We have been thinking about creating an EYAG YouTube Channel (or a section dedicated to EYAG in the current EAVI Channel). We are looking for volunteering individuals interested in video-journalism, who would be producing short videos to upload to this Channel.
The basic idea is to provide you with a topic/question of the month to explore in your country through January-December 2013 that are connected to citizenship/media/ democracy and reflect EU trends and EU policies. For example: “Did you know that from 1st April 2012 EU citizens can ask the European Commission to legislate if they collect 1 million signatures?”, “Do you know what media literacy is?”, “Do you know how to protect your child from harmful use of the Internet?” Questions would be provided by EAVI in consultation with the European Commission.
EYAG Members would interview briefly people in their country. These people could be neighbours, friends, student mates, professors, relatives, experts in the given field you feel like contacting and, preferably, also to reflect the view of everyday people, asking strangers in the streets for their opinion. Editing the material that you shoot into a 5-10 min. material would be your task, too, and then send us for uploading and widely distributing to EAVI’s extensive network and to the Commission. The channel will also provide you with visibility online, of course. From each country participating, there would be therefore 12 videos by the end of 2013, and also we would edit the monthly videos into a summary video providing a European overview next to the national ones.
We would like to know whether you are enthusiastic about this idea and if you would be interested in such a topic. Would like to volunteer for such a task? Let us know in the comments below.
