Video: Version 1 (not final!)

Here is our first draft of our video. It is very rough and full of information. At this point in the process, we knew this information was important, but we also didn't want to bore our audience to tears, so we became very frustrated with the video. We were overwhelmed by the injustices women face around the world, but we knew the purpose of our video was not just to focus on the negative aspect of women oppression. We wanted to speak about how far women have come (by talking about the history of International Women's Day and displaying inspiring successful women from the past). We then wanted to focus on the future - where women still need egalitarian rights (as outlined by the UN Millenium Goals). It was an exciting process. There were staggering facts that displayed the oppression of women, but also exciting facts about where women have come.

We knew that our advocacy work was to raise awareness to the attendees of the International Women's Day Gala. We can celebrate, but we can't just stop there.

We showed the first draft of our video to Clare and she thought that it needed some fixing up. She also requested that we change it to more celebratory, and she recommended inspiring women we could utilize, including Kim Campbell, Sandra Oh, and many others.

In a way it was frustrating because it felt like we were starting over, but we understood that advocacy work can be like that sometimes. But as we began to work on the second draft of the video, we had so much information and groundwork laid, that it wasn't half as difficult as making the first copy.

As a side note:
During our group process we used this blog as a mode of information sharing, but we also used email to communicate logistics (especially since our mentor checked the email much more than she checked the blog). Unfortunately, in the process, I believe some information was passed over email that never made it to the blog.