TruemorsWORLDbytes’ crews of young volunteers learning to shoot alternative news programmes are regularly stopped from filming on the streets of London. Yet it is not against the law to film in public spaces, to investigate what the public think and let people have their say on issues of the day. Sick of being stopped, volunteers made a stand against the arbitrary interference suffered by photographers and film makers and achieved a one day victory for citizen journalism. In future they’ll certainly question instructions to ‘move on’ and need your support.
Freedom to film (freedom to film.wmv)
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Malatesta (not verified)at 14:20 on February 22nd, 2010
In my opinion the media is continually becoming a place for the elites, its driven by profit which has a negative impact on independent media. Even the BBC, which supposedly should have no link to the drive for profit is run by the elites of society. You can point to figures that show that only 5% of successful BBC applicants in the last few years have been to Oxbridge universities but that does not paint a picture of how the BBC is ran. It is ran by the management and of course, there is a much larger percentage of Oxbridgers within that structure. This kind of elitism is endemic to all big media sources which also co-incidently seem to give us a rather similar story of the world today. I think we must protect and build independent media, because media is there to give people news, stories and a range of opinions, not just those that the mainstream media want us to hear...
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Ceri Dingleat 03:22 on February 23rd, 2010
I agree there is an eltism and exclusivity to the mainstream media and budgets beyond our dreams, yet they are always asking for our feedback and bigging up inclusion which is quite ironic. The issue here though is not really the squeeze on independents by mainstream media as they can film anywhere but the burgeoning bureaucracy and 'jobsworths' preventing the rest of us from filming on our own streets - they use a host of excuses from vulnerable people to terrorism to shops complaining all of which are a nonsense..it would be good to know how other Now Public video makers deal with the problem, how widespread this is and if this is a peculiarly UK problem.
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naomilambat 09:15 on February 26th, 2010
What I liked about 'Freedom to Film' is how it significantly emphasizes the misconceptions about our civil liberties and our rights to film in public spaces. The irony is that we as members of the public are questioned and on occasion have been prevented from filming our own social surroundings, yet on the grounds of 'security' there are dozens of CCTV cameras filming us without our permission. In one word, Hypocrisy! I too (when I was a FTV student) have been told not to film on the Universities own campus under the fabrication of the Data Protection Act and that individuals may object, how absurd! I 100% agree with the interviewees who stated that the 'Anti terrorist Legislation' has negatively contributed to the impediment of public filming which is defectively creating a "Culture of Fear"