Introduction

Black Action Camera
Black Action Camera
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Each community is charterized by ethos and values that are directly related to the history, population, and culture of the people who make up the community. Community projects are collective actions taken by engaged and interested community members who promote community ethos and values. However, not all community members or citizens are aware of many of the community projects in different areas, neighbourhoods, and cities. Video interviews on different community projects are a way to promote the community’s work and the values and ethos they represent through their daily offer to the community.

Successful communities share their knowledge and information on community projects and develop actions to strengthen the ethos and values of a community by focusing on social contact and cooperation between citizens, experts, and local authorities.

Task

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Smiling woman interviewing black female guest and recording video
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Community ethos and values are important elements for community building and the social cohesion of a community. Video interviews and video presentations for community projects draw more attention to a project offering important services to the community and highlights the importance of its ethos and values.

Your task as a front-line community worker is to create a video interview for a community project, e.g., a community garden collective, in your neighbourhood, area or city. The video interview must promote the services offered by the community project and describing how the project represents and promotes community ethos and values.

Your end goal is to create a video interview where the representatives of a community project of your choice, will share their stories and opinions on their project highlighting the community ethos and values promoted by their project.

Process

In the resources section under documents there are detailed instructions on how to create a video interview. You can also find valuable directions and tips with a step by a step approach provided in the videos section.

Remember as someone who works in the frontline as a community worker, you will need to use your IT and mobile technology skills to record the video. You will need to use your creativity and communication skills to cooperate with the representatives of the community project in the interview, and you will use your analytical thinking skills to create questions and bring forward projects, places and people promoting community ethos and values.

 

Conclusion

Once you have completed this module you will realize the importance of video interview process in understanding, sharing, and highlighting community ethos and values with members of your community, and the role of video interviews for the promotion of community ethos and values. You will realize that the video interview process can be used for interviewing and extracting info on the ethos and values of various and different community-based projects in your community/area.

Evaluation

Learning Objectives

  • Users will learn how to conduct, and video record a video interview with representative(s) of a community-based project in their area, to promote and highlight the services, the ethos and values the chosen project brings to the community.

Knowledge

  • Users will learn more about the video interview process and how to extract useful info for a community-based project’s ethos and values.
  • Users will understand the importance of video interview process in promoting community ethos and values.
  • Users will understand the different steps of conducting a video interview with representative(s) of a community-based project in their community/area.

Skills

  • Users will learn how to implement steps and methods and organize a video interview focused on promoting community values and ethos of a chosen community-based project.
  • Users will learn to recognize the different techniques and technical ways to record and conduct a video interview.

Attitude

  • Users will learn to appreciate video interview process process in highlighting community ethos and values and their importance for cohesion and community building.
  • Users will change their attitude towards video interview process and will use it for understanding, extracting info, sharing, and highlighting community values and ethos in different community-based projects in their community.

Resources

Click each section below to see all resources available.

Videos

Shoot Professional Videos with an Android Smartphone - COMPLETE Guide!
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