Guerilla Media Video Mini-Course 2008

GUERILLA MEDIA by Brad Lakritz

Click here to play movie! (117 mb)

Guerilla media is part advocacy journalism, part documentary, and part editorial. Organizations and individuals use guerilla media to engage in public dialog about important issues, to advocate action on the part of members in the community, or simply to encourage support for their work or political candidates and causes.

This was our chance to have fun, make a difference in the world, and learn filmmaking techniques all at the same time. We worked with local organizations and students and explore important topics of the day. Then we produced broadcast quality shorts.

Our week started with a brief look at guerilla media, examples of political ads and other short films. Then we looked at documentary and filmmaking techniques, and did some learning about how to write and produce a short video piece.

We quickly moved into production mode and then the post production process in MA’s Multimedia lab. Working in teams we used Final Cut Pro video editing software and other image, sound, and video editing applications to create the final videos.

By Friday we will published our own DVD and screened our videos for the community at the end of the day.

We hope you enjoy our work!

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