The seams to be a lot of this stuff going on… just finished the first draft of the climate camp policing film more of the same…
The rest is here:
Police men…
Tag: street
Protesters super-glued themselves to glass security gates inside BBC.They protested the lack of balanced reporting of the Israeli bombings on Gaza. http://www.undercurrents.org
Source:
Protesters glued inside BBC HQ
Well in the NY lets make Media work (:
Read the original here:
Seasons greetings – take care of the trees or the trees will take care of you (;
TEMPLATE for Urgent Action Alerts
Write a voice-over of 3 sentences only.
1. The situation (the news) – who, what, where
2. The background
3. What the viewer can do
Total duration of text: NOT MORE THAN 30 seconds
For more advice on writing / editing voiceover, click here.
Open any audio or video editing software, e.g.
Adobe Audition or free software Audacity and record the voice-over using a microphone in a quiet space (hiding under a duvets really useful if neaserery)
Import this track and the relevant channel music track (see downloads) into the software, and combine them.
Let the music play for 5 seconds or so before bringing the voice-over in. Let the music play out for at least 7 seconds after the voice-over stops.
Make sure the music is not too loud and that the voice can be heard clearly.
Make an mp3 of this edited soundtrack.
Open up animoto. Place your stills in the order you want them, starting with the Urgent Action Alerts graphic, and ending with an appropriate visionOntv end credit. The still before last should be the website of the campaign, which you should make in animoto text.
(You will need 7-10 still photos, in addition to the 2 visionOntv graphics at beginning and end and the website text graphic).
Mix the animation, make any adjustments (adding or removing stills or moving them around) and re-mix until you are happy. Download the result. Send us the link or email us the video so that we can check it and upload to the correct channel.
TEMPLATE for Short News Reports
As above, except for these differences:
3 sentences
1. What happened, where, to or by whom
2. Background info
3. What may happen in the future
Total voice-over duration: 30 seconds
If you have any difficulties writing the voice-over text, feel free to take it from a copyleft source such as indymedia or campaign websites.
Inside animoto, everything as above, except the first still is “visionOntv news”, and the animoto text before the final graphic is “for more info + website”
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TEMPLATE for Urgent Action Alerts
Is an outreach alt-media project – brining the simplicity of TV to the interactivity of web2
* make open source solutions and open standards useable by normal people
* using video to bring radical voices and approaches to the problems facing society
* creating communities around these solutions/approaches
* motivating/informing/networking these communities
We believe that closed corporate solutions will keep failing. So the are always spaces for open solutions to become real in the virtual world.
- people feel disempowered
- cut off from communities of like minded people
- they are swamped by information, much of it of very low quality.
Technologies
P2P – Torrents
Syndication – RSS
Video standards – H264
Open source CMS
What we need
* Hot designer who can use simplicity to create functionality
* Video content produces
* System admins for web back end and server upkeep
Why are we making a new version of MIRO
Well we started this project back in 2004 before the Democracy Player project had started; we developed our own download player app – using Azureus and an embedded media player. But this had a problem we couldn’t solve – the overly complex Sun Java installer so when Democracy Player (DP) was announced we were very excited as it was to have much the same functionality and was to be easily skinned – we thought this is fab, we could get on with video production and not worry about the tec backend.
DP took a lot longer than hoped to become stable and lost its easy skinning on route, finely we decided to search for a good programmer to do the skinning by hacking the UI code which we eventually found. Our VisionOnTV player backend is pure Miro we have only changed/added to the UI. Miro is a good app for computer savvy people – but it is less accessible for the every day TV viewer – it uses a lean forward interface and its lean back (TV) interface is lacking – we aimed to add this lean back interface so viewers can access the video content either way. In this we are adding accessibility and choice not taking it away.
Funding
At the moment we are using foundation funding, we received a small grant which has got us to were we are now. And have recently been approved for a big grant (2 years core funding) but this has taken a long time to work through the lawyers.
We aim to do ethical advertising/grassroots notice board/classified and show sponsorship for long term funding.
