the mobile phone and a new paradigm for missional media production
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The Mobile Phone and
a New Paradigm for
Media Production
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karanj/31869410/
The De Facto Model of
Missions Media
Production
Flow of Insight/
Enablement
Local Believer/ Media Expert
Missionary
Professional Media Equipment
Production of
Media
In this model the local believer or missionary passes on their cultural understanding and insight into how the Gospel can be best understood and expressed in their culture and then relies upon the media expert to translate that understanding and insight into an appropriate media end-product.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vancouverfilmschool/5476664145/
An Altered
Equation
Flow of Insight/
Enablement
Local Believer/Missionary Media
Expert
Mobile Phone w/Camera
Web access and/or video
editing app or freeware
Production of Media
In this model the media expert passes on their understanding of media production to the local believer or missionary and also empowers them through the provision of resources they will need (stock imagery/audio, online editing program, etc.) to produce and distribute their own media.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rayand/4199641605/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Reasons to Change the Paradigm
1) The enormous imbalance between the number of local believers/ missionaries (millions) and missional media producers (hundreds)
Reasons to Change the Paradigm
2) The huge percentage of local believers and missionaries that are equipped and able to shoot video via their mobile phones, etc.
Reasons to Change the Paradigm
3) The availability of on-phone online and free/low-cost video editing programs
Reasons to Change the Paradigm
4) The minimal expertise and expense required to produce media that is “good enough” for a mobile screen (the most widespread screen found among the unreached)
Reasons to Change the Paradigm
5) Large-scale distribution channels are available to local believers and missionaries through video sharing sites and the Bluetooth phone-to-phone transmission channel
The ChallengeCan Christian media ministries make the switch from solely being “media producers” to “media enablers” for the Church?
Some Groups Leading the Way as
Media Enablers• Gemstone Media’s How2Video
http://www.how2video.org
• The Global Short Film Network’s Flight School
http://www.globalshortfilmnetwork.com/trained-create-short-films-ta-t-4_5.html
• The Global Virtual Studio
http://www.globalvirtualstudio.com/alpha.php/
What is Still Needed?Among other things:
• Online open source imagery (for instance, background visuals for chronological Bible stories)
• A single-stop Christian website, program and/or phone app enabling users to 1) Upload and/or find imagery/footage/ audio, 2) edit it and 3) both download the final product for offline distribution as well as upload it for online distribution
When the winds of change blow, some seek shelter, others
build windmillsChinese Proverb
Produced by
Mobile Advance
http://www.mobileadvance.org
e-mail: keith(at)mobileadvance.org