We believe that storytelling and image-making are powerful, yet underutilized, ways for organizations and activists to communicate the meaning and importance of their work to supporters, colleagues, donors, and the outside world. Live Oak’s team collaborates with our partners to create and implement media campaigns focused on the people, situations, and issues at the core of what they do.

With every project, our focus is twofold:

• Story Creation. Live Oak’s team works closely with our partners to determine how best to convey their stories through photography, film, or both. For some projects, this may mean producing a short film about a specific issue, creating a video profile of one person’s story, photographing a particular campaign, or something else entirely. Regardless of the medium, Live Oak understands that in an oversaturated media market, viewers need strong images and stories that make them both think and feel.
• Story Distribution. Powerful photographs and films are useless if no one sees them. Live Oak creates and executes a strategy to make sure our partners’ stories receive the attention they deserve. Whether this means redesigning a website to share these stories or organizing an event to showcase them, such as a gallery opening or a film screening, Live Oak has the experience to help our partners spread the word about who they are and the issues at the heart of their work.

While every media campaign looks different, Live Oak pays special attention to maximizing the Internet’s potential to reach the widest possible audience. Our web designers and developers can integrate our films and photographs into our partners’ websites and utilize social networking sites (like Facebook and MySpace) and content-sharing sites (like YouTube and Flickr) to help spread awareness and direct traffic back to our partners' home sites.

More than anything, Live Oak Collective is committed to telling stories that lift up the important issues and questions of our time. We feel we can be most effective in developing these stories around specific campaigns or initiatives, and we partner with individuals and organizations across a wide range of issue areas. Live Oak is committed to working with like-minded organizations of all sizes, and we believe in making our services affordable to organizations and individuals with differing budgets and resources.

To see a sample of our work, check out our Stories page above. If you’re interested in learning more about partnering with Live Oak, visit our contact page to get in touch with us. We look forward to working with you soon!