As a participant of this workshop you will be part of the young editorial staff, who will document essential debates, topics and results of the HistoryCampus. You will use an innovative form of presentation: RSA Animate Style Videos, short films, which illustrate content and visualise interpretations, theses or controversies in a creative and impressive way through a combination of drawing and talking.
If you are good at thinking in pictures, if you can either draw, write, film, cut or edit, and if you are open to innovative methods of explaining and visualising complex topics, historical interpretations or new ideas, then this is the workshop for you!
Prior to the meeting at the HistoryCampus, you will meet your fellow workshop participants and your tutors virtually on an online platform. Your tutors will guide you through a process of researching state-of-the-art animations and other possible ways of visualising complex topics. During this preparatory stage of the HistoryCampus, you will also get in touch with participants of other workshops in order to identify central questions, core topics, and intriguing issues.
At the workshop in Berlin, you will learn the basic skills of storytelling and you will also talk about conceptualisation and technical implementation of videos. You will work in small groups; each selecting a topic, a question or an assumption related to the First World War that you are going to explore and illustrate. Then, depending on your preferences and skills, you will go out and interview people, draw the animations, produce, edit and cut your video. Here’s your chance to be creative!
Workshop speakers:
Tina Gotthardt, historian, Hamburg
Janosch Delcker, journalist, Berlin
