Step two: Put the spotlight on AIDS
- Collecting your messages
- Stunts and Events
Set-up and practicalities
To make your video messages as effective as possible you will need a reasonably quiet area in which to make your films, unless you are collecting them on the move. You will also need equipment.
Equipment check-list:
- Camera (e.g a video camera, a mobile phone or a digital camera)
- Location
- Backdrop
- Clapper board
The Waiting Room
As a group you will need time to get the equipment ready and set up. Individuals may require time to prepare their messages and think about the issue. What better place to do this than in a comfortable ‘waiting room’? The waiting room can contain many things to inspire those waiting to go on film. How about:
Make a clapper board
- Get some cardboard, scissors and glue.
- Generate your clapper board
- Create name slips for each message and stick them onto the board under ‘scene’.
- Use a butterfly pin to create the clapper hinge.
- You could bang something in the background to create a ‘clapper’ sound.
Make an AIDS is POLITICAL backdrop:
- Use your AIDS is POLITICAL stencil to create a backdrop for your message clips.
- Get a piece of material and either stencil onto it or copy the stencil design to enlarge it.
- Campaign materials
- Posters
- Pictures
- Case studies
- Mirror
- Fancy dress box (this could be themed)
- Relevant facts to do with waiting: e.g. five million people are waiting to receive treatment.
Sending your messages to the world
1. Upload your clip onto YouTube
- Go to the upload page
- If you don’t already have one, create a YouTube account.
- Click upload and follow the upload instructions.
- In ”tags’ write ‘AIDSisPOLITICAL’ exactly as it is here. This will link all the video messages together in searches so increasing our impact.
- Email us to let us know the details. Once your message is on YouTube we’ll collect it with the others to form a video wall on the P&P website, where they can be viewed by decision makers - and the rest of the world.
2. Burn your messages onto CD/get the video tape.
3. Post the messages to People & Planet
People & Planet, 51 Union St, Oxford, OX4 1JP. This stage is necessary because YouTube clips are limited in image quality, so we need the originals to make a good quality film.
4. Contact us with any problems
Contact Chloe at the P&P office, via phone — 01865 245 678 — or email