A process for visual storytelling

6. Journalistic video approach - Sharing your harvest with others

After you’ve started harvesting your first video stories, you can share your harvest with others and invite them to take part. This is done by creating a journalistic video. This means interviewing someone as part of your video and inviting their perspective in sharing part of your story with them.

This approach is especially useful when you want to share and highlight someone else’s perception, experience or knowledge on a specific issue. It’s a way of storytelling that uses a set of questions to investigate a specific topic. This approach depends on the storyteller’s ability to conduct a good interview to be able to share other’s point of view. Here is a brief video tutorial illustrating what we mean by conducting a good interview:

Some of the tools shown in this video might be useful for the digital stories that you are going to produce, too. If there is someone else in your community who is not participating in the course, but who’s perspective you’d like to include, this is how you might go about including them.