Skills Course Spotlight: Storyboard

Forge’s videography Skills Course, Storyboard, is one of the best ways to hone your visual storytelling skills. Videography is a skill relevant to all creative fields, and the lessons and skills can be applied across a wide range of interests and industries.

Storyboard focuses on narrative storytelling from start to finish; you learn to conceptualize, shoot, and edit your own work. Narrative storytelling is a particularly important skill because it proves your ability to be able to bring your own vision to life, to execute it. This concept is critical to all areas of digital media and media development. It’s also really important in marketing and developing a business or your own personal brand. Storyboard helps you become confident and organized in both your technical and soft skills that you can then apply to any number of things.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the necessary knowledge to work a DSLR camera, shoot impactful film, and edit it with popular digital media editing software. Companies are increasingly looking for candidates with in-depth knowledge of software like Adobe, and learning the basics of photo editing, graphic design, and sound mixing in addition to video are great ones to add to the list. Essentially, it’s multiple courses in one.

In addition to the technical skills, Storyboard focuses on the message of the content. You’ll learn how to shoot a wide range of products from things like personal interests to social promos to interviews and more. The wide range and looser project structure allow you to explore what kind of videos you really enjoy making and how to best foster this interest.

Storyboard’s skills and projects are designed to set you up for success. The opportunities are endless, but let’s name just a few. First, you’ll be able to truthfully say you can work Adobe products. It’s one thing to mess around with software, it’s another to genuinely feel confident. Second, you’ll have a strong foundation for the conceptualization and execution of your own personal visions and how to tell a story. And third, you’ll have a portfolio of projects to add to your resume to demonstrate what you learned and even possibly show to companies in the future for internship and job opportunities!

For more information and more on the specifics of what Storyboard offers and how, check out https://joinforge.co/storyboard

*written by Sophie Clare Eckert*