Tips and tools to support your communications efforts through visual storytelling.
How to get fabulous creative workshop
Phil Bilbrough's Community Comms Collective workshop on working with designers (30 November 2018).
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How to get fabulous creative – presentation slides
(PDF 970kb)
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How to get fabulous creative – handout
(PDF 46kb)
Easy videomaking
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Everything You Need to Shoot Good-Looking Video With Your iPhone
(lifehacker.com)
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10 steps to creating professional video on your phone
(getaheadmedia.com)
Note: you need to provide your email address to be sent the getaheadmedia e-book
Low-cost tools to create great visual content
These tools make it easier and cost effective to create engaging visual content for your communications channels.
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Canva - graphic design tools
(canva.com)
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Pablo - more graphic design tools
(publo.buffer.com)
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Piktochart - easy-to-use infographic maker
(piktochart.com)
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Boomerang - looping mini videos
(instagram.com)
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PicMonkey - online image editing
(picmonkey.com)
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Lumen5 - video creation platform
(lumen5.com)
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The 9 best word cloud generators
(polleverywhere.com)
Free stock images
These image databases are a good alternative if you're unable to commission or source photographs (eg, from a volunteer keen to practice their photography skills) for your communications channels. The photos are free of any copyright, so are a much safer bet than googling images, which may have restrictions and/or require attribution.
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Pexels
(pexels.com)
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Pixabay
(pixabay.com)
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Te Papa's collections
(tepapa.govt.nz)
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New Zealand Story
(nzstory.govt.nz)
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Skuawk
(skuawk.com)
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Unsplash
(unsplash.com)
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Free and Freemium Stock Photos
(whoishostingthis.com)
Film for Change Aotearoa
An (AMAZING) organisation that connects volunteer filmmakers with charitable organisations to collaboratively make short films that celebrate and promote the work of charities in New Zealand.
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