Calling for activist video trainees and volunteers!

Train to use cameras, large and small! Edit! Use DVD technology! Stream and distribute your work!

This second 8 week Workshop Series will start on Sunday February 24th at 1:00 PM at the Solidarity Center, 55 W. 17th Street, 5th floor. Workshops will coordinate with the activities of the International Action Center and Troops Out Now Coalition. Trainees will have a chance to gather footage from demonstrations, meetings and forums and will learn to edit that footage and stream it on YouTube and Facebook.

The workshops will cover video documentation, camera, editing and distribution. Work with Peoples Video network in hands-on classes and field-work in video activism. Mentoring with seasoned video activists. Final presentation to an appreciative audience. Opportunity to learn distribution to wider audiences. Our goal is to encourage you to take this course from beginning to end and to participate in Peoples Video Network on an ongoing basis.

Camera:

Workshop 1: Learning the Canon XL1 series. Focus, lighting, sound, care of equipment. Work with a team

Workshop 2: handling a small camera in action situations. Care of equipment and safeguarding footage. Coordination with field editors, camera crew

Interview technique:

Workshop 3: Lighting, sound, conducting interviews.

Field-Work: Field-work will go on throughout training and provide the raw material for viewing, editing and discussion. Learn to shoot at demonstrations and in other action situations. Shooting formal events. Working with the sound crew. Interview technique: Opportunity for independent work as well as mentoring and feedback sessions.

Viewing the raw footage:

Workshop 4: Group comments and feedback in a supportive environment.

Editing:

Workshop 5: Basics of Final Cut Pro. Beginning the editing process; using raw footage from field-work and also from archival material. Workshop 6: More basics of Final Cut Pro

Distribution:

Workshop 7: Finishing a project and exporting it. Streaming, printing, dvd making

Workshop 8: More concepts of distribution. Discussion of festivals, internet, grants

Final Workshop Presentation

Each video activist will present a sample of work to be shown at a commencement recital and festival event with invited guests.

Sign up for PVN WORKSHOPS: pvn@action-mail.org or call (212) 340-1286. Leave your name, phone number and e-mail and the best time to reach you.

To learn more about Peoples Video Network go to http://www.peoplesvideo.org. To see PVN videos on YouTube, go to http://www.youtube.com/peoplesvideo