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TACTIC 3: VIDEO

Submitted by richard on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 17:23

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THIS TACTIC IS GOOD FOR COMMUNICATING CREATIVELY ACROSS DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND LITERACIES, AND FOR CAPTURING PEOPLE’S ATTENTION

 

EXAMPLES FROM THE VIDEO

Women & Memory Forum image
  • Animating Folklore with a Feminist Twist

Women and Memory Forum, Cairo, Egypt
Artists and advocates created a short animated video based on traditional Arabic stories re-told from a feminist perspective. The video uses animals and objects to approach gender inequality in a creative way that is also sensitive to its audience. 

 

TOOLS USED: Adobe software (Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere) to animate hand-drawn sketches scanned into the computer. 

 

LINKS TO LEARN MORE:
Women & Memory Forum website

Samidoun map image 
  • Mapping a Conflict in Real Time

Samidoun, Lebanon
During the 2006 Israel invasion, advocates collaborated to create and update maps of bombings and damage to Lebanon’s infrastructure. These maps were used for organising recovery work and advocacy efforts. 

 

TOOLS USED: Adobe Illustrator, Blogspot, Wordpress.

 

LINKS TO LEARN MORE: 
Samidoun website

Tunisian Advocates map image  
  • Putting Torture on the President's Map

Tunisian advocates with Nawaat.org
The Tunisian government blocked video sharing websites YouTube and Dailymotion to prevent people from seeing video testimonies from people who implicated the government in human rights abuses. Advocates responded by making an interactive Google Earth mashup, plotting human rights videos on a 3D map in the same location as the Presidential Palace. This also allowed people to still see the videos even though direct access to YouTube had been denied.  

 

TOOLS USED: Google Earth, Google Maps, YouTube.

 

LINKS TO LEARN MORE: 
Video map at the Nawaat.org website
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