Video4Change Network Blog
The ‘Untouchable’ Teen Video Journalist Challenging Indian Corruption
A film highlighting Video Volunteer correspondent Mukesh, a 19-year-old who documents corruption in his region's school system. 19-year-old Mukesh was born into an 'untouchable' community in impoverished rural India. Now, as a correspondent for Video Volunteers, he...
How to Use YouTube’s New Blurring Feature to Protect Identities
In late February, YouTube released a new version of their custom blurring function. This feature allows users to blur select items in their videos such as faces or identifying information. By WITNESSIn late February, YouTube released a new version of their custom...
Understanding Impact
Ever since I started my work for the Video4Change Network, I’ve been continuously confronted with the word, “impact”. What is it? How do we measure it? How do we define it? And how do we communicate it to others? Ever since I started my work for the Video4Change...
Enabling Storytelling
Today, video has quite possibly become the strongest conveyor of stories. Considering the power of storytelling, its potential to leave you hanging by the edge of your seat, change minds and force audiences to see things differently, it is no wonder video is so...
Webinar: Video for Change and Impact
Join New Tactics in Human Rights and other Video for Change organizations for an online conversation on Video for Change and Impact from February 22-26, 2016.
Storymaker 2 Officially Launched
We are proud to announce the release of version 2.0 of Storymaker, a tool to help anyone learn to make and share better stories, with or without internet access. By Brian Conley, Small World NewsDownload StoryMaker 2It has been just over a year since the generous...
New Mobile App ‘CameraV’ Helps Documenters Create Verifiable Media
One of the major challenges that we’ve aimed to tackle in recent years is how to verify and find contextual information about pieces of citizen media. And for the last few years, along with the digital security collective The Guardian Project, we’ve been working on a...
Impact Story: Handpump Repaired in Tati Village
In April 2015, I made a video on the issue of access to water in Kamdara block’s Tati village which comes under Rampur panchayat. The hand pump had been broken for 6 months. All the sources of water accessible to the community were dirty or not working at all. I...
Is It All About Creating Impact?
Today, audiovisual recording devices are everywhere. But does picking one up and hitting record necessarily mean creating an impact? Are people generally concerned, or even aware, of the impact a video can have? Today, audiovisual recording devices are everywhere. But...
Round Up of our 2015 Focus For Change Benefit
On November 12, 2015, WITNESS celebrated the power of video to bring about justice at our annual Focus for Change Benefit in New York City. Co-hosted by the amazing Femi Oke and Peter Gabriel (via BeamPro robot), the night was a huge success! With the generous help of...