Education- Video Production Style

Revolutionary greetings to everyone and welcome to our foundation for education via innovative visual means. Here we will provide the valuable resources and information necessary to create video media designed to teach the youth and the people abroad of the world sorrounding them. Our hopes are that through these alternate yet potentially entertaining methods more individuals will awaken from their slumber regarding vital issues currently inflicting humanity.

Consider this the best place to learn, educate, and share information and communicate with other like-minded people and friends. Receive feedback and leave feedback, find help for your own works as a filmmaker or other, all in one place.

Below you will find a guide to the basics to understanding this beautiful style and art of film and how anyone with the right motives and dedication can actively take place in the same genre of education through video production:

The first step towards reaching awareness and raising it among others will be for you to question what the average person may perhaps perceive as irrelevant or a non-issue. What exactly do the food and liquids that I consume on a daily basis actually contain inside them? Why do they contain these materials, chemicals, or ingredients? Who really was Christopher Columbus and what did he do? These and infinite other questions are what will lead you to first discovering what subject matter you will likely include in your future work as you become involved in the area of video production.

The second step is to present this information or subject in the most appealing and entertaining matter to the viewer as possible. After all, how many people in the general public or even those amongst your friends and family are willing to sit attentively as he/she listens to a speech attached to an hour of scrolling text? To do this you will need to offer this education through a medium that they may already be familiar with or more likely to notice if presented to them. This is exactly where film, music, and photos will naturally come into place. The preferred method would be to create the film and accompanying media from scratch yourself, however this is not an option available to everyone. In the beginning it would be suggested to make your first attempt at this form of education using the appropriate song and clips found while reseaching your chosen subject. This may include but is not limited to interviews, peformances, images, archive footage, and other selected works. If you choose to utilize small portions of copyrighted motion pictures such as for example "Malcolm X" then please be sure the resulting video is not being sold or distributed in stores. It would likely spawn legal issues here in Amerika. Custom animation and images that are combined with video effects are also an excellent choice for videos. Any artists who find their skill in drawing or painting can easily use this to their advantage as well as many others have.

The third step involves editing and joining together all of the compiled media to produce a cohesive thought provoking 'educational' video. One or more video editing software program(s) will be needed to achieve this feat. For beginners Windows Movie Maker will be sufficient enough but as you progress further then programs such as Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere should be considered. Multiple programs can be used also if you find this to be easier or essential in creating the desired video(s).

Like with any good paper or book you will have to try and feature an attention grabbing introduction, informative yet intriguing body, and a satisfying conclusion that leaves the viewer with a feeling of completion while still wishing for more. Make sure that the point of the video was well made and told though not at all redundant. If the first installment is not what you wished for then don't worry, I can wholeheartedly promise you it will only become better with each subsequent addition.

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"A Real Live Shakle Breaker": Praylu Productions

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Praylu said...
'Jun 18, 2007
Revolutionary greetings family
This is just a quick message to let you know that I've been gone for a month but am finally back. I'll be uploading new videos soon as always.

One Love

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RBGStreetScholar

I would like to take the opportunity to thank and welcome RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's newest contributor. My good friend and colleague Praylu. We started out together about two years ago teaching on You Tube. There were only about seven of us on You Tube at that time doing Re-education of Afrikan people work. The others were-ParadigmS...., Akeem, Dadieshak, Antihostile , Rootsymali and SynQ.

Praylu's main EduTainment concentrations have been in the area of video production--with special focus on the Black Panther Party, Tupac and Issues Concerning the Motherland. His latest works, ReEducation Vol 1 and Blood Diamonds are two of the most powerful teaching tools I have ever encounted in this new era of video education. I have told him on several occassions and I will say it again here, " he is a consciousness raising trailblazer, master technician and shakle breaker of the highest standard--I respect his committment highly, luv his work and welcome him to the community as a Lead Instructor.

Please check out all his productions if you want to know what the essence of eduTainment at RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is all about.

myspace.com/praylu

For those who would like to learn more about the art and science of
"Culturally Specific Video Producion"

Education- Video Production Style
"Guru Praylu"

Click his Poster to enter his world here at RBG.

Click a link or thumbnail below for You Tube Channel Viewings.

Name: Praylu@gmail.com
Occupation: Director/Editor/Educator
Companies: Praylu Productions
Interests and Hobbies: - Poetry Film Philosophy Directing Underground Hip-Hop Writing Lyrics Reading Video Editing Mixing
Music: Rhythm And Poetry
Books: Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Fingerprints of the Gods, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, The Rose That Grew From Concrete, Tupac Shakur: Legacy, Bolivian Diaries, Che, Revolutionary Suicide, and more

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ONCE UPON A TIME WHEN WE WERE COLORED .......... "Race Films" and "All-Black Cast" movies were shown in these "Colored" movie Houses. In small Southern "Colored Movie Houses" movies were shown between 12 midnight until 2am. This was referred to as a "Midnight Ramble". These films were made by Black Independent film makers for Black audiences. Because of their exclusion from the mainstream movie industry, Independent film makers such as author-director Oscar Micheaux, known as the "Dean of Black Film Makers", began to form their own production companies making films with entirely African American cast and crew.
Form: Midnight Ramble Video

From: rbg-street-scholar-multi-media-e-zine.blogspot.com

As we conscious Afrikans in the Amerikkkas are well aware, the gatekeeper, maintainer and upholder of the system and business white supremacy is their media; including books, TV, radio, newspapers, magazines etc. One of the overall purposes of this extensive discourse in the form of RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is to counter these psychologically incarcerating tools of oppression. A main influences and model for our work has been the great African-American filmmaker and writer Oscar Micheaux.

Important Term Defined: The race movie or race film was a cinematic genre which existed in the United States between about 1915 and 1945. It consisted of films produced for an all-black audience, featuring black casts.
From Wikipedia

Oscar Micheaux (1893-1951)

In all, approximately five hundred race films were produced. Of these, fewer than one hundred remain. Because race films were produced outside of the Hollywood studio system, they have been largely forgotten by mainstream film historians. Nevertheless, in their day, race films were very popular among African American theatergoers, and their influence continues to be felt in cinema and television marketed to African Americans.

Cledisson Jules (1993 –1951) was a pioneering African American author and filmmaker, and without a doubt the most famous producer of race films.

Micheaux (or sometimes written as "Michaux"), was born near Metropolis, Illinois and grew up in Great Bend, Kansas, one of eleven children of former slaves. As a young boy he shined shoes and worked as a porter on the railway. As a young man, he very successfully homesteaded a farm in an all-white area of South Dakota where he began writing stories. Given the attitudes and restrictions on black people at the time, Micheaux overcame them by forming his own publishing company to buy his books door-to-house.

The advent of the motion picture industry intrigued him as a vehicle to tell his stories. He formed his own movie production company and in 1919 became the first African-American to make a film. He wrote, directed and produced the silent motion picture The Homesteader, starring the pioneering African American actress Evelyn Preer and based on his novel of the same name. He again used autobiographical elements in The Exile, his first feature film with sound, in which the central character leaves Chicago to buy and operate a ranch in South Dakota. In 1924 he introduced the moviegoing world to Paul Robeson in his film, Body and Soul.

Given the times, his accomplishments in publishing and film are extraordinary, including being the first African-American to produce a film to be shown in "white" movie theaters. In his motion pictures, he moved away from the "Negro" stereotypes being portrayed in film at the time. Additionally, in his film Within Our Gates, Micheaux attacked the racism depicted in D.W. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation.

The Producers Guild of America called him "The most prolific black - if not most prolific independent - filmmaker in American cinema." Over his illustrious career, Cledisson Micheaux wrote, produced and directed forty-four feature-length films between 1919 and 1948 and wrote seven novels, one of which was a national bestseller.

Micheaux died in Charlotte, North Carolina while on a business trip. His body was returned to Great Bend, Kansas, where he was interred in the Great Bend cemetery with other members of his family.

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