I’m no expert really (note lack of videos by me on this site!), but I am quite a good researcher and this post should serve as a decent sign-posting intro to good video blogging tips and tools

This is the best all round guide I know of:
http://makeinternettv.org/

Another useful resource is:
http://www.ourvideo.org/

Some free software projects worth investigating:
http://blog.plumi.org/ (plone)
http://plone4artists.org/ (plone)
https://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge (drupal)
http://showinabox.tv/ (wordpress)

Networks to get involved with/ places to find people to help:
http://transmission.cc/
https://shootingpeople.org/

http://mandy.com/

Places to upload your videos:
http://www.vimeo.com/
http://blip.tv/
(those are the two most film maker people I know use)
(one of them lets you automatically add them to http://www.archive.org
which is a good idea)
(and, of course, you should upload to youtube too – where the biggest
audience is)

http://qik.com is cool because it always people to send video to the web straight from their phones http://bestbefore.tv/2008/11/videoboo-simple-video-upload/ does a similar thing to qik but is on your computer and lets people interview
themselves which is pretty nifty.

My two favourite online video shows:
http://peakmoment.tv/
http://submedia.tv/

A cross of those shows would be absolutely fantastic (i.e. the postive
content of Peak Moment in the edgy and funny style of SubMedia)

And my friend Vinay’s take on How Not To Do Video:
http://blip.tv/file/1685403

See also these docs:
how_to_make_good_activist_videos.pdf
video-activism-resources.rtf

And perhaps check out these books:

[amtap book:isbn=0745317707]
[amtap book:isbn=0470037881]
[amtap book:isbn=0745324126]
[amtap book:isbn=0240808312]
[amtap book:isbn=0240810295]
[amtap book:isbn=0321429176]
[amtap book:isbn=0471971774]
[amtap book:isbn=0240809351]

What have I missed?

PS thanks to Viv Gooding (who ran the build of Ben Law’s house, incidentally) for asking me about this stuff whilst I was at Embercombe (the text above is basically an e-mail I sent him), and to tav too (his recent post on becoming a film maker prompted me to whack this info up here )

This documentary from the BBC is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen on TV for a long time. Highly recommended.

Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.

With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family’s wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year’s high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is.

Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future. (from BBC)

An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film also delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in America’s mass consumerism and Big-Box Culture. From the humble beginnings of preaching at his portable pulpit on New York City subways, to having a congregation of thousands – Bill Talen (aka Rev. Billy) has become the leader of not just a church, but a national movement.

This very long (215 minutes) money documentary has lots of interesting history in it about the battle over the control of money and banking in the US. If I remember rightly the presenter proposes going back to the gold standard, but whilst that might be better than what we’ve got now, it doesn’t really make much sense either (as nicely explained in Money as Debt)

“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole…Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world’s money…” THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned “central” bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers.”

Another documentary about the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.

This is the amazing story of how a small island nation resisted against the might of corporate globalization and won. Bougainville, with a populations of only 160,000 has managed to close and keep closed one of the biggest mines in the world. They have held their ground for a decade with antique weapons and homemade guns. These people have taken on the biggest mining company in the world and won. Ripped from the DVD “Indigenous Resistance in New Guinea” made by Solidarity South Pacific: www.eco-action.org/ssp – respect!

This is one of the best peak oil movies. A must see documentary.

As I’ve said before, The Take is one of the best films I’ve seen.

We’re screening it at 7.30pm on Saturday December 15th @ Sessions of Spontaneity

Watch the trailer now:

And watch the whole thing!

(NOTE: although much if not most of the film above is in English there are no subtitles on the spanish bits)

UPDATE: CHANGE OF VENUE

(licensing issues have forced us to move from Passing Clouds to Where?House – see map at bottom of page)

United Diversity presents…SESSIONS OF SPONTANEITY
@ Where?House, Unit 3c, Millmead Ind Estate, Millmead Road, London N17 9QU
Saturday 15th December, 2007
9pm – 4am. £5 before 10pm then £7.

Loads of amazing live acts, inspirational film and more! FILM (starts 9.00pm) : “THE TAKE – Occupy. Resist. Produce” must see documentary about Argentina’s radical co-operative movement in the aftermath of economic collapse. THEN load of bands, acoustic music and poetry with: Sarah Bear, Daisy, Kids of Horses, The Impossible, International Love Collective, a big jam sesson, then DJ Paula Daunt on the decks.

This is going to be an very magical night.

We’ve not done an event since Another World is Blossoming back in March 2006.

This time we see the return or our legendary Sessions of Spontaneity events from our early days and boy do we have a special line-up for you.

Doors open at 7pm and the night kicks off at 7.30pm with a screening of the must-see film, THE TAKE about Argentina’s radical co-operative movement in the aftermath of economic collapse.

After the film, the musical magic begins; loads of great acts playing songs to lift your mind, body and spirit.

Confirmed live acts include: The Impossible, International Love Collective, Sarah Bear, Daisy, Kids of Horses, Mr Hovis, plus DJ Paula Daunt on the decks.

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The Take: Occupy. Resist. Produce.
One of the best films I’ve seen. It tells the story of Argentina’s radical co-operative movement in the aftermath of economic collapse.

Then:

Acoustic music and poetry from London’s finest…

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Sarah Bear

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Daisy

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Kids of Horses,

Followed by:

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The Impossible
Formed out of psychedelic cacophony, copious amounts of mind altering drugs and hours in an oxygen starved studio in darkest Camberwell before being filtered through the Caribbean…. the Impossible grow more powerful and seductive every day.

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International Love Collective
An unmissable 17-piece extravaganza. Their tripped out sexy performances are like a drug-fuelled 60s orgy to the tune of cutting edge funk and jazz. Read a great review here.

and more!

Then a great big Jam Session

And Finally:

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DJ Paula Daunt on the decks
Paula’s got it all. Phat beats, tripped out breaks and Brazilian rhythm and beauty. You will not resist the urge to dance with this lady on the decks. Hard drum and bass galore and more.

All this for only £5 before 10pm, then £7!

Where?House
Unit 3c, Millmead Ind Estate
Millmead Road, London N17 9QU

Map:

(see this event on Facebook and MySpace)

A documentary about the Zapatista movement in Mexico made by Big Noise Films