​It's time to make good videos on your phone

​So you've been wanting to make videos on your phone; perhaps for work, for advocacy, or for fun. And yet, you wonder, what is the best way to make the videos? Do you need special lights and microphones? How do you edit them? What is the most effective time to post them? What are the best formats? The list goes on, and smothers all hope of your first video ever seeing the light of day....

​UNTIL NOW

​Please join Fractal Campus, Maximum New York, and Manhattan Institute for the New York (Vertical) Film Festival! Here you will show up, get direct instruction about how to make a video, and—within the course of an hour or less—you will make and post your first video. Maybe even two.

​THEN YOU ENTER THEM INTO CATEGORIES, WE'll SCREEN THE VIDEOS, AND WE AWARD PRIZES!

​Who should come to this event? People who want to make videos (loosely themed around NYC), but have been blocked. We'll unblock you, and help you post a video within an hour.

​Run of show

• ​Arrival window and snacks: 11:30am–noon

• ​Intro and video making demos: noon–12:30pm

• ​Video making around Fractal Campus: 12:30–1:30pm

• ​Submit videos to categories and break: 1:30–1:50pm

• ​Video screenings, prizes, and socializing: 1:50–2:30pm

​What you need to bring

• ​Willingness

• ​A phone for video making

• ​An app to post your video on (e.g., Instagram)

​Notes on attending

• ​We'll be taking pictures at the event to post online!

• ​The event will be governed by the Maximum New York Code of Conduct, including: have a good time, be gracious, and display the postures of stick-to-it-iveness and a positive attitude!