Content Creation for Media Arts
This 4-part content creation course will take multi-disciplined creatives through very important stages in their creative journey. Participants will be exploring the stages of starting a new creative project while picking up new creative skills to support that journey. We'll look further into how to establish a unique brand for our creative work while remaining true to our authentic story and how best to connect and engage with the creative community to maximize our reach!
Course Outline
- Week 1 - Taking the leap to launch a creative endeavour
- Week 2 - Establishing Your Brand: What sets you apart?
- Week 3 - Connecting to the Creative Community
- Week 4 - Maximizing Your Reach
Materials
- A laptop with a microphone and/or webcam and an internet connection*
- Zoom Account (register for the free account here). Link for the virtual classroom will be sent to participants on Tuesday September 15th.
*Virtual Participation
This course is an interactive learning experience. Much like our in person courses, we expect that all participants are engaging and interacting with the instructor and other participants throughout the course's duration. This means interested registrants must have access to a webcam or microphone and have them both on to be eligible to participate. You can expect each course to have introductions, room for questions and discussion.
Instructor
Liz Clarke a.k.a HTBSLE (pronounced hitta-baseelay) is a Scarborough born multi-disciplined creative. Her humble origins in the arts stem from writing stories in her childhood, sparking a passion that later developed into pursuing spoken word poetry. She has grown into an all-around hip hop artist since launching her rap career in 2019 under the alias HTBSLE, representative of her first name Elisabeth spelled backwards. She has released several singles that premiered in her debut Unmixed Tape “the humanities”. She is an award winning community builder and an accredited community educator who defines herself as a social artist, focused on using her creative content to influence long-term social impact. Her passions for visual artistry, piano composition, event coordination, videography and public speaking have led her to host her own events for young Black folks in Ottawa, to start her own business to support womxn content creators and has led to collaborations with extraordinary local and international creatives and artists.
HTBSLE is taking charge to set an example and lead the next generation of young creatives to live in the full potential and authenticity of their creative purpose.