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week three :: production roles

Pascale Ghazaly — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:24:56 +0000

Role Production - Asian Film Academy

we are all collaborating in groups on projects for the remaining days of the workshop. since we have to plan + schedule it helps to have an idea of what roles each of us will play on the project. here is a breakdown of some production roles and generally what each does during pre-production, production, post production and distribution… feel free to add duties as you gain experience in each phase of production.

we are low budget so each person may fill 2 or 3 or even 4 roles in a project. For instance: i may be the production assistant during pre-production but then lighting during production and editor in post production. also some roles can be combined: set design, props, costumes, makeup and script supervisor can be the same person….

since this is a feminist project and everyone is learning something new in making a video remember to plan for switching roles so that everyone has a chance to use the camera, set the lights, think about sound and participate in editing.

next steps::
plan how your production team will work — keep in mind who will do what and keep rotating responsibilities.

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مقياس حرية المجتمع هو حرية المرأة: ما حصل لنساء مصر في الثامن من اذار

Lamia Moghnie — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:55:00 +0000

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فى ميدان التحرير أسقطنا نظام مبارك، و تعلمنا كل ما هو إيجابي في مناهضة الديكتاتورية والقمع، لذلك قررت الكثيرات من الناشطات النسويات فى مصر أن يسقطن التمييز والتخلّف، والثقافة المتعفنة التى ما زالت تفرق بين الرجل و المرأة و تعتبر كل قضية تدافع عن المرأة نكتة تستحق الوقوع من الضحك عند سماعها…

اجتمعنا نساءً و رجالاً فى ميدان التحرير فى اليوم العالمى للمرأة ،متحمسين ومتحمسات كالعادة، أعمارنا متفاوتة بين أساتذة جامعة و كاتبات إعلامين وإعلاميات وطلاب وطالبات .ونظمنا شعاراتنا والبهجة تملأ قلوبنا بالرغم من قلة عددنا الذى لم يتخطى مائتى متظاهر/متظاهرة فى بداية الوقفة. كانت شعاراتنا “عندى أب و أم، عايزة رئيس او رئيسة“، “صاحب بالين كداب و جوز أربعة منافق” و غيرها. كان هدفنا الأساسى هو “مشاركة المرأة فى المستقبل الدستورى و القانونى و السياسى لمصر“..

كنت أحمل لافتة مكتوب عليها “مقياس حرية المجتمع هو حرية المرأة“ عندما فاجأتنى سيدة أربعينية و هى تقول “أنتم عايزين تخربوها أكتر،هي الرجالة عارفة تمسك عشان النسوان تمسك!!!”،هكذا قالت تلك السيدة و ذهبت وتركتنى ألعن هذا المجتمع الذى زرع بذرة الجهل فى عقلها. لاحظ أصدقائى غضبى وهم كانوا يشاركونني فيه لتعرضهم إلى مواقف مشابهة ، كنا بدأنا نغنى “كورال” بمطالبنا، و كان عددنا في تضاعف،

ولكن لم يتركنا المتعفنين لنهنأ. لا نعرف من أين أتى هذا الشيخ الذى أخذ يسبّنا و يكفّرنا،أخذ يردد و حوله مجموعة من الرجال ” أنتم كفرة، دة ربنا قال صوت المرأة عورة،و أنتم فرحانين قوى بنفسكم و نازلين تتظاهروا“، تكفل أحدنا بالرد بالمنطق و نفى أن ما يقوله لا علاقة له بالدين،و كنا نعلم تماماً أن النقاش مع شخص سلفى لن يؤتى بنتيجة،فأكملنا الهتاف بمطالبنا، و تلك اللحظة كانت بداية أسوأ ساعة مرت فى حياتى، حيث تخلل داخلنا الكثير من البلطجية و أدوا دورهم من التحرش الجنسى و قطع اللافتات، تعرضنا إلى التحرش الجنسى فى مظاهرة أحد مطالبها هو قوانين صارمة ضد التحرش!!

بينما كان تقف مجموعة من الرجال يتخللهم الكثير من السلفيين والمتشددين دينياً ينعتوننا بأقذر الشتائم، و يرددون “باطل،اطلعوا برا،روحوا على المطبخ” و بين تبجحهم و ثقافتهم الدنيئة كانوا يرددون ” الشعب يريد إسقاط النسوان“!!

أحد هؤلاء الرجال كان ذو لحية قبيحة ، اعترض طريق فتاة قائلاً “كمان مسيحية و مرة! بتطالبى بإيه يا ******”! تعاملت معة الفتاة بشجاعة حتى تدخل صديق عندما بدأ هذا الرجل بالتبجح وقال بلغة منحدرة جداً إنه يريد أن يمارس معها الجنس و إنه يستطيع أن يعرّيها هنا فى الميدان!

هذ الرجل هو نتاج مجتمع متعفن، حكم أنها مسيحية فقط لعدم ارتدائها الحجاب،و عبّر عن وجهة نظره بأنّ المرأة لا مكان لها إلاّ السرير…

و الغريب جداً أنّ هؤلاء الرجال يعتقدون أنّ هذا حقهم و يبررونه بالدين، لا أعرف كيف أمنت عقلية بهذا العته!!

هكذا تعرضنا إلى التحرش،الضرب،السب فى يوم المرأة العالمي،حتى أصدقاءنا الرجال تعرضوا إلى السب بأنهم ليسوا رجالاً..

الرجال الذين شاركونا هم أفضل شباب فى مصر،شباب تمكنوا من التحرر من تقاليد المجتمع و القيود العقلية و النفسية التي يزرعها أهالينا داخلنا!

حدث فى طهران،فى مظاهرة ضد الحجاب، 8 مارس 1979 ،شىء مشابه لما حدث لنا فى 8 مارس 2011…شىء محبط إلى أقصى درجة أن نرى هذا يحدث فى مصر بعد ثلاثين عاماً من حدوثه فى إيران.

فى صباح 8 مارس، كنت أكتب مقالاً لأحتفل بهذا اليوم المميز و كنت أريد أن أتممه بنماذج ومواقف مبهجة من مظاهرة المرأة، ولكن هذا ما حدث فلم أستطع أن أعود إلى تلك الحالة من البهجة…

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WRITER’S RETREAT

Pascale Ghazaly — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Sara Emiline AbuGhazal

WRITER’S RETREAT

A Call for application

July 30- August 1st 2010

Broumana

SAWTALNISWA Calls forth feminist women writers to take part in a writers’ retreat to discuss and write about many topics relevant to women, feminism and the process of writing.

The retreat will provide a space where the Niswa at SAWT will create a learning process about writing, language and identity.

The topics of the retreat will explore the what it means to be a woman who writes, and they will reflect on issues such the importance of our writing in the larger feminist context, questioning our writing as post-colonial agents, online writing and making peace with our language.

The retreat, as we imagine it, is going to be a challenging journey for us as women to speak about an intimate form of documenting our lives, thoughts and reflections. We want to walk through it together, understanding and unfolding the relationship we have with the language, since it is one of the essential tools in our emancipation.

If you are up for the challenge, drop us a line about yourself, the genre(s) of writing you write in most, and why you want attend the retreat.

Once the writers are selected, we will share the location and the schedule details.

A contribution of any amount (between 2,000 to 20,000) is welcome to cover transportation, meals and other logistical needs.

Deadline for applying is 28th of July.

Write us at:

Editor@sawtalniswa.com

Best Regards

Al NISWA

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Racism In Lebanon

Pascale Ghazaly — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:00:00 +0000

The video was made by Rouba Boushnak and Rabih Hojaij during the video workshop organized by Sawtalniswa 2010.

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Ghayri 3adtik Bitzeed S3adtik غيري عادتك، بتزيد سعادتك

Pascale Ghazaly — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:00:00 +0000

A promotion video for Nasawiya’s training program “Ghayri 3adtik Bitzeed S3adtik“. The video was made by Joelle Hatem and Abdallah Nasser during the video workshop organized by Sawt Al Niswa 2010.

Joelle Hatem

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week three :: interviews + production

Pascale Ghazaly — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:00:00 +0000

after our workshop on audio + lighting everyone set out to gather short interviews around our common themes…

these could be street interviews with total strangers

SAWT video workshop :: interview :: Palestinian Rights 01 from k lynch on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/13108186

SAWT video workshop :: interviews :: Palestinian Rights 02 from k lynch on Vimeo.

Tamara + Safia interview participants of the Palestinian Rights March in Beirut on June 27, 2010.

Tamara + Safia armed with a shotgun mic get on the street interviews with participants of the Palestinian Rights Rally and March in Beirut from the Sports City Stadium to the Parliament on Sunday, June 27, 2010.

SAWT video workshop :: interviews :: Palestinian Rights 02 from k lynch on Vimeo.

SAWT video workshop :: interview :: Palestinian Rights 01 from k lynch on Vimeo.

Tamara + Safia interview participants of the Palestinian Rights March in Beirut on June 27, 2010.

formal interviews where you know your subject

or you become your subject

everyone came back with some outtakes + some great material, interesting experiences, and all the interviews demonstrated creativity + quick thinking in the field.

This week is also the beginning of finding collaborators, making working groups and moving forward on projects. Each group will spend the remaining workshop time developing, shooting, editing, and presenting a short video project of their own.

next steps::

pre production and…

shooting shooting shooting

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week two :: day 3 :: PSAs and project pitches

Azadeh Faramarziha — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:00:42 +0000

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we had a great session.

in our second session, 3 groups completed 30-60second Public Service Announcements or How To Videos. In this session, we looked at them together and gave each other feedback on : the message/concept; role of visual, audio, and text elements; different shots; planning and execution. Each group shared their experiences making the videos both how they produced them and their collaborations.

Then we broke up into pairs — producer/director. Each pair developed one sentence pitches of 2 project ideas and then presented them to the group. Here are a few of the projects on the table :

“I’m Lebanese, you’re not… but it’s not racism”

this piece would expose common expressions that Lebanese use to other Palestinians, foreign nationals, Blacks, and ethnic minorities living and working in Lebanon. It will use humor and real life situations in a short video.

“Join us in the fight for women’s rights.”

This video will use positive images of successful women to describe women’s contributions to society.

“Grab your happiness with your own hand — abuse is not an option.”

This video will confront and break the silence on domestic and intimate partner co-dependency, abuse, and violence.

“There are heroes among us.”

this video will bring visibility to the contribution of civil workers to and portray them as heroes in the society.

“Sexual Harassment — lot has been said, it’s time to act!”

This video will give various scenarios for action in the day in the life of a woman dealing with quotidian sexual harassment.

“What if the table’s were turned?”

This awareness raising video campaign will show how male privilege is normalized in Lebanon.

Another video would shift our perspectives of access by switching the roles of those with disabilities and the ‘norm’. It will also demonstrate the benefits of implementing new norms of accessibility in the society.

Ghayreh 3adtik promos for Nasawiya’s training program: Feminist Tools for Change will deal with various themes : Sexual harassment, Body Image, Freedom and Choice, and Gender Stereotyping.

Why We Must Write

This could be one of the videos for Sawt Al Niswa. This is driven by ones struggle to overcome writer’s block.

next steps:

we will continue to elaborate and develop these ideas and consider who our audience is and how to reach them. next week we will find groups and begin working on these projects.

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week two :: day 4 :: audio + light

Azadeh Faramarziha — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:00:00 +0000

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in today’s session we concentrated on audio, learned some quick basics of lighting and some tips for how to deal with lighting on a low low budget project. we also covered some basics strategies for conducting a video interview.

participants had a chance to get familiar with different types of microphones: camera mic, lavalier, and shot gun. in small groups participants made field recordings of
a person, place, or thing in order to understand directionality, quality, and sensitivity of different microphones and recording devices. We came back together and shared our recordings and our experiences. highlights of the recordings :: opening and closing of a cell phone; the difference between the camera mic, a shotgun, and a small semi-uni directional mic in an interview on a street – finding out the camera mic is omni-directional; and finding out how to capture chewing with a lavalier mic. With this knowledge, everyone left the workshop ready to conduct either a street interview or a formal interview by session 5.

lighting :: key/spot light, back light and fill. this is our mantra. no matter what the situation — key, back, fill. and remember the sun is our best friend in low budget production. if we don’t have a light kit — be resourceful and creative.

my quote of inspiration for this week’s project:

“feel very free to make lots of mistakes.”

next steps:: continue to develop project ideas and think about distribution to refine your concept — who is your audience and how will you reach them. in session 5 we will make groups + keep developing our ideas and start planning for the next phase: PRODUCTION!!!

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