things like video editing camera work and photo journalism and overview of social media so that when you create a video you can learn how to promote it and then finally a class a new exciting class we're doing on kickstarter and kickstarter is a way that you can raise money for projects like videos or all kinds of things music books whatever you like but we're mostly focused on video and film here and my name is sam kelly i am a seattle filmmaker i've directed and produced a number of short films commercials music videos and a couple of feature films and how be the instructor for the kickstarter course helping you find ways to create dynamic video content to share with your friends to help fund your next big project and then once our series of classes is over we're going to do a three hour workshop at the ethiopian community center and there it will be a chance to learn more about essentially how you create a  film so it'll be just a short exercise to help you learn how to how to do some camera work how to do some video editing and how to bring it all together so we may even include kickstarter in that way we're figuring it out but that'll be after our classes so we'll look forward to seeing seventy there so the class is going to be starting october thirteenth is going to be saturdays one pm to three pm for the following four weeks i has been teaching these classes over the last year we've taught classes on production on social media camera work video editing digital storytelling so this is part of a series of classes that we've been  teaching pretty much all year and i'll be instructing a course about kickstarter and kickstarter is a crowdfunding website which lets you create a video in talk about what you'd like to create if it's a film or if it's a new piece of technology or if it's a poor going to zation allows you to create a video and share it with people and to get money to get money from people you know so it allows people to invest five dollars ten dollars fifty dollars anything they're able to contribute towards your overall project goal to raise money so you can complete your next big project thank you very much thank you very much hi my name's claire garrett and i'm an assistant professor at yale university in the fine arts the partner one thousand photography and i've had the pleasure of working with m m r t i the multimedia resources and training institute over the last year on program development for youth and media m m r t i is located in the heart of the bailey gets our school district on jackson and twenty third and it's a wonderful facility it's got great technology it's got up to date software it's got wonderful little studio got a ton of equipment and all that's great but what's really great about it is got these fabulous programs to teach you media teaching camera operation teaching journalistic techniques teaching sound teaching editing teaching lighting and they have a steady stream of of young people and even adults as well i believe that come in and they learn how to do media and learn how to be a voice for their community so there's some wonderful things going on here it's open to the public and i highly encourage you to take advantage of this incredible research our resources m m r t i so i think that photography and video and the arts in general are wonderful tools when you're working with you one of the purposes of this summer's youth media workshop was to engage you in their own communities to understand their communities history and to understand that they themselves are capable of being a great asset as a voice for their community so to teach kids creative expression through the photographic arts and through video allows them to see themselves differently i think and they definitely allows them to explore their own environments and see their own environments and new ways so there's nothing but good things about them also it's a lot of fun i think also when you're working with a group of youth and with video expression but also photography and you're doing documentary work you learn that they need to rely on one another and they each recogni each other's strengths and they also each recognise their own strengths and they step in they learn to work as a team members and they step in to make a project happen so we really witness a lot of that was a lot of work we are expectations of of our of our participants were really very high in six weeks we needed to teach them photography we needed to teach them documentary and writing skills we needed to teach them the history of their neighborhood these guys had to learn all about video and video editing and creating narratives and they did it in six short weeks so that was really thrilling i think when you challenge young people and give them something interesting and then you respect their cut their abilities to excel then they always do that they tend to excel so that was really exciting one of the cool things for me as a faculty person working at c l university is where a very urban university we're right in the heart of capitol hill right now heart of the city and we're just a little bit north like a ten minute walk from us the terrace and see how the university three years ago launched it's great initiative called the youth initiative and the idea is that the university can use its educational resources its faculty its knowledge its knowledge base its student body and that we can make a substantial difference in the life of the young people within the bailey gasser school district area of seattle so we've made this big commitment called the question and there's several different different ways i think that an issues initiative has grown in the last three years and one of them of course is a large involvement with the programs in their communities working with you to be able to work with them and to learn from their experiences and to work with them and pull their resources all together towards a similar goal is just really exciting there's no way that i think the fine arts department or or i by myself could do anything like the summer program nor would i want to do that by myself but working with our community partners i think really allows our community partners to expand their programming because they're working with each other maybe in new and exciting ways and they're working with the university and university students and mentors and faculty so i think everybody kind of benefits make specially hopefully the youth that participate in our programs so that's one of the things that the youth initiative is sort of about is the connecting university with communities and helping community partners who are already doing great programming to do even more of it to to help enable them to grow and to expand th