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Project Description
The intention is to create Global Voices own videos through agreements with small independent video producers (individuals and organizations) in Spanish speaking countries. So these producers would be in charge of creating audiovisual material per request (Us specifying the subject and other requirements for the video). The videos would be produced fortnightly (each time in a different country) as a base for GV articles. Articles that will be especially written by our authors from those countries. Thus, our content will be dynamized and will feed our YouTube channel in order to enrich its image and attract new audiences. Furthermore, to attract people interested in video production, a citizen video contest will be held during the project.

New update on the video project

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Hi! once again a long time without updating you on our project. But better late than never..

Video for Change and Video Activo Awards Ceremony.

Video for Change and Video Activo Awards Ceremony.

We have now online 4 videos specially created for the project, and a contest running, well, in reality coming to an end… the awards ceremony (yes we will have one!) will be this saturday Sep, 7, as a part of the Video for Change event in Mexico DF. Thanks to our friends of SocialTic for hosting us!

After the competition has finished we will resume coordinations to have new videos for the project. We are interested in videos from Chile, Paraguay, Nicaragua, countries where we have had no participation at all. But also from Argentina, Venezuela and Uruguay, whose involvement has been minimum.

These days have been very active in our facebook page, where people are voting for their favourite video on the contest. The video that collects more likes, will have a special prize, consisting of a kit of books on info-activism, courtesy, again, from our friends of SocialTic.

You can vote too, just click in this photo album and take a look to the participating videos. Each photo has a link to the video so you can see all the videos from there.

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Update on the video project

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With the appropriate apologies for not updating in months on this project, let me inform you. The most striking is that our first video has already been published, with English subtitles and everything, and it was part of a post on Global Voices in Spanish: Colombia: The “Lleras Law” and Content Creation

We are also pleased to announce that we have a blog: VideoActivo, where we are starting to post on topics related to video, such as advices, tips, contests and of course, our own videos also have a place there.

Additionally, we have created a YouTube channel, a Twitter account and a Facebook page. With all these tools we hope to bring together a community of people working with video in the region. More soon!

Actualización sobre el proyecto de videos

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Con las disculpas del caso por no haber actualizado en meses acerca de este proyecto, paso a informarles. Lo más saltante es que nuestro primer video ya fue publicado, con subtítulos en inglés y todo, y fue parte de un post de Global Voices en español: Colombia: La Ley Lleras y la creación de contenido.

También nos place comunicarles que ya tenemos blog: VideoActivo, donde estamos empezando a postear sobre temas relacionados al video, tales como consejos, tips, convocatorias a concursos y claro, nuestros propios videos también tienen un lugar ahí.

Adicionalmente hemos creado un canal en YouTube, una cuenta en Twitter y una página en Facebook. Con todas estas herramientas esperamos reunir una comunidad de gente que trabaje con el video en la región.

Global Voices y su nuevo proyecto de videos

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El abaratamiento de las cámaras de video, la ubicuidad de las mismas en otros tipos de dispositivos (celulares, cámaras fotográficas), el incremento de sus capacidades y la simplificación de su manejo, la cada vez mayor penetración de internet y con el la difusión de las plataformas para compartir contenido, han masificado el uso del video a niveles que resultan asombrosos según los estándares de hace pocos años. YouTube anunció hace poco que cada segundo se sube una hora de contenido a sus servidores.

Aunque es obvio que no todos los videos subidos nos interesan a todos, incluso la porción que nos interesa representa tal cantidad de horas de video que probablemente nunca terminaríamos de verla. Así pues el concepto de curación de contenidos aplicado al video se hace más que necesario.

Es por esto que ya desde hace buen tiempo en Global Voices nos hemos preocupado por seleccionar el mejor contenido en lo que corresponde a video ciudadano, no sólo de las noticias y eventos de actualidad, si no de diversos temas que vale la pena rescatar.

Sin embargo, el problema con esta gran cantidad de contenido no es sólo para el consumidor, también lo es para el productor.

Teniendo en cuenta esto GV ha decidido adentrarse un poco más en el mundo del video y, promover, apoyar y difundir la producción audiovisual. Para lograrlo ponemos a disposición de la comunidad videoblogger hispanohablante nuestro sitio web donde vuestros videos podrán ser parte de alguno de nuestros artículos, o incluso generar un artículo!

También ponemos a disposición de la comunidad este blog, donde intentaremos postear sobre temas que tengan que ver con las distintas fases de la creación de videos, así como el uso o aplicación que se puede dar a esta herramienta. Aquellos que quieran aportar con artículos serán gratamente bienvenidos.

Project proposal: GV – Filming our posts

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1. Full name
Juan Arellano Valdivia
2. Global Voices sections to which you contribute
Lingua
3. Publication date of your latest post or translation
Date: – 24/1/2012
4. Title of project
GV – Filming our posts
5. Project representative (person who will sign award agreement and receive funds)
Juan Arellano Valdivia
6. Describe the proposed project as clearly as possible in five sentences or less
The intention is to create Global Voices own videos through agreements with small independent video producers (individuals and organizations) in Spanish speaking countries. So these producers would be in charge of creating audiovisual material per request (Us specifying the subject and other requirements for the video). The videos would be produced fortnightly (each time in a different country) as a base for GV articles. Articles that will be especially written by our authors from those countries. Thus, our content will be dynamized and will feed our YouTube channel in order to enrich its image and attract new audiences. Furthermore, to attract people interested in video production, a citizen video contest will be held during the project.
7. What aspect or need of Global Voices does your project address?
The project covers GV’s lack of own audiovisual material that would facilitate using the whole potential video has in informing and spreading content through platforms such as Youtube.
8. How would the project further Global Voices’ mission?
The process of creating and publishing own video material through the alliance of Global Voces and video producers allows to include citizens’ voices from unrepresented communities or sectors on (and off) the internet and record their opinions about a specific matter, differently from the text.
9. What is innovative about your project?
The innovative part lies with the combination of already existing Concepts, such as viralization power via Youtube, the collaborative associations between Global Voices and other institutions, and the ability Global Voices has to write articles based on citizen contents. This merge of elements hasn’t been previously tested on Global Voices and it is innovative as it allows to provide a renewed image to the public we already have, and to bring more individuals and collaborators to our network.
10. Which section of Global Voices would your project most benefit (if applicable)?
GV in English
Lingua
11. How would the wider GV community utilize and/or participate in your project?
The idea of the project can be replicated on other sites of Global Voices, and so the whole community can be involved and also contribuye with the sustainability and its continuance in time, sharing the produced videos and proposing alliances with other smaill video producters. If this proposal is chosen, at the end of its period I will publish a Guide with its procedures and experiences as a way to help duplicate it in others GV sites, and to stablish a long term plan.
12. List the other GV community members, if any, who will be actively working on the project. Please specify what role each person will play in the development of the project.
Cati Restrepo – Be aware of topics that are generating discussion in Spanish speaking countries. – Coordinate with video producers the making of the videos (topic, duration, deadlines submitting the video to Global Voices). – Collaborate with broadcasting the video once it’s been published.
13. What additional resources or expertise, if any, would you need to complete the project?
– The networks of GV Latam-team – Alliances with institutions such as Flickr or Vimeo for a video competition that would be created during the project.
14. Describe the prospects for sustainability/continuation once the innovation grant funding ends
To assure the project will keep on going, during the project a video competition will be promoted, that will allow to add to our network small independent video producers (organizations and individuals as well) that are not participanting in the project’s first part, besides that we could present our videos in audiovisual competitions. Besides that, the production of new videos might be possible through alliances with Communication schools.
15. Please specify the timeline for the project, from start to finish
Ten months. Fortnightly publication. Every fortnight, a different country and topic. By the fifth month, a competition will be held for new independent producers.
16. Provide a detailed budget of up to US$5,000 for project costs. (Please try and present as accurate a budget as possible: applicants are encouraged to submit budgets for less than the maximum amount as smaller grants allow us to fund more projects)
Human resources. – Coordinator: US $100 per month (Total US $1000) – Assistant coordinator: US $500 (unique payment) – Video producer: US $150 per video (Total US$ 3000) – Competition prize: US $500

GV – Filming our posts

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My proposal is referred to how to increase our presence and use of video.

The intention is to create  Global Voices own videos through agreements with small independent video producers (individuals and organizations) in Spanish speaking countries. So these producers would be in charge of creating audiovisual material per request (Us specifying the subject and other requirements for the video).

The process of creating and publishing own video material through the alliance of Global Voces and video producers allows to include citizens’ voices from unrepresented communities or sectors on (and off) the internet and record their opinions about a specific matter, differently from the text.

The videos would be produced fortnightly (each time in a different country) as a base for GV articles. Articles that will be especially written by our authors from those countries.

Thus, our content will be dynamized and will feed our YouTube channel in order to enrich its image and attract new audiences.

Furthermore, to attract people interested in video production, a citizen video contest will be held during the project.

The project covers GV’s lack of own audiovisual material that would facilitate using  the whole potential video has in informing and spreading content through platforms such as Youtube.

The idea of the project can be replicated on other sites of Global Voices, and so the whole community can be involved and also contribuye with the sustainability and its continuance in time, sharing the produced videos and proposing alliances with other smaill video producters.

If this proposal is chosen, at the end of its period I will publish a Guide with its procedures and experiences as a way to help duplicate it in others GV sites, and to stablish a long term plan.