How to record your video clip

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Below we provide simple instruction on how to record video clips.

Participants and mentors alike are required to record video clips during the project.

Video clip technical characteristics

  • Short video clip, 2 min max
  • Hold camera in landscape (horizontally)
  • Make sure camera is stable/fixed
  • Speak LOUD AND CLEAR
  • Do not look straight at the camera, but 1-2 feet away (keep your eyes focused to that location like you are talking to someone

Record at your home or office space with rich background; no worries about tidiness or irrelevant objects in the back. It adds to the value

Your Audience

Remember that your clip is very valuable. If you are a potential Mentor, at least 1000 participants of the Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era structured democratic dialogues will have to view it. Many will view it in their effort to choose their mentor. Others will be required to view it just before coming to a dialogue.

If you are a participant, your video clips is what will remain from your ideas. You want them to be lively and understandbale. Other participants will view them in the context mof the project. But also your friends and many other people interested in your ideas will view them later. Therefore, when you prepare the clips, make sure they are sharp, thge sound is good and you speak load and clear.


The content for Mentors

Participants will view the clip mainly BEFORE they join, but also later during the process (upon requests from their mentors).

  • Include (not necessarily at the start) something about you and your work
  • What is your key advice to them?
  • Do you have a message or an idea to convey to them?
  • Be inspirational
  • Base your message on your life's experience
  • Ideally, you should ground your contribution to some systems thinking
  • Please use simple language that everyone can understand

In case you have multiple messages, send more than one clip.

REMEMBER, BE NATURAL, DO NOT OVER DO IT AND DO NOT STRESS OUT. IT IS ONLY YOUR NATURAL IDEAS ON TAPE TO SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS.

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