A “GWG Video tutorials” international project was carried out as part of the Ghent Workgroup Creative Outreach Subcommittee work. It begun in February and ended in June 2021. In it 57 1st year students of the Graphic and Media Technology course of study of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) participated.
The aim of the project was to redesign and simplify the selected contents of the GWG video tutorials, since sometimes technical and strictly professional content can be difficult to understand. This project was carried out at the same time as the project of “GWG Infographics“, with the purpose to compare, rethink and evaluate how the same content can be represented in different ways.
The project was lead and supervised by three mentors assoc. prof. dr. Raša Urbas, assist. prof. dr. Urška Vrabič Brodnjak and assist. Andrej Učakar, who divided the students into 15 groups. Group work is crucial for students to learn working in teams, making compromises and listening to each other.
Students were given detailed instructions on how to create and redesign 8 existing GWG video tutorials. In presenting the content, which they, where needed supplemented for easier understanding, had to use the GWG style guide, which defines colors, fonts, and other elements of GWG’s corporate identity. All the videos were created in English, while some of the students decided to prepare it also in Slovene. The students showed a lot of creativity, ingenuity, innovation and willingness to work.
