"Indigenous Voices" Storyboarding (Multimedia Story Telling Project)
Multimedia stories of the project combination of video, text, still photos, audio, graphics and interactivity in the internet through a Home Page and Internet TV will be presented to the public in a nonlinear format, in which the information in each medium will be complementary, not redundant. The storyboard will put together all those elements in collaboration with indigenous and non-indigenous partners.
The elements of the Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change storyboarding will be:
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Nonlinear parts – Home page with inside pages linking to each assessment site page, and divided into parts, including the quest (local climate assessment), a bio (of the assessed region and its peoples), the livelihoods (how they are important), and highlights of the assessment site (its colorful history).
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Participatory Video and Internet TV – Participatory video from the assessment site which will narrate the process of the assessment and will include documentaries of the assessed phenomena. Each indigenous assessment will identify, train and equip indigenous videographers to record the impacts of and responses to, climate change at the local level. These video documentaries and stories will enable indigenous peoples to present their own perspectives on the effects of climate change and link them to the global discourse. The videos will be part of the synthesis report. Indigenous videographers will train people from other communities in order to create a network of indigenous communities using participatory videos that link to global processes. The project will seek collaboration with appropriate participatory video organizations for training and capacity building.
These documentaries and videos will be broadcasted through Internet TV being set up on the main open source Internet TV programs.
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Indigenous Journalism – we will seek partnership with indigenous and non-indigenous journalists to publish, in mainstream media articles and stories on the assessments and indigenous peoples' experiences of climate change impacts, adaptation strategies and consequences of mitigation measures. Indigenous journalists will document the experience of climate change in order to tell their stories.
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Oral Stories – recorded by local people these will be oral narratives, interviews and documentation of the processes to be broadcasted through the project's Internet Radio
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Photography – available from each assessment Web site, and professional photographers, if necessary. These images will be used for photograph exhibits in the international climate change fora.
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Art and Graphics & Multimedia Exhibits – We will identify and work with indigenous and non-indigenous artists to create a multi-media exhibit, using photographs and other traditional indigenous media, which will present indigenous peoples multi-faceted experience of climate change to the global community. A special exhibition will be prepared for the UN Framework Conventions on Climate Change Conference of the Parties meeting (COP15) in Copenhagen in December 2009 as a tool for raising global awareness of the issues faced by indigenous peoples.
