UK Indymedia – IMC UK Video Page
Useful guides and resources for the video activist
If you have any questions relating to video activism in general, which are not answered on this page, check out the VideoActivismFAQ.
If you are interested in making radical videos, these guides may be of some help.
- NEW Lights, Camera, Direct Action! (PDF booklet)
- i-Contact Rough Guide to Video
- i-Contact Video Activist Survival Kit
- Fiona’s Handy Camcorder Hints on Paper Tiger TV
- What You Need to Know to Make a Show
- VAN Basic Camera Tips and many more resources
- Camera Tips from the Ruckus Society
And there are even some videos that provide guides to making video. Check out www.witness.org for the Introduction to Camera Work and Video for Change, plus the Cascadia Media Collective for the Guerrilla Video Primer.
Oh yeah, don’t forget them old fashioned paper book things. The Video Activist Handbook is an essential read and can be bought from Undercurrents and various book shops etc.
If you know of other resources that we should list, please let us know.
Video Screenings
The best way to see radical video is LIVE with REAL people. Instead of sitting by yourself in front of a box, check out the IMC UK Cinema Page to find out about indymedia video screenings. You might also find out about screenings on BeyondTV or your local social centres.
If
there are no screenings happening in your area then perhaps you would
like to organise your own. Screenings are extrememly powerful, they
inform and inspire and help to bring new people into active
participation in progressive struggles. Get together with a few
friends, find a venue and put on a film screening. There are no
shortage of videos available (see below) and with the European NewsReal
coming out every month, you can be bang up-to-date.
There are a couple of online guides you might find useful if planning a screening;
- the Video Activist Network’s ‘How to do a video screening’
- the global indymedia NewsReal Screening HowTo.
- Exploding cinema DIY cinema guide
