[Cc-webedit] Climate Camp TV embed

Tue Aug 18 12:39:28 BST 2009

Ambition is not a bad thing. Aiming high is part of making a big impact.
Don't let the failures of others before us lead us not to try.

Let me try to address your concerns. I'm sorry that you are worried, but I
don't think that you need to be.

The Climate Camp TV project has been well coordinated with the media team,
and discussed at numerous gatherings and  media group meetings.  And has had
media team people centrally involved in it's design.

The thrust of the project is most certainly about building capacity to
produce our own media. We will have our own website, built on a platform
designed and run by activists in the states (sorry, Hamish will have to tell
you more, as that's not my areas), and are building our own syndication
network, which is coordinated with existing indie media and undercurrents
networks -  the extension of that to YouTube or similar is totally up for
discussion, as it is not central to our plans.

In terms of the TV team going 'off message' well... I will try not to take
that personally. But what I can say is that we are more than happy to take
any and all input into the editorial, and will do our best to take it on
board... Maybe, as radio, you can tell me how you deal with this problem? -
given that you produce things with fast turn around or live content, do you
have a good method of ensuring that you stay on message that you might be
able to share with us so that we can adapt to our needs?

As for power, yes, power is going to be in short supply. Yes, to be clear
the TV project and the VisionOn studio are sharing the same space and
resources - the Climate Camp TV project is essentially an affinity action
collaboration between VisionOn and the Camp Video Documenting Group - so
this power provision also covers the needs of the video documenting team,
and the collection of video material from anyone on camp who wants to
contribute to the creative commons video archive (we have one computer and
one hard-drive dedicated to that purpose). We have made a great deal of
effort to minimize our power needs. We are only using lower-power
consumption laptops, rather than the power hungry macbooks that we might
otherwise edit on. We will be charging camera batteries of site, as well as
doing some of our uploading of site to minimise  our bandwidth usage as well
(the idea is upload only a small sellection of films direct from the site,
and do the rest off site).

So, as I hope you can see, we've put a lot of thought into how we can
achieve something quite impressive and exciting with minimal impact on the
resources of the camp.

I didn't not see the power request before it went off... but to the best of
my knowledge we are asking to power 5 laptops (one for the studio, one for
capturing footage to the creative commons archive, two for editing, and one
for up-load), two hard-drives (one for creative commons, other one for
documenting group), and a vision mixer (which I don't think is a heavy power
eater). This is more or less the same amount that I mentioned and was agreed
at the London gathering.

It's worth my also mentioning that one of the big challanges that I came up
against when trying to figure out how we could have a more robust video
group at this years camp was a problem of either people who had tech skills
not being willing to commit, or simply a huge lack of the right tech skills
or trained video activists. Part of what we are doing with this project is a
huge push towards training a new generation of video activists, and trying
to show that it's possible to make our own video media and broadcast it
ourselves... something that frankly hasn't happened in any coordinated way
at previous camps, which has meant that what moving images there were were
entirely in the control of the news media and driven by their agenda.
Re-taking control of the moving image is entirely what this TV project is
about.

I hope that's all clear, but I remain, of course, open to further questions
and concerns.

E

2009/8/18 iggyp imc <iggyp.imc at googlemail.com>

> Hi,
> I'm a little worried about this TV channel, as it seems to be morphing into
> a bigger and bigger beast every time i hear about it. I have seen in the
> past with other media projects associated with the camp that people aim high
> but fail to have realistic expectations.
>
> It does sound great, but we need to remember that we are a grass roots
> activist network, and that using mainstream media is something we should be
> avoiding...so i would not be happy with us using services such as youtube,
> google video etc....
>
> Also, I'm wondering how the TV crew fit in with the media team? Surely this
> has the potential to go 'off message' very badly.
>
> My other main concern is that of electricity. There are major restrictions
> and much competition for power on site this year. I've seen the amount that
> vision TV have asked for, and they are unlikely to get what they have asked
> for. Does this project include using the same space as the 'vision tv'
> people? If not, then it is even more worrying.
>
> Also, we are the Camp for Climate Action; the 'Climate Camp' is just an
> event.
>
> Thanks
> Iggy.
>
> ps : who is Simon?
>
>
> 2009/8/17 Emily James <emily at emily-james.com>
>
> Totally agree.
>>
>> I was talking to Simon about trying to make a widget that people could
>> embed on their sites, and we were thinking that the widget could care links
>> to the radio, tv, and blog... or something like that... we thought that what
>> with time being short, there might be an off the shelf widget maker
>> somewhere that could do it quite easily.
>>
>> Does any one have any ideas?
>>
>> And yes, once the Climate Camp TV site is up properly (the one with the
>> aggregator feed right now is just a place holder) the films in the main
>> channel will all be Climate Camp films, beginning with some of the films
>> from earlier camps through prep, and then the swoop, the camp...
>> workshops... etc. There will also be 4 sub-channels: from the studio, from
>> the camp, from the street, and from the hip (see attached for current
>> working document description). On these channels one might find a film about
>> an affiliated action that takes place the week of Climate Camp, but wouldn't
>> stretch to covering the 1010 launch on the 1st of September, as that has no
>> relation, and in fact scheduled itself against the camp. The other channels
>> are the stuido, docs from the day and around the camp, and an aggregator
>> which will pull everything tagged ClimateCamp09 from around the net (that
>> tag should be whatever is promoted as the media tag... but I'm not sure if
>> we've totally settled what that is yet?).
>>
>> E
>>
>> 2009/8/17 james holland <james at dogmanet.org>
>>
>> great idea to have both radio and tv as prominent as possible i think
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> James Holland
>>>
>>> http://risingclevel.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> r imc wrote:
>>>
>>>> sorry about the last email, i meant to send it as a reply to this one!!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Is it possible that the radio can get as prominent a link on the website
>>>> as the TV? We did a huge amount of work last year. it worked, and we got
>>>> loads of positive feedback.....and after all, tv is bandwidth intensive
>>>> compared to audio and is really just radio with pictures!!!!
>>>> We have a flash player that you can use, but there is also allready a
>>>> hyperactive media player available too...
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> Iggy
>>>>
>>>> 2009/8/13 richard hering <richard at visionon.tv <mailto:
>>>> richard at visionon.tv>>
>>>>
>>>>    Jonathan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    Also: is this embed URL just for climate camp specific films? The
>>>> film
>>>>    that comes up at the moment is about climate rush. When will the
>>>> first
>>>>    climate camp stuff be going up?
>>>>
>>>>    Cheers
>>>>
>>>>    This embed will be for the duration of the camps by default
>>>>    exclusively climate camp films. Down the list are all the climate
>>>>    camp films from last year.  Before the climate camp films for 2009
>>>>    roll in it makes sense to have some other relevant content to
>>>>    renovate the embed. Isn't it hard anyway to decide if something is
>>>>    "climate camp" or not. What about pixie actions etc?
>>>>    However, if you prefer, we can alter the embed so that it only shows
>>>>    a selection of films.
>>>>
>>>>    Richard
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