BUFVC training course “Think Visual: video storytelling in education” – a short report

Photo of Millais' 1871 painting of a seafarer telling tales to a youthful Walter Raleigh

Millais ‘Boyhood of Raleigh’ – storytelling visually…

I was not expecting our 2013 LSU Exec video to feature as part of my training day last week at the British Universities Film and Video Council.

As part of a session discussing ‘how to use video to market your university’, a link from a frothing-at-the-mouth article in the Daily Mail took us to this infamous video. How we laughed. Whilst this video received the group’s strongest reaction of the day, and was so bad technically as to make the pro videographers (and anyone with a love of music) beg the presenter to stop it, it did highlight one of the main points of the day: authenticity.

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