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Discover how to harness narrative to communicate your ideas more persuasively. Develop in-demand skills aligned with industry best practices, learn from leading experts, and earn a shareable digital certificate.
Discover how to harness narrative to communicate your ideas more persuasively.
Level up with micro-credentialsIndustry-ready skillsDevelop in-demand skills aligned with industry best practice you can apply immediately.
Taught by leading expertsLearn from internationally recognised academics and professionals with years of on the ground experience.
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When communicating complex ideas, narrative is everything.
This course is ideal for professionals of any sector who want to craft compelling digital stories that can convincingly communicate the progress of a project or venture, and better persuade stakeholders.
Drawing on your own professional context, learn how to drive key messages targeted at specialised audiences or stakeholders. Consider how story arcs and characters can be used as persuasive devices.
Examine the aesthetics of documentary filmmaking and consider how sound and visuals are used to communicate key messages. Define your own story world and create a storyboard that outlines a narrative.
Engage with different aspects of the filmmaking process, including ideas generation, scriptwriting, editing and curatorship. Experiment with music compositions and soundscapes and create rough-cut footage.
Prepare a project plan and budget for a hypothetical documentary, report or short series to demonstrate you can persuasively communicate a digital story to a specialist audience.
Digital Storytelling is ideal for professionals who wish to complement their existing strategic or business skillsets with creative communication abilities.
It's valuable for any professional with a need to outline a compelling narrative or vision. You may be looking to be more persuasive with your collateral for funding applications, progress reporting, marketing or quality assurance and record-keeping activities.
There are no eligibility requirements.
This course has been designed for a wide range of industries and professionals. It will enhance your capacity to persuade an audience with a range of skills and techniques that can be applied within any industry context. Drawing on your own professional context ensures you'll come away with skills you can use immediately.
By the end of this micro-credential, you'll have a greater understanding of how to make creative choices to persuade an audience. You'll be able to:
This course runs over four weeks.
Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:
Assessment:
Once you've completed this course, you will be awarded your Digital Storytelling Melbourne MicroCert. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your Melbourne MicroCert digitally and via social media by adding it to your platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.
Digital Storytelling can be taken as a stand-alone course, or you can complement it with any other micro-credential in the Artful Communications suite, in whatever order you choose.
Artful Communications includes:
This micro-credential draws on practices from the performing arts and features an immersive online learning experience. Throughout each workshop, you'll engage with digital studios and breakout rooms for active discussion and collaboration. You'll also partake in interactive and experiential activities such as guided conversations, collaborations and ensemble work, demonstrations, role-play and scenario-building.
This micro-credential will expire seven years from the date of issue as particular knowledge and/or skills may need to be refreshed.