Dimensions of Impact | CMSI’s “Designing for Impact”

Dimensions of Impact | CMSI’s “Designing for Impact”

In this installment of the Dimensions of Impact series, we look at another report from the Center for Media and Social Impact: “Social Justice Documentary: Designing for Impact.” Written in 2011 by Jessica Clark and Barbara Abrash, this report attempts to...

Dimensions of Impact | Reviewing the Impact Playbook

The Harmony Institute and Bay Area Video Coalition’s Impact Playbook is oft-cited in the impact space as key guide for media makers to develop impact and evaluation plans for their work. The guide highlights the quantitative over the qualitative indicators of...

Dimensions of Impact | BRITDOC Foundation

In our previous posts, we examined two seminal reports on the social impact of documentary films. The Fledgling Fund’s 2008 “Assessing Creative Media’s Social Impact” introduced a framework in which compelling stories create social change...

Dimensions of Impact | Center for Media and Social Impact

In the second installment of our “Dimensions of Impact” series, we look at reports on the impact of social documentaries written by the Center for Media and Social Impact (CMSI) at American University. Founded by Patricia Aufderheide, the center describes...