Talk:Story Jam New York
Potential locations
- CUNY Macaulay Center
- UNICEF office in Manhattan
Possible activities
- Record stories using OurStories and other programs (not sure what the limitations are for what you can record with OurStories)
- Record lectures - get profs and teachers and experts to come in and talk for half an hour on something they're passionate about
- Record life stories from random people - adults, kids, everyone - wandering by on the street
- Record conversations, debates, discussions on difficult topics
- Record screencasts and demos of cool things people have done with their XOs
- Record musicians playing - XO music videos
- Record theatrical productions
- Record language lessons (see colingo.org)
- Subtitle and translate when possible (DotSub?)
'Course, the "record!" part implies there's something to record, so some groups will spend most of the weekend making something and only a little time filming it, others will spend the entire weekend shooting or writing. We can hold a public screening of the results on Sunday afternoon - a little film festival of sorts, and screen OurStories stories from other parts of the globe as well. Filming stuff would also be less bandwidth-intensive on your wifi than a software-development Jam.
What we need
- Space ( and a date and max # of people )
- Equipment (film, video, sound, editing... screening)
- People (and people to coordinate people)
- Food. Plenty of it.
- Swag, if we can get it - tshirts? silkscreen-your-own?
