Planning your participatory video

1. The Storyboard

2. Script and Dialogue

The list of questions to answer to develop your idea:

• What is your video about? 
• What is the message you want to send and why?
• Why is it important for you to tell this story?

The list of questions to answer to realise your video idea:

• What happens in your story?
• Where does it happen?
• When does it happen?
• Why did it happen?

3. Conducting a Video Interview

Sometimes when shooting a video interview some people might find it difficult to organise their ideas and speak in front of the camera.

In this case you can ask your interviewee to write their thoughts on paper to remember what to say.

There are some tips you can use to make this process work smoothly:

1. Write the text in capital letters and hold it just on the top of the camera so the person interviewed can read during the video shooting.
2. Ask the person to repeat what you say. You can read their paper and ask them to repeat sentence by sentence. During the final edit you will need to delete your voice and only keep the images and voice of the interviewee.

The Voiceover

Another way to use a recorded text in a video is a technique called voiceover. You can create a voiceover recording someone reading a text. The voiceover is a piece of narration in a video not accompanied by an image of the speaker. In the final edit, the voiceover can be accompanied by words, illustrations and videos that clarify what you are listening to.