight on how you can engage and most importantly retain corporate support for the work you do using multi-media content. This doesn’t just apply to traditional charities but also organisations including museums and the cultural and heritage sectors many of which now require corporate support.

The Family Holiday Association is a charity which is starting to provide its corporate supporters with a toolkit of multi-media content that can be used to demonstrate to people working within the company the impact their donations are making.

The toolkit includes simple photographs and video, audio case studies and audio slideshow with families who have been on funded breaks. This approach has been spearheaded by the Chief Executive who, as far as I am aware, is unique in that he actually sent himself on a podcasting workshop and has recognized the impact that these first hand stories are having. sounddelivery has been working with them for a few years to help the charity develop their use of multi media content however it is the charity themselves who’ve been working with their donors to harness this content to raise much needed funds.

One of the audio pieces we produced for the charity which we are most proud of is a short 2 minute profile of one child’s first holiday. Liam went to Skegness with his mum and cousins and spent a week at Butlins staying in a Family Holiday Association caravan.

“You cannot underestimate the power of audio, photography and video to build closer relationships with your corporate donors. I was at meeting with the marketing director of a large multinational company. I took out my IPhone and showed him an audio slideshow of a family who had directly benefited from funding his company had given our charity. I have no doubts that he left the meeting wanting to do much more to help more families.”
John McDonald, Director – Family Holiday Association

If you want to discuss how sounddelivery can help you build closer relationships with your corporate supporters using multi-media do get in touch.

The Family Holiday Association has been using audio and video in its marketing mix for many years. They know the best way of engaging people in the work they do is by presenting the families they support and getting them to tell their stories. The FHA has now formed a partnership with Thomson Airways. 50% of the donations made on board aircraft go directly to the charity. In October the Thomson Airways fundraising broke the £150,000 barrier! The FHA commissioned sounddelivery to create a number of audio features to support their key partnership and showcase their work.

This is just one of a series of multi-media case studies and stories provided for the company by the charity using cost effective production techniques.