"This field practitioner’s guide provides step-by-step guidance for creating and using participatory video within a ComDev process. The guide is part of a modular training series, but can be used as a stand-alone resource for self-learning. It is intended for use by communication practitioners, fa
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rmer and civil society organizations, field workers, extension services, farmer field schools and innovation brokers. This guide helps to identify the purpose, content and context for using participatory video as well as the advantages of using video for development, and presents tips about how to use and share participatory video. The guide will enable users to understand how to produce and share participatory video and how to use it to promote change in rural environments by engaging and giving voice to family farmers and smallholders. It explains how to use video to promote dialogue and engagement and to share knowledge and information, using the right e-platforms, tools, methods and practices to display video content and incorporate it in development processes and initiatives. The guide also touches upon the technicalities of video production, including framing shots, devising sequences, following shooting protocols and applying editing techniques.
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"While not every story might be appropriate to be realized with a mobile device or smartphone, if working with communities, capturing locations or working in the domain of personal or first-person filmmaking, the smartphone or mobile device should be considered as the camera of choice. The mobile sp
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ecificity is expressed through accessibility, mobility and its intimate and immediate qualities. These smartphone filmmaking-specific characteristics and personal forms of crafting experiences contribute to a formation of new storytelling approaches. Stylistic developments of vertical video and collaborative processes in smartphone filmmaking are evolving into hybrid formats that resonate in other film forms. This book not only develops a framework for the analysis of smartphone filmmaking but also reviews contemporary scholarship and directions within the creative arts and the creative industries." (Publisher description)
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"The 360-degree technique frees us from the limitations imposed by a traditional camera, which includes some visual elements while excluding others. It places the camera in the viewer’s hands, allowing them to choose their own angle as the story is told visually. In this handbook we provide a time
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line summarising the most important stages in the production of stories filmed in 360 degrees. We have also included some advice from our AJ Contrast experts, drawing on their long and multi-award-winning experience with 360-degree film." (Page 2)
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"En el proyecto PLAID se realizaron cursos de capacitación en vídeo para agricultores y consultores. Las experiencias obtenidas en estos cursos constituyen la base de esta guía. En ella se dan consejos sobre cómo producir vídeos informativos utilizando medios sencillos. Esta guía sigue los tre
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s pasos de toda producción de vídeo: planificación, rodaje y edición. Está centrada en los requisitos específicos de los videos para la agricultura. Esta guía está dirigida a principiantes: agricultores, consultores, pero también investigadores en proyectos nacionales e internacionales que deseen producir vídeos de instrucción sencillos como parte de sus actividades de difusión." (Resumen)
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"This handbook aims to provide practical guidelines, tips and best practice for social media news video production, based on the experience the Al Jazeera Media Network has been building over the last few years. While we’ll examine what entails producing for platforms such as YouTube, more detaile
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d content will be provided for producing real-time news videos for Facebook, given that it is the most popular platform worldwide (including in the Arab World), with 1.97 billion monthly active users.6 Its video-first strategy, including Facebook Live and 360 video, has increasingly required news organisations to develop or adjust their social video strategies, –and is likely to keep on doing so in the coming years." (Page 4)
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"Using low-Cost videos within your agricultural development project can be an effective way for increasing the scale of your activities by leveraging the expertise of local experts and farmers for a broader audience. Since the videos may be created in the field by your staff, the cost will be lower
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than professionally produced videos, and the turnaround time from concept to final product will likely be much faster. Given the cost and time benefits, you will also likely be able to create many more videos than you would be able to do otherwise. Also, if you find that one of your videos is not having the desired impact, it is much less expensive to create a newer, more effective video than it would be using a professional videographer. Last, producing videos with local stakeholders will likely increase local ownership of content, empower local farmers by giving them a voice, and increase local exposure to ICT tools." (Introduction, page ix-x)
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"Producing Videos has been called the 'bible' of video making. A bestseller over many years, it offers a comprehensive and user friendly guide to all aspects of video production - from the first chapter on using a camera (if it doesn't go in easily, don't force it) to the chapter on distribution (no
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matter what happens, always hold onto your master). All the elements of video production are covered: camera operation; scriptwriting; composition; budgeting; preproduction planning; lighting and sound recording; interview techniques; field production and studio shoots; digital editing; digital postproduction techniques; video streaming and other forms of online distribution. This edition has been fully revised and updated to cover developments in technology, promotion and distribution. It includes tips from over 120 experienced video teachers from around the world, and is illustrated with over 600 photographs and 200 diagrams." (Publisher description)
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"In ihrem Ratgeber „Digitales Filmemachen“ zeigen die Produzenten und Regisseure Dale Newton und John Gaspard angehenden Filmemacher/inn/en, wie sie digitalen Möglichkeiten richtig nutzen, wie man bereits beim Schreiben des Skripts darauf achtet, dass die Kosten nicht aus dem Ruder laufen, wied
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das Budget verlässlich kalkuliert wird, wo es das nötige Equipment gibt, wie das Team zusammengestellt, die Drehtage vorbereitet, der Dreh organisiert wird und am Computer Spezialeffekte generiert werden, die im fertigen Film spektakulär aussehen, aber in den Bilanzen eher unscheinbar bleiben. „Das beste Buch über digitales Filmemachen“, resümierte Screentalk Magazine. „Wenn es darum geht, Digitalfilme billig zu produzieren, kennen diese Typen wirklich keine Hemmungen - ein hilfreiches und sehr humorvolles Handbuch für Anfänger und Profis gleichermaßen“, lobt Oscar-Preisträger und Regisseur Jonathan Demme („Das Schweigen der Lämmer“)." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Ausgehend von den wichtigsten dramaturgischen Prinzipien bei der Entwicklung einer Filmidee bis hin zu technischen Fragen bei Schnitt und Vertonung werden in diesem Handbuch für die Jugendfilmarbeit die Grundlagen der Arbeit mit Video dargestellt und wichtige Fragen zur Filmpraxis erläutert. Ziel
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setzung des Buches ist es, in einfacher und verständlicher Sprache alles Wissenswerte über die Vorbereitung und Durchführung eines Filmprojekts mit Jugendgruppen zu vermitteln. Es richtet sich an den interessierten Laien, der grundlegende Informationen zur Arbeit mit Video sucht. Wie bereits in der ersten Auflage gliedert sich das Buch in drei Teile, die jedoch vollständig überarbeitet und aktualisiert wurden. Der erste Teil befasst sich mit der Herstellung eines Spielfilms. Hier werden die wichtigsten Prinzipien der Spielfilmproduktion mit Jugendgruppen beschrieben, angefangen von der Entwicklung eines Drehbuchs über Kameraführung bis hin zur Montage und Nachvertonung des Films. Im zweiten Teil werden die Grundlagen des dokumentarischen Arbeitens mit Video erläutert. Der letzte Teil des Buches befasst sich mit der Videotechnik. Hier wird alles Wissenswerte über Camcorder, digitale Aufzeichnung und Bearbeitung sowie über die Postproduction erläutert." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This book is an invitation—an invitation to discover the potential of a simple video camera and the power it holds to spark social change. Every day, all around the world, activists draw upon video in creative, strategic ways and use the results to ensure that silent voices are heard and importan
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t reforms are made. In this book we will show you how they do this, and how you can do it too [...] These chapters will walk you through the process of “video advocacy.” By this phrase we mean the use of video as an essential tool in social justice activism—one that can be deployed as strategically and effectively as more traditional forms of “advocacy” referring to the range of ways to exert pressure for a defi ned goal of change, including persuasion, relationship-building, lobbying, organizing, and mobilizing. We will draw on the inspiring real-life experiences of social justice video advocates worldwide—groups that have worked with the human rights organization WITNESS where I work, and a range of other wellknown and lesser-known fi gures in the activist universe. Throughout you’ll fi nd an emphasis on the emotional and empathetic aspect of video, on its humanizing ability to communicate across boundaries. We also stress the need for collaboration within organizations and among outside allies to more successfully facilitate the production and use of video." (Introduction, page xii-xiii)
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