SARSAN
VIDEO_LAB
What
is PV (Participatory Video) ?
Participatory
video is a form of participatory
media in which a group or community creates their own film. The
idea behind this is that making a video is easy and accessible, and
is a great way of bringing people together to explore issues, voice
concerns or simply to be creative and tell stories. It is therefore
primarily about process, though high quality and accessible films
(products) can be created using these methods if that is a desired
outcome. This process can be very empowering, enabling a group or
community to take their own action to solve their own problems, and
also to communicate their needs and ideas to decision-makers and/or
other groups and communities. As such, PV can be a highly effective
tool to engage and mobilise marginalised people, and to help them to
implement their own forms of sustainable development based on local
needs.
PV?
Participatory
Video (PV) is a set of techniques to involve a group or community in
shaping and creating their own film. The idea behind this is that
making a video is easy and accessible, and is a great way of bringing
people together to explore issues, voice concerns or simply to be
creative and tell stories.This process can be very empowering, enabling a group or community to take action to solve their own problems and also to communicate their needs and ideas to decision-makers and/or other groups and communities. As such, PV can be a highly effective tool to engage and mobilize marginalized people and to help them implement their own forms of sustainable development based on local needs.
http://insightshare.org
Where
has it been developed and which projects?
My
experience comes from the production of documentaries regarding
migrant communities in Italy and from direct participation in
grassroots organizations in video making and video training
processes, in Italy, Ecuador and Colombia.
The
Sarsan experience
A
participatory video process regarding Roma children and youngsters.
Questions:
Who
am I?
How
do i see myself?
How
do others see me?
How
would I like to be seen by others?
Febbruary
2012 _ June 2012
First
part of the Sarsan videolab was focused on building a community with
the participants, girls on their teens. The group work was intended
to create a sense of belonging to a larger process of self narrating
and collaborative creativity. The goal was to encourage the
acquisition of skills on how to use video to tell simple statements,
and be familiar with this set of tools. Some of the questions asked
were: who I am, where do I come from.
The
challenging part was to make every girl participate in the process,
since some of them have very difficult learning paths and personal
situations that make it hard to come to the cultural center.
We
have gone through the first steps of video making, how to use the
video camera, creating coherent footage, telling a story with
photography and video, making interviews and how to start editing.
We
have used HD video cameras and Final Cut Pro video editing program,
in order to break the walls of technology immediately and bring the
participants closer to the instruments and possibilities of the media
we use.
Some
of the material produced was already shared during the World Urban
Forum in Naples, on september 2012, and was also socialized with the
families of the participants.
September
2012_December 2012
On
the second part of the videolab we are beginning to explore the
building of a story board for micro documentaries, based on the
fantasy and willingness of the participants.
The
self narration process on the other hand has gone a step forward: the
girls have taken the cameras to their homes and made a photo diary
describing moments of their lives in their own environment in one
day: home, school, families. We will edit and print some of this
photos as an exercise of post production.
The
participants have also learned how to make interviews, some exercised
have been made: interviews during the making of the urban communitary
garden, interviews to other youngsters at the cultural center,
interviews during a public event on Roma Rights. This material will
be edited and included in the final documentary.
CHALLENGES
Sarsan
is a project whose main challenge is to approach through creativity
the difficulties related to the Roma population in Rome and Italy,
and transform the image production that portrays the consequences of
this difficulties on a group of children and adolescents belonging to
this community.
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