ONA26 Unconference - Session 1: CapCut for Community Storytelling: Workflows, Captions & Sounds That Actually Work

Speaker: Debora Charmelus, Contain

In this hands-on unconference session, we'll dig into CapCut as a practical storytelling tool for news creators and community journalists at every skill level. We'll cover the editing efficiencies that save you time, how to use captions and text overlays to make your content accessible and scroll-stopping, and how to navigate audio and music selection without getting flagged or losing your voice. Part demo, part share-out — bring your phone, bring your questions, and bring something you've made. The best tips in this room will come from each other.

Unconference sessions are attendee-generated and voted-upon programming that are less formal and require less planning than traditional conference offerings. Running in sequential hour blocks from 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM and 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM on Wednesday, April 1, these open-source concepts will close the ONA26 conference.