Aims and objectives:
Social, personal and political issues:
–Social issues: A social issue refers to an issue that influences and is opposed by a large number of individuals within a society.
-Personal issues: A Personal problem only effects an individual person rather than a large number of people.
-Political issues: A political issue is where something is opposed due to ones political standing or beliefs.
Ethical Considerations and Awareness of sensitivities around subjects:
-Ethical Considerations: Ethical considerations are values and principles that address questions of what is good or bad in human affairs.
Examples include:
-Informed consent: The participants are fully informed about what is going on and what is going to happen after they are no longer involved in the process.
-Voluntary Participation: People participate free from coercion and are free to withdraw their participation at any time without negatively impacting on their involvement in future services or the current project.
-Do no harm: The process of production you go through must not harm the participant in any way (stress, pain, anxiety, diminishing self-esteem or invasion of privacy).
-Confidentiality: Identifying information is not made available to anyone apart from the project coordinator.
-Awareness of sensitivities around subjects: A sensitive subject is something that is difficult to talk about, whether it is because people disagree with what others think on the subject or because they have a bad experience with it themselves.
Sensitive subjects include: Suicide (and glamorisation of), mental health, age, disability, money or lack of and many more some of which we mentioned on the survey.
This is the link to our survey results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YT7Yz0klgo-o98yzF9U3Zc1M6IBENKIcteSiRA4Po4E/edit?usp=sharing
Community resources and characteristics, access issues:
Community groups and groups have little funding and as a result the majority of productions suffer due to a lower production value.
An example of this would be how lets loop because they had to come to college to find people to make them a video as it is expensive to get it done professionally.
Funding issues and opportunities for distribution and exhibition:
Due to a lack of funds many charitable organisations struggle to create and distribute promotional videos. Sites such as swindon web help to provide a platform which is cheap and easy to distribute it on.
Existing comparable work:
This video is a promotional/informative video for Girlguiding UK and from personal experience I am aware that they often have trouble making videos for many different reasons. These include: The lack of funds in the local units, controversy over whether the girls can be in videos, struggles with certain parents as to having their children on film and where will the video go who will see it.
This video is a video that helps to promote well building in central africa. It is very informative and gives you facts that would make you want to help out with or just support the charity.
This video concentrates more on people who have already donated to the charity and shows a story that they have created. The end does briefly mention what the charity does but the rest of it is pretty amusing if not informative.
Unit 31: Social action and community media production 