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Lights, Camera, Direct Action! - Video Activist Handbook

richarddirecttv | 02.09.2004 15:17 | London | Oxford

A brief guide to making good activist videos.

Generic media Lights, Camera, Direct Action! - application/pdf 153K


For all those to whom I have promised this handbook in the past few months, well, here it is!

richarddirecttv
- e-mail: richarddirecttv@yahoo.co.uk

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I, for one, am impressed

02.09.2004 16:29

More of this kind of thing wanted.

SXB

already uploaded - see video projects page

02.09.2004 17:34

richards upload of the booklet seems to have failed but the file is already available and linked to from the video projects page  https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/video.html

ben

Wow!

03.09.2004 01:52

Thanks a lot Richard! this is really cool! it will be very useful for many people for sure, including me indeed!!! ;-)

sociétélibre

Upload fixed

03.09.2004 08:59

Really good tutorial, thanks Richard!

spanner

Budding film-makers - another recommendation

05.09.2004 11:55

Worth checking out also for budding filmmakers is James Monacco's 'How To Read A Film' which
is now on CD-ROM. It deconstructs movie making techniques e.g camera angles, lighting, narrative, ideological constructs etc.

A PDF version is available at  http://www.readfilm.com/HTRbook.html

Please will people read it and think about editing as I have had the misfortune to sit through hours of tedious ill-edited activist footage through the years that has had no narrative logic etc etc. ( OK I still love hardcore italian and Greek riotporn )

My other tip - back up your master edit copy, show reel etc. and don't trust anyone to wander off with it just for 'a look'. The alternative may just put you off film-making...

mark r pen

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