Personal Video Project

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Personal Video Project toolkit

Your vision in action


Contents

What is it?

This toolkit use video as a powerful medium to express our ideas and creativity.

We provide resources to each step of your production. This steps are;

  1. To plan it!
  2. To record it!
  3. To edit!
  4. To share 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:

Media literacy basics

Transmedia storytelling basics

Why do we want to use it?

'Because'...

---and because Nowadays media literacy is a basic skill.

Media literacy is the starting point in this toolkit. So we are going to introduce some basic ideas about it:

According to the FCOM: Media Literacy is the ability to access, understand and create communications in various contexts.

There are seven competition seven areas within the European Charter of Media Literacy:

1. Effective use of technological means to access, store, retrieve and share content to find needs and individual or collective interests.
2. Access and conduct of elections informed on a wide range of media forms and contents of different cultural and institutional sources.
3. Understanding how and why media content is produced.
4. Critical analysis of the techniques, languages ​​and convecions utilitzatdes by the media and the means they agree.
5. Creative use of medium to express and communicate ideas, information and opinions.

So learnig to use video we want to promote interdisciplinarity, communitarism, to be creative, to promote basic skills like writing, reading, speaking in public, to learn technology, to get self-fullfilment.

You can also see the definition of media literacy here![1].

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.

We want to play!Let's 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.

We want to appropiate... Let'smake 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.

We want to navigate through diferent media. Let's "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.

We want to share knowledge! Let's 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 [2] -So this tool kit is made of:

We also want to use the personal video project...Lets get new media capacities!

...to connect!
...to perform!
...to simulate!
...to visualize!
...to negociate!
...to judge!

Who can use it?

What can we 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-walk

Self Portrait

Citiy Symphony

Fanfition

Remix

Short Reports

How can we make it?

What do we need?'

Dispositive

Templates

How can w use it ?

To use this toolkit you need a basic audiovisual set.

What´s else we need to know?

further readings

Freinet.

useful information

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