Ideas for Creating Videos

• If your Community Learning Centre, community group or school has a video camera you can borrow, some people in your literacy group may really enjoy this project.
• You could video Elders’ interviews if they feel comfortable with that. As well, make an audio recording, so you will have access to both later.
• You could video the steps in completing a skill – preparing skins, making a tool, preparing igunaq.
• Create a commentary for your video – an oral description of what is happening in the video. The commentary might be an Elder’s words. Or, as literacy group members, you can create the commentary yourselves. Write out the script for the commentary and produce it after the visual portion of the video is prepared and edited.
• Your group could act out a traditional story or myth and videotape the production. First research the story or myth in as many forms as possible – written stories, oral interviews and recorded interviews. Then write a script for your production. (See Skits, Plays or Puppet Plays in the Active Projects section and Radio Plays in the Oral Projects section for ideas on preparing a script.)
• You could partner with a group in another community. Decide on a topic that both groups are interested in. Each group can research and create a video in their own community and then send the video to their partner group. This is one way to compare regional differences.
• Video a trip by Elders to a place on the land where they used to live. Video their stories for others to share.
• Each member of the literacy group could video songs, aqausiit or pisiit that are sung by members of their family. The family would then have a record of these songs to keep, as well as perhaps making them available in the library or cultural centre.
• Add music, commentary, graphics or sounds to the videos.