Morning
9:00 – 12:00

Afternoon
1:00 – 5:00

Evening

Day1

Arrive at site

• Introductions of workshop participants (1.5 hs)
• Meet the Bridges students, name game (1.5 hours)
• Divide into groups depending on specialty (1)

• Dinner together
• Introduction to Bridges program, view sample digital stories. (2 hs)

 Day2

• What is Digital Storytelling? (1 hr)
• Cultural exchange in classroom part 1.  (1.5 hours)

• Basic photography & portraiture. (1.5)
• See Bridges students; teach portraiture, split into groups and take portraits of each other (2 hs) , Setting up your workspace & downloading photos (1 hr)

• Free time; explore town

Day3

• Storyboarding tutorial; discussion of themes, how to lay out story. (1 hr)
• View portraits participants took and discuss elements of strong portraiture (1 hr)
• Culture exchange in classroom if possible (1)

• Meet with kids, break up into groups, view portraits with students; discuss elements of strong portraiture (1 hr)
• Continue in small groups Story theme discussion; decide on stories, break into groups and storyboard. (1)
• Decide what shots you need to take and start photo shoot if time (1)

• Dinner together; explore town

Day4

• Portraits in the field (3 hs)

• Go on photo shoot in small groups with students. 

Optional: keep shooting (depending on how shoot is going)

Day5

• Audio/music /narration tutorial (effect of music on movie)

* Write narration

• go over students’ images, organize into thematic groups
• start selecting images for story
• Shoot the “gaps”
• Choose music

• go over workshop participants’ own images they’ve brought with them

Day 6

• Free morning (day trips, visit local markets, etc)

• Photoshop workflow (1 hr)
• Photoshop with students; continued photo shoot if needed (1 hr)
•  (1) continue selecting images for story (optional – continue to evening) – shoot the gaps.

Day 7

• Day trip (different depending on workshop location); free time and optional critiques

• Day trip (different depending on workshop location); free time and optional critiques

• Informal evening of looking at each other’s photos from workshop

Day 8

• Premiere Tutorial (2 hrs)

• teach kids how to put all elements together into the story using Premiere
• record narrations

• finish recording narration

Day 9

• continue working on projects in Premiere

• Continue working on projects in Premiere

Optional: work on projects more

Day 10

• Finish project

* get together with kids and have Film Festival

* last dinner with kids and goodbyes

Travel day

• Travel back to airport & goodbyes