Workshop · Mackay · Thursday 24 September 2026

Leave with content filmed.

A half-day practical intensive for business owners, creatives, professionals and modern brands who want stronger social media content with more clarity, strategy and confidence. You create content in the room, on the day, with the camera you already own.

Melanie Laas running a content training session for small business owners in Mackay

Equipment stopped being the blocker years ago.

Where the market is going

Observation

Most operators already carry a camera good enough to publish with, and still publish almost nothing.

Shift

The block is not the equipment. The block is not knowing what to film, and filming without a process to repeat.

Direction

Half a day filming under instruction produces more usable content than a month of intending to start.

What the half day covers.

Inside the workshop

  1. 01

    Short-form video and Reels

    Film stronger short-form video, with the hook, the pacing and the framing decided before the camera starts rather than fixed afterwards.

  2. 02

    Cleaner visual capture

    Capture more intentional photography and detail footage, using the phone settings and lighting checks that hold across a whole session.

  3. 03

    Efficient editing

    Edit for each platform without rebuilding the same clip three times, including the export settings that survive a platform's own compression.

  4. 04

    Hooks, storytelling and attention

    Structure content so the first two seconds earn the next ten, and those ten earn the rest.

  5. 05

    AI inside the workflow

    Integrate AI into content planning, captions and the weekly workflow, so the system still runs in a week where the work comes first.

  6. 06

    Positioning and presence

    Sharpen social media positioning and digital presence, judged against what a stranger sees in the first three seconds.

  7. 07

    A repeatable content system

    Leave with a system you run again next month without a workshop behind you.

Practical and collaborative. Not a passive learning session, and not a surface-level marketing talk.

Filming social media content on a phone during an EMME Influence workshop

On the day

Four hours, and the work happens in the room.

Thursday 24 September 2026, 9am to 1pm, at the Greater Whitsunday Innovation Hub, CQUniversity Building 4, Level 2, Mackay.

Seats are limited because the session is hands on. Every attendee films, every attendee edits, and nobody leaves with a notebook of theory and an empty camera roll.

Designed for brands wanting content that feels polished, commercially aware and aligned to the quality of their work.

Product release

Content Creator Workshop

A half-day practical intensive in Mackay. Film, capture and edit social media content in the room, and leave with a repeatable content system and a camera roll worth publishing.

A$200 One payment · AUD · Limited seats Book a seat Secure checkout by Square. The worksheet and the phone camera settings reference arrive by email the moment payment clears, and the same downloads sit on your confirmation page.

What to bring

A charged phone with storage cleared, a lens wipe, and the completed worksheet. Everything else is provided.

The worksheet and the phone camera settings reference arrive by email the moment payment clears. Completing the worksheet beforehand is what turns a half day of learning into a half day of filming.