Video4Change Network Blog
Another video4change Approach? Video Mash-ups
Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman by Dara Birnbaum. One of the earliest examples of subversive political remix videos. While it falls into the high-art category, this video inspired many video artists to work with pop culture imagery (McIntosh).One of the...
Video for Change Approaches (Part 2)
By Tanya Notley and Julie Fisher VIDEO: Burma VJ tells the story of independent Burmese reporters who used pocket-sized video cameras and a networked approach to expose the repressive regime controlling their country, following a people's uprising. In our last post we...
Video for Change Approaches (Part 1)
"Video: The Videofreex were a pioneering video collective who used the Sony Portapak for countercultural video projects from 1969 to 1978." After defining Video for Change (see this post) we came up with a list of different approaches to ‘doing it’ based on a review...
Video for Change: What is It and Who does It?
A few months ago we started our research for the video4change network. The aim of this research is to learn from the different ways that individuals, groups or organisations are measuring the impact of video for change projects. To get to this we felt we had to start...
Exploring Video Advocacy, Impact and Social Change
Over the past few months, the video4change network has been busy starting the 'video4change Impact Research'. Through this research, we are looking to come up with a preliminary set of impact indicators by conducting a literature review, and interviewing video4change...
Welcome to Video4Change
In June 2012 a global gathering of 15 Video for Change organisations was held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The event sparked a number of collaborations and reinforced the importance of video in campaigning, advocacy and social change. The result of that meeting was a new...
Asas-asas Keselamatan Video: Do No Harm
Pertanyaan utama/asas sewaktu menilai risiko adalah:Apa tindak balas yang mungkin akan anda atau orang lain hadapi? Adakah ia berbaloi/layak?Bolehkah cara-cara yang anda pakai berbalik dan menghalangi dari mencapai tujuan atau matlamat advokasi anda?Adakah ia...
Isu keselamatan/keamanan: Hosting secara selamat/aman
Hosting isi video bukan tugasan/perkara kecil. Tidak seperti isi yang berbasiskan/berasaskan teks, membuat salinan cakera/disk yang penuh dengan video dapat mengambil masa berjam-jam jika tidak berhari-hari. Jika sebuah situs hosting video independent rusak, apa yang...
Asas-asas Keselamatan Video: Do No Harm
Pertanyaan utama/asas sewaktu menilai risiko adalah:Apa tindak balas yang mungkin akan anda atau orang lain hadapi? Adakah ia berbaloi/layak?Bolehkah cara-cara yang anda pakai berbalik dan menghalangi dari mencapai tujuan atau matlamat advokasi anda?Adakah ia...
Security with Mobile Video: Some Tips
In some situations, filming may compromise your safety. Here are some steps you can take: Preserve your anonymity – use a pre-paid, not a contract phone, and an unregistered SIM card and top-up cards. Supporters can buy top-up cards on behalf of the phone...