Sharing ideas
Worth doing
People with passion can change the world. We are here to empower them by building a community around their ideas worth doing.
Share your mind-altering ideas with the world
Discover how we contribute to a future that belongs to those with ideas worth doing.
Phase 1: Curation
You will be allocated up to 20 hours of 1:1 consultation to make sure you can communicate your thoughts and learnings in the best manner possible.
Phase 2: Production
The talks will be filmed at the University of Oxford. On the day, we will provide you with prompters and playback screens that will help you go through your video immediately after recording.
Phase 3: Distribution
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1. Curation
You will be allocated up to 10 hours of 1:1 consultation to make sure you can communicate your idea in the best manner possible. Together, we will analyse your talk content, investigate media interstitials to be inserted into the talk, and affirm its independence from any direct religious or political agendas. Furthermore, we will ensure that the talk's content adheres to TikTok and YouTube’s publishing policies. These sessions are tailored to your individual needs and entail but do not strictly adhere to the following format:
Session 1 - Introduction
Session 2 - Coherence
Session 3 - Script & Style
Session 4 - Visuals & Audience breakdown
Session 5 - Media & Distribution
Session 6 - Rehearsal
Session 7 - Editorial
Session 8 - Open hours
What is Masterclass?
MasterClass is a streaming platform with lessons on leadership, creativity, design, writing and more from 150+ world’s best experts. Each class includes around 20 video lessons that are 10 minutes long on average, along with an in-depth workbook.
What is included in a MasterClass membership through Oxford Talks?
Membership includes access to an incredible catalogue of 180+ classes taught by the world’s best on cooking, leadership, photography, writing and more. Each class includes around 20 video lessons that are 10 minutes long on average,along with an in-depth workbook. You also get access to our smartphone and TV apps, offline lessons, our members-only newsletter, and our dynamic community of members around the world.
What are Masterclass Sessions:
- Sessions by Masterclass is a hands-on format where you can learn by working on projects and activities as part of a structured curriculum in just 30 days. You will actively participate in the sessions by sharing your work with an engaged community of your peers and getting feedback from trained Teaching Assistants.
- Membership includes access to an incredible catalogue of 180+ classes taught by the world’s best on cooking, leadership, photography, writing and more.
Sessions are designed for people at all skill levels. Your instructor will walk you through a structured curriculum with step-by-step instructions but will also challenge you to go beyond the session content by exploring your owncreativity.
2. Production
The talks will be filmed at iconic venues across 50 cities we will be visiting. The decision to choose a particular venue rests with the Oxford Talks curation and production team and is primarily based on the availability and production facilities at a particular location. For our first city Oxford, we have chosen the Oxford Union
Oxford Union
The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Oxford Union, is a debating society in Oxford, England, whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford. Founded in 1823, it is one of Britain's oldest university unions and one of the world's most prestigious private students' societies.The Oxford Union has a tradition of hosting some of the world's most prominent individuals across politics, academia and popular culture, including US Presidents Ronald Reagan,Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, activists Malcolm X, the Dalai Lama, Tommy Robinson, Mother Teresa and Jordan Peterson, actors Morgan Freeman, Mark Hamill and Alec Baldwin, musicians Sir Elton John and Michael Jackson, and sportspeople Diego Maradona and Manny Pacquiao.
Timeline
To accommodate the current uncertainty caused by the pandemic and the busy schedule of your fellow orators travelling internationally, we follow a pooling format, i.e. whenever 10 orators have passed their curation training and are ready to film their talks, we book the venue and film their talks.
Equipment
Our in-house equipment list is extensive and includes cameras such as the Sony FS7,Canon C300 Mark II, Canon 1DX Mark II and Sony A7s Mark II, and Red Digital Cinema cameras – with a full complement of high-end lenses, lights and audio equipment. On the day, we will provide you with prompters and playback screens. This means you don’t have to memorise the talk content and read it off a prompter if you prefer. On the other hand,the playback screen will help you go through your video immediately after recording to have a glimpse of your performance and re-record parts where you feel necessary.
We can also accommodate reasonable lighting, stage design, or camera equipment requests.
3. Distribution
OpenSea
- An NFT of your video will be released on OpenSea to be auctioned after 1 month from the filming date.
- 25% of cash proceedings will go back to you as a "loyalty" on your digital asset and 25% will be directed to a charitable cause of your choice.
- The smart contract will be hosted on ETH.
TikTok
- Parts of the videos will be divided into 6 bite-sized educational videos and will be released on our TikTok channel with 165K followers and 2.5M likes.
- We will invite you to a series of 3 TikTok live interviews to interact with our audience.
- You will have the chance to market your product/service through our TikTok Shop.
Time
- The Oxford talks is a Red Border Contributor at TIME Magazine and we will nominate the best idea and the orator for a cover on TIME.
Frequently asked questions
Our project is specifically designed for people whose ideas are on their ascendancy at the moment. These people are not public figures or celebrities per se but have been working on their craft for years, and we believe that if their ideas get implemented to their full glory, they could change the world. So our orators are rebels, non-conformists, and trailblazers. In short, people who believe in pushing the human race forward compared to worrying about how many views their video will get.
Ideas are free, but unfortunately, blockchain isn’t. At Oxford Talks, we don’t engage in sponsorships or any activity of selling our community’s data to advertisers. To make this project self-sufficient, we charge an activation fee of £5500 that each orator pays, and we spend it as soon as we get it on production, venue hire, NFT hosting and spreading your idea on different platforms.
We offer a discounted price for the Non-Profit and Education sectors and can help setup a payment plan. Please get in touch with our finance team at finance@oxfordtalks.io for more information.
If you travel further than 100 miles to the venue in Oxford or Boston, we are happy to pay for your one-night accommodation at Marriot Oxford or at Courtyard by Marriot in Boston, respectively. Unfortunately, we can’t accommodate flights to and from the venue.
Not at all. We use NFTs and Blockchain technology to implement and monitor engagements, but as an orator, you don’t have to talk about NFTs.
From the day of joining, we would need 24hrs of your time spread across 30-45 days.
Oxford Talks has all the responsibility from identifying and curating the idea, production of the video and finally, its distribution through partners. The selection process involves fitting the orator and their idea into a diverse range of internal frameworks we have at the company. Still, we can briefly mention some which are critical:
- First-hand: The best orators are the “primary source” of their respective idea. Simply put, they’re the artist, not the art critic—the player, not the commentator.
- New or niche: There’s a fine line between being an idea being so niche that your topic won’t appeal to a broad audience and being just niche enough that the audience is surprised and fascinated by something they’ve never heard of before.
- Old problem, new way: Most of the applications we receive are for incremental improvements on an existing idea—a slightly better app or pedagogy. In other words, we’re not looking for someone who trains a faster horse: we want the speaker who invented the car! The best orators present genuinely divergent solutions.
The maximum duration of the final footage will be 10 minutes. The video will be made public on our TikTok channel as six separate bite-sized videos. However, a private copy will be hosted on Oxford Talks YouTube and auctioned at OpenSea.
Masterclass is our learning partner and provides our educators with tools and techniques to develop a compelling Oxford Class. They help us endorse our commitment to creating communities of lifelong learners and critical thinkers.
Oxford Talks doesn’t sell tickets or consider itself an event or public speaking company. We are a media technology company which seeks to create and inspire change in communities by deploying web3 technologies to establish individuals as thought leaders. Public speaking is one aspect of the whole learning experience with Oxford Talks and contributes to establishing your personal brand, but does not essentially represent the entire engagement with us.
We are filming 2500 orators across 50 cities, with each city capped at 50 ideas only. They are selected on a first-come basis after initial curational approval.
Based on the content of the video, we can target a wide arrange of audiences and demographics. Ad/Campaign Management is an in-house service delivered by Oxford Talks and is included in the activation fee.
Share your ideas
worth doing
Marie-Elizabeth Mali
Dr. Wayne Pernell
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