Making a poster

While working for the Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation, I would often travel with a small video cam and shoot stuff. Sometimes I'd edit together footage and make little clips. This one documents activities that took place while doing a photo shoot for a poster. Interviews add insights to the process behind the production.

This is an example of what I call no-budget 'fillm-making' where you just use what you have - on camera mics, available light, sometimes just using the auto settings on the camera - then editing using software that is nowadays often bundled in free with the computers or videocards. It's a way for anyone to start making their own clips and works well for most home-video sorts of things that you're sharing with friends and family.

When you 'graduate' to doing 'serious' stuff that people are paying you for though, then it's ggod to get technically correct - check our lighting, white-balances, manual-focussing, proper sound etc. Suit the process to your skill-level and situations. At times it's bvetter to 'just get it' than to keep waiting for the day when you can afford all the latest equipment. Start small and grow.

One day maybe I'll teach some classes in using my 'no-budget' methods. I believe anyone canmake satisfying video clips for their own and their family's pleasure.

The poster was part of CFPA's Fighting AIDS through Training and Education (FATE) project, which was an HIV/AIDS awareness program conducted in more than 24 English, Dutch and French speaking Caribbean islands. FATE was designed by CFPA and funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

Locations: There are shots from Antigua (poster photo shoot studio shots at Maguire's home-studio, shot of hand turning condom pamphlet page); Barbuda (youth hanging poster); Dominica (sign and posters on wall); St Lucia (posters on office wall); Guyana (young woman holding condom taken from a CFPA TV ad I directed); Montserrat (radio interview with youth).

CFPA is located in Antigua.

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