GreyLit - "A Day in the Life " Videos using Doodly or other animated tools

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GreyLit
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Founder and CEO
(1)
3
Project
Academic experience
60 hours per learner
Learner
Canada
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
Communications Media
Skills
communication information access innovation research scripting
Details

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET:

Our Why

We can save lives, by changing the way research and information is shared.

Our Beliefs

We believe that all research matters. Insights and understandings can be gained from all types of research regardless of format, outcomes and processes.

We believe that knowledge is power. Access to the right information at the right time, allows people to make decisions that will positively change lives.

We believe that publishing doesn’t have to be painful. The technology exists that allows information to be shared, nearly instantly around the world in any format.

Our Vision

To have a positive impact on the world through the immediate access of research and information from around the globe.

Our Mission

To make front-line information accessible.

Our Values

These values indicate expected behaviour of Grey Lit team members in their daily contribution to fulfil our mission and vision. Violation of these values will result in dismissal.

  • Integrity
  • Passion
  • Excellence
  • Accessibility
  • Innovation
  • Communication
  • Discipline
  • Character
  • Consistent Execution

Our Culture

We are a performance-oriented workplace with a culture that demands flawless operational execution by setting clear, ambitious, realistic goals with high standards of performance.

The ability to use our values to turn great ideas and plans into consistently, well executed actions will be the true measure of our effectiveness as team members.

Each member of the team commits to continuous innovation and a personal and professional rejection of mediocrity. We will hold each other 100% accountable for meeting standards and delivering on commitments.

With visioning, communication and discipline we move quickly to get important things done. A deep respect for our processes and systems will drive us closer to closing the information access gap experienced by our customers

To create a strong and trusting bond with our customers. By listening to what they want from us will allow us to provide consistent and superior customer service.

This project will

Take a story, and turn it into several, short animated videos. We have purchased a membership with Doodley and hope the student can take the narrative and create animated videos with it. The narrative describes "A day in the Life" of a Women's resource Centre, and all the crazy, emotional and important work that happens in a drop in centre. The goal will be have a set of videos we can show publicly, and to our stakeholders to let them how important our work is.

KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET:

  • Re-write the narrative to create a script
  • Create several short videos that reflect key events in the women's resource centre on an average day

IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES/RÔLES/RESPONSABILITÉS:*

  • Ideally - familiarity with Doodly or a similar animated tool in which they can create the videos
  • The students will be able to take a narrative and write a script that can be used over the video

FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES/LIVRABLES DU PROJET:

  • 7-8 animated videos, max two minutes in length that describe a day in the life of a women's resource centre
Deliverables
No deliverables exist for this project.

About the company

Company
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Telecommunications, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Marketing & advertising, Public relations & communications, Publishing & printing

Grey Lit is a knowledge mobilization platform that increases access to front-line research and information by allowing members to publish and share their work while nearly instantaneously searching for and reviewing the research of their "True Peers" around the world. GreyLit helps people turn information into action months or years sooner.