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Using Digital Video (DV) as a medium for Process Documentation (PD)

Using Digital Video (DV) as a medium for Process Documentation (PD). By Joshka Wessels. I hear I forget I see I remember I do and I understand Chinese Proverb. Participatory Video (PV) Process Documentation (PD) Most Significant Change (MSC) Learning Alliances (LA)

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Using Digital Video (DV) as a medium for Process Documentation (PD)

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  1. Using Digital Video (DV) as a medium for Process Documentation (PD) By Joshka Wessels

  2. I hear I forget I see I remember I do and I understand Chinese Proverb

  3. Participatory Video (PV) Process Documentation (PD) Most Significant Change (MSC) Learning Alliances (LA) Participatory Action Research (PAR) Principles are “participatory”

  4. Too often the medium of video is used for advocacy and raising awareness ONLY Video knows many faces

  5. New approaches in communicating with civil society, people, farmers and scientists involving them in identifying issues that affected them most directly The use of video in social change

  6. Access to digital video technology (DV) is wider than ever before Capturing fully what happens on the ground Document significant events Record culture, practices and history A tool for PD

  7. Enhance and empower voices Give opportunity to create own vision Disseminate research results Facilitate horizontal and vertical communication and learning A tool for PD (2)

  8. Capture wide range Clear story telling Facilitates communication Reach a wide audience Brings relationships to surface Entertaining for everyone Variety of uses Intimidating for stakeholders Complex technology Difficult access remote areas Too much focus on technology Can stir and upset power relations Time consuming Strenuous for budgets Advantage/Disadvantages

  9. Plethora of various formats and purposes Internal or external production Interactive use/ICT based technologies Learning Alliances The main aspect of a video product is the principle of storytelling Production process for PD

  10. 5 W's; Who, What, When, Where, and Why Protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, turning point, dialog, introduction, conclusion, narration, and points of view Think 4D: Moving image, music & sound design, space, people, duration, location Two styles of approach: storyboard and script Creating an audiovisual story

  11. Listen carefully to each other’s ideas Respect each other’s opinion Tolerance for difference No looking good at another’s expense, applaud others’ successes There is more than one answer for the task at hand Attempt to listen naively as if you do not possess prior knowledge The Basics

  12. Pre-production Production Post-production The Process

  13. Camera operator Sound person Director Producer Editor Executive producer The Team

  14. “Sound is more important than image” Sound and image

  15. Extreme Close Up Close Up - POWERFUL Medium shot – BREAD AND BUTTER Long or wide shot – LOTS OF INFORMATION Extreme Long shot Fundamental shots

  16. Different camera angles Establishing shot Cut-away or insert Shot/reverse shot Over-shoulder shot Point-of-view shot Coverage of an event

  17. Rule of thirds Head and nose room Diagonals Depth Centre of interest Number of people Camera height THE 180 DEGREES RULE ..… Conventions for composition

  18. Select frame and record a shot long enough Shoot to edit and think in a non-linear way Better to move in than zoom in Keep steady and don’t move while recording Lighting…the terrible backlight problem. Sound ….the terrible windy deserts Kids…..People in the background….. Noise, Radios …. Tips for shooting

  19. VIDEO IS BIG: 4,5 minutes = 1 GIGABYTE Documentary 30:1 Feature film 12:1 Video clips 6:1 News items 3:1 How much material ?

  20. Think non-lineair and 4D Work with structure and layers 1 timeline with shots down to 25 frames in a second More than 99 audio channels More than 99 video layers Shoot-to-edit

  21. Is the content compelling? Do I have the sequence structure ? Do I have the coverage ? Does it fit in the story ? Selecting shots

  22. The cinematographic approach The journalistic approach Jumpcuts Hard cut or effects Breaking the rules and conventions Editing

  23. TIMECODE, TIMECODE, TIMECODE Structure, structure, structure Good preparation and logging How to keep an editor happy

  24. Upscaling experiences Broad and narrow cast Videotape, CD-ROM DVD Internet www.youtube.com/switchpdoc Distribution

  25. Powerful tool; who owns it ? Facilitate communication Wakes people up Can create conflict or controversy Whose point of view ? The politics of video

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