Mentoring with Media Trust

A few years ago, before NDMI, I registered as a volunteer with Media Trust's Media Matching service.  Media Matching is a professional volunteering service for media and communications professionals with two years experience working in media and communications roles. As a volunteer you can provide one-to-one advice; support and guidance to charities, this can be on a one-off basis through email or phone; or it can be an on-going relationship over weeks and months and maybe even years! 

I originally signed up to offer mentoring for web design and digital marketing but when I set up NDMI I added video production to my offer.

Last week I held my first workshop with the community musicians at Wren Music in Okehampton.  Wren is a fabulous charity running folk choirs and orchestras and bringing folk music to the people of Devon and beyond. The staff record a lot of video in their work but tend to end up with a computer full of footage and never use it. 

Together we talked about what Wren would like to use video for and worked out a way forward for capturing, editing, sharing and storing their video footage.  

Everyone felt the day was really beneficial and one member of staff commented that the session had given her the confidence to go out there and record and edit video for her work where she had been really reluctant beforehand.

We had a fun time setting up a shoot in the fabulous new premises at Ebenezer Hall in Okehampton and I was even treated to an impromptu concert in the overgrown graveyard outside!

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