Video tools for media educators

Visual Grammar | Video Basics | Media Literacy

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Music Rights Right Music

Most of the time when we (youngsters, youth workers) create videos there is music in it. It contributes to the atmosphere, to the dynamics of pictures, to whatever. Anyway, its something we like and we use.
Still…
There are some ethical and legal trouble with it.
The music works because it was done by someone who knows how to break your heart, cheer you up or get under your skin. These guys are so good that they make a (great and enviable) living out of it. Just like Prodigy,Madonna or Eminem. And these guys wants to get paid for their work. Its an annoying habit if you are on the other side of the counter – I agree.
Still…
I am sure you are not able to afford lawyers like they have.
For your information: if you use a song you have to pay for it and/or ask for the right of the owner of the copyright. Here is a smart article on what and how you can do:

http://www.raindance.org/site/index.php?id=46%2C731%2C0%2C0%2C1%2C0&highlight=music

AND one more thing! Some songs are so great that biliiontrillionmillions of us love it and use it. Then they are pathetic and boring at the end. Than you get yourself into a trap: i want to be unique/special/expressive with something that is spreading from all taps of the world. Huh?!

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mRhOUPn_JU&feature=related

Kriszta Zsiday

PRESS, LOOK, THINK, SHOOT, CUT, SHARE, ASK, GO, DO!

Learning by experience is our method, applied on each activity, each action taking by participants of Birth of Image. From taking pictures with an universal message in it to shooting a soap opera scene where participants are directing, acting, pressing the REC button, to documenting the reality which is surrounding them, the starting point is, always, to experience it in first place.

In every stage of the project, processes and activities from both Media-making and Personal Development are provided in order to guide participants into self awareness while expressing themselves through the creation of audiovisual material. “I look at what I do and at how I do it”: this is where Birth of Image is leading participants to look at!

DO, LOOK, INPUT, ACTION!

How do we apply audiovisual tools?

Simple: they are given to participants once they have already been into action. They do, they look at the result, they are given a tool, they go and do it again. In this way, once they have completed the assignment for the first time, participants can connect a lecture about the continuity of editing to the assignment and sort out how can the new input support them in achieving the result they want.
In other words:

Action + Input + New Action = Different Result!

What else is in the playfield in which participants can play? Big, clear and colorful charts reminding them of all the tools given during the training; music and atmosphere for individual reflection; plenary and couple sharing; feedbacks sessions; colorful papers and crayons for drawing dreams and visions; cooperation and trust building games; working teams; workshops teams; outdoor teams…just to mention few of them!