Personal Video Project

From Vision - Multimedia Education

Contents 1 1. Toolkit 2 2. Why I want to use this toolkit? 2.1 Aims of Personal Video Project 3 3 What is it ? 4 What can I do with it? 4.1 Video-clips 4.2 Video-walk 4.3 Self Portrait 4.4 Citiy Symphony 4.5 Fanfition 4.6 Remix 4.7 Short Reports 5 5. Who can use it 6 3. What do I need?' 6.1 Dispositive 6.2 Templates 7 4. What can I do with it 8 5 How can I use it ? 9 6. How can I make it? 10 7. What´s more?

1. Toolkit

This tool use video as a powerful media to express our ideas and our

1. Plan it!
2. Record it!
3. Edit!
4. Share it!

2. Why I want to use this toolkit?

• Youngsters love video
• Video is a tool to inquiry the world and to build our own audiovisual essays.

Video as a mirror! Video is a tool to work on identity: personal identity . Video as a Window! To look at the world, to discover the other Video as a framework. We learn how to recognize the importance of the point of view.

• Video as a carrot*Working video project you can work also the general communication skills and it's fun!
• Nowadays media literacy is a basic skill.

Aims of Personal Video Project

Media literacy stands for the capacity of write and reed media. A personal Video Project give the tools to do it. The final project could has different shapes it depends on what does the youngster want to do. So This toolkit would give the basic information on the tools but also on audiovisual language and the different forms that a media project has.

Make it fun!
Youngsters likes to use video to express their thoughts and wishes. There are some formats that they like and that they do watch and do. So that we think that is important we document them: self-portrait, city-walk, video-essay, mini-documentary, remix, video-clip, short-fiction, fan-fiction, live TV show.

Make it remix!
It's a collage, it's a montage, it's a remix! The most important fact that anyone has to be aware on media is that all media messages no matter which channel or medium we are using are a CONSTRUCTION. They aren't neither a mirror, neither a window through which we can look at the real. This fact has a lot of consequences.To recognize the references, to learn what images and sounds we can use and how to do it. To learn the limits on the quote, and the property rights.

"Make it transmedia!"
Transmedia could be understand as multi-platform but also when it refers to story it means a change on the conception of the storytelling. We want to share the basics of transmedia storytelling! We understand that this projects are transmedia. They have an audiovisual nature but that it's also digital and that is able to be on different screens, different channels, and that each one allows us to make our video project be more connected with our audience.

Make it open!
We share, so we are not pirates, so we are good citizens. We know that all texts are hypertext, so let's learn how to use creative commons, and open and free licenses, and repositories: So we can search open material on [1] -So this tool kit is made of:

3 What is it ?

This toolkit want to collect the basics skills on media literacy that already exist and propose a set of possible activities to work with youngsters that use the most powerful of video on the web.

Instructions to select and use the media dispositive on:

• Shooting
• Editing
• Publishing
• Sharing
• Watching

Media literacy set:

• We are opening a section with the sharpest questions that are the starting point of reflection on any Personal Video Projects.
  • Who has made this message? So can I trust? Why?
  • Who this message suppose that I am?
  • How are the protagonist of the message portrayed? How are characterized?
  • Which is the purpose of that message?
  • What does the media relation with the content?
  • There's any manipulation over the content or over the effect of the message that I perceive?

• Transmedia storytelling basics
• AV formats descriptions
• AV teamwork and collaboration routines
• AV project work
• AV licences

What can I do with it?

Video-clips

This is one of the types of video that young people prefer to watch. So what we need here is that they find a song that they can make a video about and then go for it! They can work with a independent band they know or just find some song that they like with an creative commons license that make it able to be use. Then they have to plan the project, then search or record the best images, learn the most important technics to edition and post-production and finally use an properly license to share his work again!

• • Video-Clip

Video-walk

• • Video-walk [2]

Self Portrait

• • AV Selfportrait

Citiy Symphony

• • Citysymphony

Fanfition

• • Fanfiction

Remix

• • Remix

Short Reports

• • Short Reports

5. Who can use it

• Youth workers
• Teachers
• Youngsters

3. What do I need?'

Dispositive

• Camera: Camcorder, digital camera, mobile camera.
• Microphone
• Computer
• wires

Templates

• Project
• literary script
• Technical script
• Storyboard
• Production

4. What can I do with it

5 How can I use it ?

To use this toolkit you need a basic audiovisual set.

First step: Here we propose you to look at this resource to choose the one that fits for you. It's cool and simple: http://makeinternettv.org/ Second step: Now that you know which is your technical equipment you can choose one of the workshops that we propose you

6. How can I make it?

7. What´s more?

7.1 BIBLIOGRAPHY

• AV pedagogical framework:

"Conference: Tisseron",

• EACEA documents on media literacy. Freinet.

7.2 USEFUL INFORMATION? A. AUTHOR B. LICENSE C. ORG WEB CONTACT =