Smart Capture Training

Your communications team can’t be everywhere. Capture more of the moments that matter with the people who are already there.

There are valuable stories happening across your organisation every day, and most of them are never captured. Smart Capture Training gives the people who are already there a simple, structured way to capture useful video, photos and audio, then hand it back in a form your communications team can actually use.

Glorious, useful assets. Less editing. No random footage to sort through.
They were there. They had a camera in their pocket. They wanted to help. They just didn’t know what you needed.
The Problem

We’ve all received the footage. Three versions of the same shot. Terrible audio. No wide shot. No context. No release. And the genuinely brilliant moment happened just before they started recording.

What if they knew exactly what you needed?
The Transformation

Useful content, captured on purpose.

Smart Capture teaches people to capture a connected sequence that tells the story without leaving Comms hunting for the missing context. The right shots, useful stills, usable audio and the information needed to put it all to work.

Less footage. Better choices. More usable content.
Useful video

Capture a connected sequence that tells the story.

Useful assets

The right shots, useful stills, usable audio and the information needed to put it all to work.

Useful hand-off

Hand it back in a form your communications team can actually use.

NO EDIT REQUIRED

This video was edited with the pause-edit method while filming.

Low-Edit Smart Capture Video

Record. Pause. Reframe. Continue.

Record Pause Reframe Continue

Using Pause-Edit, participants learn to build a connected sequence as they capture it. For simple stories, the result can be surprisingly close to a finished video before anyone opens an editing app.

The goal isn’t no editing. It’s no unnecessary editing.
The Workshop

First, make it work. Then make it better.

Participants start capturing almost immediately, then build the handful of skills that make the biggest difference.

Plan
Capture
Frame
Move
Light
Sound
Hand it off
No filmmaking degree required. No afternoon spent discussing the rule of thirds. Make something. Review it. Improve it. Make it again.
Reassurance

More people capturing doesn’t mean more people publishing.

Your communications team retains control of what gets edited, approved and published. Smart Capture simply gives the people closest to the action a better way to capture useful material and send it back.

Distributed capture. Centralised control.
Smart Capture Workshop

Practical half-day training for people close to the action.

Full-day, larger-team and organisation-specific workshops are also available.

  • Practical half-day training
  • Up to 12 participants
  • Hands-on capture exercises
  • Smart Capture recipes and resources
$1,650 + GST

Your people are already there when the moments happen.

Give them a simple way to recognise what matters, capture it deliberately and get it back to the people who can put it to work.

Let’s capture more of the moments that matter.

What are you trying to achieve?

Every good project starts with understanding the problem first. Tell me what you’re trying to achieve, what isn’t working, or what you’d like your audience to understand or do.  You don’t need to have the solution worked out. If you already have a brief, send it through. If you just have a problem that needs solving, that’s a perfectly good place to start.

Paddy filming the page

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