Tag: Mobile storytelling / Community journalism
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We’re celebrating Black Joy this Black History Month
This Black History Month, we’re celebrating Black Joy! Black Joy will be an evening showcasing and celebrating stories from Southampton’s African, Caribbean and black British communities. It will be the culmination of a month-long Mobile Storytelling programme where participants learned to create, film and edit stories using a mobile phone for the very first time. […]
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Watch our mobile storytellers on BBC News
Our work empowering people from Southampton’s black and ethnically diverse communities through mobile storytelling appeared on the BBC this week. Three mums who were part of our Our Voices, Our Stories training programme shared their stories with BBC South News. Helen Jackson, Laura Racioppi and Hafsat Bello were three of eight local residents in Our […]
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Subscribe to our channel for stories, made-by-mobile, by learners on our training
We’ve launched our YouTube channel! It will be a place where we’ll share the ever-growing number of videos made by Southampton residents who’ve taken our Mobile Storytelling training. Real Southampton people and real Southampton stories showcasing the diversity of those who make up our city! Click the button below to go to our YouTube channel […]
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Mobile storytellers share their “Proud To Be” stories at our first community stories screening
Our “Proud To Be” black stories screening took place at MAST Mayflower Studios on Monday 25th October. It was the first of our community stories screenings and, to mark Black History Month, showcased stories from Southampton’s African, Caribbean and black British communities. Nine local people shared their made-by-mobile “Proud To Be” themed videos to a […]
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Over 65s learn digital media skills to tell their stories through mobile video
Proud To Be is the theme of this year’s Black History Month and we’re running a Mobile Storytelling course with that theme! Our Version Media is Proud To Be a social enterprise equipping Southampton’s black, ethnic and other under-represented communities with digital media and storytelling skills to tell their own, authentic stories. With the first Proud To Be […]
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Equipping young changemakers with media skills to amplify their social mission
With lockdown over, we’ve moved our Mobile Storytelling to Showcase Social Impact workshops from online to in-house! Whether at our base at MAST Mayflower Studios or out in the community, it’s great to be back connecting with people face-to-face! We ran our first in-person session at Northam Community Centre in August, for young people from Northam and […]
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6 impactful ways to share your video online
1. Use your social media channels Share your video on social media. This is a great way to let people know what your organisation is doing and how it is helping the community. Tweak captions per platform because, as well as word count restrictions, each might have different audiences. For example, your Twitter followers might […]
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10 steps to get you filming stories with your mobile
1. Rethink your views about video Stop visualising making a flashy video. You’ve been busy serving your community, not working as a videographer. No-one, not even you, should expect you to create a top quality video. That fear will stop you from giving it a go and prevent you from telling your stories. So grab […]
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Founder says Southampton is more than ready for its “glow up”
Our Version Media is an official media partner of Southampton’s UK City of Culture 2025 Bid. Our founder, Veronica Gordon, has been featured in Southampton 2025’s blog. In it she revealed what she loves about Southampton, why she’s supporting the city’s Bid, what culture means to her and why she thinks Southampton is more than […]