Ideas to inspire your social impact storytelling

The Be Inspired Films blog is a great place to get video & storytelling inspiration for your charity, social enterprise, b corp, sustainability, corporate responsibility or social purpose projects. This is where we share our ideas on the best video production, animation, online events, user-generated video content & storytelling techniques & approaches.

CSR Mallen Baker CSR Mallen Baker

4 Things CSR Teams Can Learn From Marketers About Using Social Media

If you speak to CSR executives you will commonly find the following aspirations:

  • We want wider audiences to know and care about our CSR journey

  • We want to build a trusted relationship with our stakeholders

  • We want to get credit for the genuinely good work we’ve already done

In spite of these aspirations, the state of the current practice is to then proceed as though these aspirations didn’t exist, pushing out dull and data-heavy reports that may be useful to expert audiences, but not fit for purpose for the objectives above.

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Scott Drummond Scott Drummond

6 Impactful Videos From 2017 And What We Can Learn From Them

2017 was a year dominated by video content. It was the year that Instagram Stories exploded, that YouTube consolidated its position as storytelling platform of choice for creators across the globe, and that Facebook, Apple and Netflix doubled down on their investment in new video programming.

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Richard Brown Richard Brown

Lessons from 10 Years Creating Videos in the Charity Sector

With lightening speed improvements in technology, particularly how most of us now have a high powered video camera on our smartphones, it has never been easier or more affordable to record high quality video.Thanks to social media, you can now share your story with a click of a button.

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Scott Drummond Scott Drummond

3 Reasons why It’s time to Move Beyond the Hero In Storytelling.

The stories we tell have the power to make sense of - and shape - the world around us.

It’s time we looked beyond traditional heroic narratives for a more inclusive form of storytelling, a collective narrative that can bring us together to tackle the biggest challenges of our time.

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Ravinol Ravinol

Maximise the Value of your Events with Video

Do you put on events? Do you find they often require a lot of hard work and considerable expense to put on? Do you ever wish you could capture the magic and continue to share it even after the event is over?

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Lara Barbier Lara Barbier

How to Spice up your Message with Animation

Animation can be a great way to spice up a message and also a powerful tool to elicit an emotional response in the viewer, when they may otherwise not necessarily connect with your message.

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Ravinol Ravinol

Video as a Powerful Fundraising Tool

People tend to give more when they feel an emotional connection with the cause and when they feel their money will make a real and lasting difference. The challenge is how to give people this experience effectively at scale.

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Ravinol Ravinol

Let Video help you with your Perfect Pitch

Sometimes you get an opportunity that can potentially make a huge difference to your business or charity. It might be an invitation to pitch to investors or funders where a lot is riding on the outcome.

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Conor Gorman Conor Gorman

SKOLL Supports Future Social Leaders!

Conor shares his and Ravinol's experience interviewing the Skoll candidates last week, taking a look at the positive social enterprise attitude entrepreneurs are bringing to the world of business.

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