This clip of David Cameron enroute to make a speech at National Council for Voluntary Organisations about "What can voluntary bodies, charities and social enterprises do to tackle Britain's social problems? This came from a roundup of examples of video blogging for ngos in UK by Miles Maier. And, of course, one can't mention the words UK and video blogging in the same sentence without pointing to David Wilcox's social reporting.
I wanted to capture these here as we prepare for the NTC Video GeekOut Session in four weeks.
I don't have time at this moment to actually do this, but I am still reflecting on the comments that Steve Garfield made at the Sunday meeting at how you improve your work by looking at it critically. You could also do the same by looking at the work of others and asking questions. Say, perhaps, to create some questions related to the production values:
- Is there passion?
- Does the video tell a compelling story? How and why?
- Is the sound quality good enough so it isn't distracting and still engages you?
- Is there emotional resonance?
- Is the editing smooth from cut to cut?
- What about the composition of shots?
Beth,
Thanks for the kind words.
I've been reading lots of stuff about the barriers (http://nten.org/blog/2007/02/13/the-myth-of-bleeding-edge-vs-basic-needs) to bringing social media into the mainstream of non-profit technology and together with your article and the Roanoke Times interactive job ad (http://nten.org/blog/2007/02/13/the-myth-of-bleeding-edge-vs-basic-needs) it made me think about doing something similar on social media tools for the blog.....perhaps it could be something like a 2 minute intro to "these are the tools we call social media or web 2.0 and if you use them they could help you to achieve XYZ". Haven’t really thought it through yet, don’t know how easy or expensive it was for full-time media professionals like the Roanoke Times to pull that ad together!
I've been using GetClicky to track my blog's analytics: http://getclicky.com/
Anybody else using this?
Miles
Posted by: Miles Maier | March 06, 2007 at 07:43 AM