Ep67: Daniel Bourke, Creative Media Practitioner

Today my guest is Daniel Bourke, a Creative Media Practitioner. In this episode, we find out about Daniel’s background and current professional practice in creative media production with a focus on animation and video. We explore how Daniel communicates to an audience with video. He guides us through some of the ‘how-to’ technical skills he uses, as well aspects that inform the ‘craft of storytelling’, especially with technology. Daniel outlines how he used video and other technology to create public health communication campaigns – mini documentaries – working with actual people from the community as they share their experiences. Daniel shares insights on how he uses a respectful, human-centred approach to negotiate and plan productions with actors and community members, and how he guides conversations during on-camera interviews. We chat about video production strategies, questioning techniques, building emotional rapport, and encouraging a comfortable conversation with on-camera speakers, as well as more complicated issues such as the ethics of documentary production. We explore how Daniel uses more technical, precise and mathematical approaches in motion graphics and animation to still communicate human-centred stories and ideas which evoke emotions from an audience. As you might have guessed, we talk about AI – artificial intelligence, and the role this technology might play in creative media production. Daniel emphasises how, fundamentally, humans connect with stories and how we might use video as a social communication tool in our technologically fluid world. Links: https://www.dbmedia.com.au/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbourke92/ https://www.instagram.com/dbmedia.aus/