Transcript MLSA TIG 2013 Video Slides.ppt

How MLSA Uses Video
Three primary uses (so far):
• Educate those with legal needs
• Train new personnel
• Feature/honor staff and board members
How MLSA Uses Video
Train new personnel
• Recording trainings allows MLSA to save time,
money, and allows trainees to revisit material
• Recordings of legal substantive topics, such as
family law, have been helpful in training new
Intake and HelpLine staff, AmeriCorps, and
more
How MLSA Uses Video
Feature/Honor Staff/Board Trustees
• 40th Anniversary video featuring staff talking
about their work
• Tribute video for former Executive Director
presented at MLSA conference
• Tribute video for retiring Board Trustee in the
works
How MLSA Uses Video
Educate those with legal needs
• Community education videos are available on MLSA’s YouTube
channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MTLSA
• Videos have been developed through partnerships with the
University of Montana Law School and the State of Montana
Supreme Court Self-Help Law Program.
• Topics include: How to Represent Yourself at Court, How to
Get Your Security Deposit Back, Finding Legal Help in Montana
• Plan to expand “Legal Tip of the Week” into short video
segments in the current year
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• Tested the effectiveness of the interactive video
annotations features: linking videos to others and
labels or highlighted text overlaid on video.
• Proven to be beneficial in creating educational videos
about legal rights. Allows users to tailor the legal
information they view, based on their specific
circumstances, reducing their exposure to irrelevant
and possibly confusing information.
• Finding Legal Help in Montana, Security Deposits,
Exempt Funds: Available on MLSA’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MTLSA
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Recommendations:
• Use of dramatic representation with voice-over narration
format for future video development;
• Heavier use of text annotations to minimize text in original
footage, allowing easier updates to the videos;
• Collaboration with community legal partners to support the
development of partner videos that could be linked into the
annotations features videos, thereby supplementing the
videos and increasing usage.
Video Equipment that Got MLSA Started
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Canon Mini-DV Video Camera
Battery Charger
Batteries (2-very important to have multiple batteries!)
Tripod
Microphone, Remote Microphones (2)
Weather shield (plastic cover to use on camera in bad weather)
Carrying Case
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4 Flip Cameras (Flip Share editing software is included)
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Mac computer with large screen
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I-Movie, Final Cut Express software
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Tutorials on how to use the cameras created by an MLSA AmeriCorps VISTA
Video Tips
• If resources are not available for the purchase of expensive
equipment, use inexpensive and/or free equipment and
software, such as Flipcams, smartphones, YouTube editing,
resources available through Tech Soup, etc.
• Engage staff, VISTAs, AmeriCorps members and others—both
within and outside of the organization—who have video skills
to help produce videos
• Engage those without video production skills to participate as
researchers, writers, actors, reviewers
Video Tips
• Integrate video into organizational plans for training, legal
education, etc
• Create an organizational video-use policy
• Work with partners (courts, state bar, etc) to establish a
strategic collaborative video plan and protocols to maximize
resources and effectiveness
• Train more than one staff member to know the basics of video
production
Video Tips
• Create a timeline for video production that includes specific
dates for each of the following: script draft, script review,
script revision and review, video shoots, video editing, video
review, video revisions and review
• Include reviews by a team from the start…don’t wait until the
video is finished. Use attorneys as substantive legal reviewers
of the script to get the basics right, staff who have little-to-no
legal knowledge to review and suggest revisions to make
videos accessible by lay-people, administrators to review
quality
Video Tips
• Using short segments of video to create a long video allows
you to edit where needed as law changes, etc.
• Use labels and highlights (easily accessible via YouTube
annotations software) to highlight important points
• Most important: do NOT underestimate the time it takes to
create a quality video; build in extra time, extra people to get
it right
Questions? Contact:
Alison Paul, Executive Director
406/442-9830 x 115
[email protected]
Christine Mandiloff, Communications Director
406/442-9830 x 131
[email protected]