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Video Activist Resources

VAN Resources

  1. Basic Video Camera Tips
  2. Manual De Tips Para Camaras De Video
  3. Watching the Police
  4. A Few Tips from Copwatch
  5. Videotaping at Critical Mass
  6. Videographer Checklist
  7. Interview Tips
  8. Brief Introduction to Video Editing
  9. Video Editing and Working With Editors
  10. Video Distribution
  11. Legal Resources
  12. Sample Contract / Footage License
  13. How to Do a Video Screening
  14. SFPD General Order - The Rights of Onlookers

Other Resources

    VIDEO

  1. "Guerrilla Video Primer" by Cascadia Media Collective
  2. "Video Activist Handbook" by Thomas Harding of Undercurrents
  3. Produce a Segment for "Indymedia"
  4. Paper Tiger TV's "How To" Resources for Video Activists
  5. I-Contact's Video Activist Survival Kit
  6. Bay Area Video Coalition's Glossary of Terms
  7. GEN ART's Filmmaker Resource Guide Corporate-sponsored, but some good content
  8. Bay Area Film & Video Entities
  9. Filmmaking.net (free site, some advertising)
  10. Witness Human Rights Witnessing Training Manuals. Introduction and Strategy.
  11. OneWorld TV's guide to uploading video to the internet.
  12. FTAA Activist Resources - Video Camera Tips

    13. OTHER MEDIA

  13. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's (FAIR) Media Activist Kit
  14. Guerrillamedia's Do-It-Yourself (DIY) media tools
  15. Media Access Project's list of "official" electronic media and telecommunications sites
  16. Openness .Org keep public records open / use scanners
  17. The Ruckus Society's Media Manual for Activists
  18. The Ruckus Society's Activist Tech Camp with an Intro to Independent Media Workshop
  19. General Media Outreach Strategy for Activists by Saul Chernos
  20. Electronic Intifada's Media Activism Advice
  21. Community Media Workshop's guide to writing Press Releases
  22. RAN's Activist Toolbox
  23. Activists Guide to Exploiting the Media at urban75.com
  24. Media Monopoly Chart by Media Space
  25. Grade The News!
  26. Alberta, Canada's Indymedia Tech Help Guide
  27. An Activists Guide to Exploiting the Media bby George Monbiot
  28. Community LAN Revolution Website explains in plain language how to create a community network using 802.11b wireless.
  29. Do-It-Yourself Super 8 Film
  30. Jobs in the media arts field? Start with: NAMAC, BAVC, AIVF and FAF