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 Melbourne MicroCert, you'll have a greater understanding of how to make creative choices to persuade an audience. You'll be able to:

• Clearly articulate a story arc including key messages for a specialist audience
• Demonstrate creative and contemporary aesthetic choices outlined through script, sketches and storyboards, music compositions and soundscapes, which reinforce key messages demonstrated through a range of genre
• Understand technologies and new media used for documentaries
• Prepare a project plan and budget for a documentary or short series.

This course runs over four weeks.

Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:

• A weekly two-hour synchronous workshop
• 8 hours asynchronous guided learning
• 12 hours independent practical experimentation
• 12 hours assessment preparation.

Assessment:

• Draft story-world (30%)
• Creation of a storyboard (30%)
• Production plans for a documentary or short series (30%)
• Observed participation in workshops (10%).

Once you've successfully 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 personal 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 Melbourne MicroCert in the Artful Communications suite, in whatever order you choose.

Artful Communications includes:

• Digital Storytelling
• Generating Creativity
• Professional Boundaries
• Dynamic Presentations (short course)
• Creative Digital Communications (short course)
• Finding Your Persuasive Voice (short course)
• Collaborative Leadership (short course)
• Improvisation, Influence and Engagement (short course)

This Melbourne MicroCert 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 Melbourne MicroCert will expire seven years from the date of issue as particular knowledge and/or skills may need to be refreshed.