Comments on: Some of the Amercian NGO’s are creating amazing multimedia

By: ciara leeming

ciara leeming — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:13:37 +0000

erm..
not 100% sure but I suspect not.
maybe just do a screen grab and link that to what i just gave you…?
i’ve never seen any of Kashi’s full pieces on the likes of Vimeo…probably because they are commercial pieces I guess.

By: Rob Godden

Rob Godden — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:35:13 +0000

Thanks Ciara, the original Niger Delta piece is even better. Ed Kashi’s photos and Brian Storm’s production work great. Is there a version on Vimeo, YouTube etc. that I can embed in my blog?

Cheers

Rob

By: Ciara

Ciara — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:38:07 +0000

Rob
if you haven’t watched the original Niger Delta multimedia piece put together by Kashi to accompany his book (Curse of the Black Gold), you should check it out here. http://www.curseoftheblackgoldbook.com/sources/frontsite/display_file.php?file=slideshow/7/NigerDelta_FINAL_forweb.mov
it’s much fuller than the Human Rights Watch piece.
I’d highly recommend checking out the book as well.

By: Rob Godden

Rob Godden — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:18:43 +0000

‘Shadows and Light’ is fantastic. The personal combined with the big picture. I would like to have seen a few photos from the ‘other end’ i.e. US motorists, oil company CEOs or Nigerian politicians just to emphasize the inequalities, but that is a minor point. Although it is not clear how the multimedia is being used, Revenue Watch clearly has an organised campaign on this issue.

Human Rights Watch has obviously been making a concerted attempt to produce good multimedia products over the last year or two. Although of a high standard (I wish Amnesty International invested in stuff like this) it is rarely linked to a mechanism for the public to take action.

Although raising awareness is good I would suggest an NGO needs to offer more than the media in its mission for social change. HRW is not a membership organisation so cannot feed this work out to national and sub-national offices and activists to use – though it could in theory be providing this to civil society partners. Most of HRW’s work is through government lobbying, so I would like to know whether these products are used in this work, and if so how? I think there is much more room for this type of visual material in government advocacy, which tends to rely on the text based research report, briefing or brochure.

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Parched in India | duckrabbit - we produce beautifully crafted multimedia — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:15:05 +0000

[...] subject is speaking English, in some cases. Ed Kashi’s Curse of the Black Gold piece – which Benjamin highlighted a few posts ago – is a great example of [...]