Wrap up & next week

Hi all,

I am very happy with how much work you all got done in Final Cut today. You proved me wrong that 3 people is too many for a joint editing effort. Next week you'll have almost the whole class to finish up what you started & we'll all watch what you made.

Because (most if not all of) you are behind on your final projects (!!!), the videos and the reading for next week are now OPTIONAL. Oh, how I am cutting you a break. They are great videos and you should feel encouraged to watch one of them and blog anyway. Be ready to tell me about how much progress you have made in class next week.

There are 2 video options:
1) A LITTLE BIT OF SO MUCH TRUTH (UN POQUITO DE TANTA VERDAD) In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.

2) THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE! With more cameras on the street than any other media organization, the Independent Media Center (IMC) coordinated hundreds of media activists and collected more than 300 hours of video footage during the 1990 WTO protests in Seattle. This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a co-production of the IMC and Big Noise Films, weaves the footage of over 100 videographers into a gripping document of what really happened on Seattle’s streets.