PERSONAL EXPERIENCES with media
- role of media as a tool for group and community building
à technical equipment as a tool to make the group responsible
à forum online as a way of gathering people
à participants’ sense of honour and pride
à creation of self-confidence within the group
à feeling of unity and ownership deriving from the cooperation
à empowering the subject of the project
à favouring the participation
à giving autonomy (video making)
- providing new perspectives of the reality
à use of pine hole camera (different techniques, different conception of time, what is true? / what is false?)
à photo album as a way to remember good moments (memory)
à documentary about women as a way to go beyond stereotypes and pre-fixed concepts
à cd as a feedback for the project’s participants
à soundscape record as a way to perceive reality by sense of hearing
- communication
à movie production as a way to go beyond linguistic barriers
à online forum as a tool to facilitate the communication among participants
à skype as a means of communication (cheap, easy, essential, accessible)
à gmail as saving time tool (e.g. more people can work together at the same time on the same document)
à documentary as a chance to open up a dialogue
à documentary as a tool to give a direct voice to participants’ opinion /experience
à supporting self-expression
à documentary as a possibility to communicate with an outside audience
STRENGHTS
- image of professionalism à easier access to the participants
LIMITATIONS
- need of expertise
- time consuming (website)
- involvement of a lot of work (dvd documentation, post-production cd)
- expensive equipment
- uncomfortability in front of the technologies
- use of expensive material in contrast with the aims of the project (e.g. 2000 euros for a camera vs. food?!)
- difficult access to the participants
- high expectations for the product (compared to other projects of a high quality)
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