Hi everyone,

are you coming to Esino Lario in June and looking for some interesting things to do during Wikimania Pre-Conference? Well, perhaps this is for you: like last year, we plan to host a workshop for creating animated explainer videos for Wikimedia projects: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Explainer_Video_Workshop

Videos have become a popular format for the dissemination of information - especially short animated explainer videos which provide a quick overview over complex topics. The same principle applies to Wikipedia: videos can enrich exisiting content and provide an entertaining and easily comprehensible access to free knowledge. Together with experts from the simpleshow foundation Wikimedia Österreich offers workshops for Wikimedians which are designed to learn the tricks of the trade of screenwriting for explainer videos. The workshop might also be interested for people who attended last year, as we will also introduce a new freeware, which enables you to produce the videos yourself!

Like the other submissions we need at least 3-5 interested Wikimedians to sign up for the workshop. So please do so at the link above if you are interested :-)

Content of the workshop

* Interested participants will learn the basic skills for creating plots of explainer videos: how to explain complex topics in a short and comprehensible way, how to work with cut-out animation, storyboard conception and visualization. * The participants can create and refine their scripts and storyboards together with the simpleshow foundation after the workshop. * Depending on the topic & previous research participants can turn their scipts directly into an ilustrated video using “mysimpleshow”-freeware. * The realization and production of the finished storyboard could be done either using the “mysimpleshow”-freeware or by the simpleshow foundation. The result will be published under the CC-BY-SA license on Wikimedia Commons. * The screenwriters can use the videos for Wikipedia articles and other purposes.

What do you need?

* Interest in storytelling * A topic for an explainer video * First research on the topic (Wikipedia article niveau) * No previous knowledge in screenwriting or video production necessary

Please sign up here: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Explainer_Video_Workshop

Claudia -- Claudia Garád Executive Director

Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15 1070 Wien 0699 141 28615 www.wikimedia.at http://www.wikimedia.at/