Saturday 24th July 2010
10am-6pm Come and meet everyone and watch some films at 7pm on Friday 23rd July

Where: Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh
EH1 1EYCost: Free / donationPlaces are limited, so please fill in the application form opposite. Lack of experience is no barrier. Commitment to
making social change with video is much more important!

Video Training for Social Change

Make the news you don’t see on the news.

visionOntv has created easy
templates for rapid-turnaround citizen
video news reports.

These reports can be made by absolute beginners, or by people with skills
but little time.

Make watchable and effective films for the widest possible audience.

Our training programme is bold and unique. We have taken away the obstacles
to making effective films by radically simplifying the whole process. Come
to the workshop to learn how to make fast-turnaround video news reports. Our
production templates will enable you to make films with whatever equipment
you already possess. You can even make videos with no camera at all!

Please bring the items of portable recording equipment you have – video
camera, stills camera, mobile phone, laptop computer. We will use them
during the workshop.
Please note: to complete your productions, an extra session on Sunday
morning (in a local cafe) may be necessary.

A joint production with Undercurrents.

For full alt-TV experience install http://visionon.tv

See more here:
For all climate campers: Citizen TV Reporter Training

This is a really good resource on the future of news http://rebootnews.com

Its a mix of Journalism and technology – think understandable for non-techs. Jay Rosen NY journalism prof and Dave Winer who invented bloging and RSS.

These guys have good view into the transition that is happening.

For full alt-TV experience install http://visionon.tv

Excerpt from:
Rebooting the news

QIK is live streaming from phone to web, It has the advantage that a low quality video is then available on the Qik website (they have rss so can be used in aggregations).

* The disadvantage is that you don’t have to think – just tern on and spray wobbly-cam with verbal meandering.

For outreach journalism we prefer shoot then upload – as then you have time to review it

* BUT in an emergency – or very dramatic moment then Qik is appropriate as the video is on the web NOT ON YOUR PHONE which is a good thing if your phone is confiscated or smashed.

So 1% of time (dramatic/dangerous) Qik is useful – 99% of the time it’s better to shoot and store local on device then review and upload to push up production values.

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Excerpt from:
To Qik or not to Qik

Dave Winner

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The problem with geeks

Alternative media projects always have to fight off a strong inclination to anonymise and centralize, a tendency which really cuts against how web 2.0 social media actually works to build active communities.

It’s encouraging to see the change in the social media strategy in climatecamp. The first instinct was to centralise and anonymise – to have a unified, “single voice” of “climate camp”. Within climate camp this has now shifted organically to a position of accepting a diversity of voices, each with their own character – the “voices of climate camp”. I am constantly fighting against this initial centralising tendency, though it is really hard to beat as it is always unspoken, and to speak it out loud is somehow to be seen as bringing it into being. Obviously this isn’t true, but it is a hard dynamic to shift.

Good to see the dynamic shifting in climatecamp, towards a more clearly labeled diversity of projects.

This is happening too with Indymedia UK. It’s finally opening up to become what it was originally setup to be – a network of groups of alternative media rather than the opaque monolithic structure that it had become. The links to alternative media groups on the side bar and the Schnews articles in the central column make me hopeful of alt-media growing into a genuine network of linked/syndicated projects, where each supports the other to become a much greater force than just the sum of its parts. The first thing to do is to declare what the parts are, and then have each link to the others.

So it’s good to see this shift in IMC too. Possibility of happy days for independent media!

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Original post:
A look into/back at activist social media