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Format, Frame Size and More: Digital Video Basics for Activists
We're launching a new video in our series for activists on video archiving and preservation, which covers digital video basics including file formats, encoding, and more.
Yvonne Ng
October 15, 2014
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Tips for Citizens Documenting Hong Kong’s Protests
WITNESS shares tips for citizens about how to more safely and effectively use video to document Hong Kong's protests.
Jackie Zammuto
October 2, 2014
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Video as Evidence: Turning Citizen Video into Justice
Citizen video rarely meets the high bar set for video as evidence. A new guide from WITNESS aims to help.
WITNESS
October 2, 2014
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What Activists Need to Know About Video Archiving and Preservation
Advocacy campaigns can take time to achieve results, so it’s important that your videos remain available after they are filmed. A new video series from WITNESS shares tips with activists about video archiving and preservation.
Yvonne Ng
October 1, 2014
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The Power of Citizen Witnesses – and How WITNESS is Strengthening Their Impact
From creation, sharing, management of your video, to preservation and usage, and with an eye to the ethical questions, WITNESS is thinking holistically about how best to support the millions of citizen witnesses to human rights abuse.
Sam Gregory
September 23, 2014
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Activists Documenting Gender-Based Violence in South Africa Face Challenges
A WITNESS training shares approaches to ethical filming of survivors of gender-based violence and discusses challenges faced by activists in South Africa.
Sara Federlein
September 12, 2014
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Now in Arabic: WITNESS Guide to Interviewing Survivors of Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Now available in Arabic, our guide for ethically interviewing survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
WITNESS
September 12, 2014
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دليل المقابلات مع الناجين من العنف الجنسي والعنف القائم على نوع الجنس
دليل المقابلات مع الناجين من العنف الجنسي والعنف القائم على نوع الجنس
WITNESS
September 11, 2014
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#Instagood Tips for Nonprofits
#Instagood tips for nonprofits will help you start and manage an instagram account to be part of your organization's online storytelling goals.
WITNESS
July 17, 2014
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Stopping Bulldozers: Fighting Forced Evictions with Video
From citizen journalists in India to audiovisual artists in Colombia, people are using WITNESS resources to strengthen their grassroots work in the fight against forced evictions and to empower more to get involved.
WITNESS
June 20, 2014
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“Listen” to How Radio Can Improve Your Videos
Strategist Will Coley shares lessons from radio producers about what makes their work so compelling and translates them into tips for video and filmmakers.
WITNESS
June 12, 2014
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Recommended Summer Reading List for Social Media Managers
In order to stay relevant social media managers need to continually research and educate themselves about communication technologies, the design of tools/graphics, why people share, visual communication, storytelling and more.
WITNESS
June 5, 2014
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Anatomy of a Google Hangout On Air
A list of tools, tips, and roles on host a successful Google Hangout On Air from a WITNESS digital producer.
WITNESS
May 21, 2014
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Verifying Citizen Video: A Case Study from Aleppo – Part 2, Creating a Panoramic Image
In part two of our three-part series, we cover how to create a panoramic image from video stills to reveal signifiers unique to the site and event depicted in the video.
WITNESS
January 8, 2014
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Verifying Citizen Video: A Case Study of Destruction from Aleppo
The first in a three-part series investigates how to identify a citizen video for verification. The case study uses a citizen video example taken in Aleppo, Syria.
WITNESS
January 7, 2014
