Ben Edwards
Ben Edwards
numbers
Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,
chemistry nice starting team together
It was a nice pitch, right where I like it. We are starting to come together as a team and the chemistry is awesome.
audience audiences goals measure number sort specific terms
We didn't have specific goals in terms of number of downloads. Partially because there's nothing to measure us against. It's a very new medium, and it's a niche. We weren't sure what sort of audience we would attract.
campaign current filtered lead led mainstream ratings solely
While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.
evident experience indeed mirrors politics relevant type understanding
This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.
artistic edit element issues
There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.
argued both films indeed nature partisan powerful tend therefore
Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.
close due makers nature partisan subject tend
Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.
activities disrupt example occupation profile raise
An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.
activism activities change defined engaged
Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.
amongst enable focusing inherently themselves
Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.
power relates viewer
The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.
activists change doers energies generally rather television watching
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
cover stories
It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.