Participatory video

From Civilmedia

Participatory video is a method of shared audiovisual production. It is created through informal training in the method of narration, with a focus on independent video production by consideration of the social collective on what is possible and what is not possible with-in their own social, cultural and symbolic interactions.

Participatory video is a type of social intervention, a method for making free the communication and organisation of audiovisual material for a social group who are marginalised and who have much difficulty in being active participants in the mass media.

Participatory Video has multiple impacts; disseminating understand of technology; gives voice to anonymous creativity and narration; elaborates and spreads visions that are different, unexpected and unpublished; by the collective process of self understanding and story-telling.

Participatory Cinema is horizontal cinema – founded on the continuous flow of ideas between technical knowledge of the trainers and the needs – of expression, of narration of identity – and the fantasy of the group involved. It’s the only cinema in which the production process is the heart of the work. A process that is open and capable of jumping professional borders and triggering social micro-transformation in the community which interacts through it.