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PO Box 77, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5ZJ, UK
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INTRO:
Founded as an off-shoot
of Lifecycles Pedal Powered
Cinema in mid 2002, Real2Reel is a small independent video production collective
making films about environmental and social justice issues, all with a grassroots
direct action bias.
AIMS:
We aim to make videos
that are informative, entertaining, inspiring and empowering. We hope that our
films will promote alternatives and ideas that facilitate positive change. However,
we also recognise that video activism has two roles; not only to attempt fill
the gap left by the mainstream in terms of covering actvist events, but also
to document events so that the footage may be used as evidence if required.
We welcome being invited to film events but encourage others to take control
of their own representation. We are available for training and workshops.
NETWORKING:
Real2Reel is part of the blooming alternative media movement and works within
an informal network of video activists that is rapidly growing around the world.
To find out more about the activists and politically conscious artists using
video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns, check
out the Video
Activist Network or the IMC
video projects page. Real2Reel regularly contributes to Indymedia
UK and is part of the IMC
UK Video group. We are also involved in WestCountry
IMC and work with other video producers such as Undercurrents
and Dev'lish May.
CONTENT:
Due to our history
and physical base, much of our output is about campaigns against genetically
engineered crops. Other subjects covered have included the campaigns against
the UK's nuclear weapons program and anti-war activities. Mostly our films are
events based (ie. reactive) but aim to produce more indepth issue based films.
At present we are working on a retrospective of the last seven years of anti-GM
campaigning.
SCREENING:
Obviously we make these video to be watched so if you wish to screen our videos
that would be great. Our films, or collaborative projects, have been screened
at the BeyondTV and Brief Encounters film festivals as well as public and activist
screenings around the country. If you are interesting in arranging a screenings;
check out these guides from; VAN,
ENR,
and from Indymedia.
ONLINE:
All of our recent
videos and most of our back catalogue is now available online. Modem friendly,
low bandwidth versions can be found on Indymedia. You can locate our Indymedia
contributions by doing a search
for posts with the author 'R2R').
We have choosen to use
MPEG1 at present for the bulk of our distribution as this format can be used
to make VCDs which are compatible with most DVD players. The MPEG versions are
available to download from www.ngvison.org
and also from our FTP site provided by Commedia.
You can access our FTP site with a FTP client, connecting to the IP address
195.10.228.34 with
the username realvids
and the password r3alvids.
Higher quality versions of our work
are also available online for people doing screenings or requiring editable
footage. These are compressed using the VP3
codec, and placed on the V2V
Network. To download, you will need a peer2peer filesharing client that
supports ed2k, magnet, or torrent (we recommend BitTorrent).
You will need a fast computer and all the relevent codecs to plays these files
correctly.
Occasionally we also upload clips
to Lulop Video if we think
we have something the mainstream media might want to buy. We may also upload
unedited clips to the V2V Network
when we have something that other people might want to incorporate into their
own work (for example the Bush statue being pulled down in Trafalgar square).
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R2R videos online:
This is not a comprehensive list of the videos we have produced or made
available online, please check Indymedia
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The
trials and tribulations of
The
Littlemoor Four - 5 mins
A sequal to the Pink
Castle story. Four people are arrested while trying to stop a farmer from
planting genetically modfied maize. Although they are aquitted when they
go to court, the prosecution appeals and the high court orders a 'retrial' |
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Bayer
Noise - 5 mins
A noise demo by anti-GM
protesters is thwarted by police abusing Section 14 of the Public Order
Act. This video explains illustrates the way the police unlawfully deny
us our rights. |
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Tractors
& Trollies - 4'45"
Farmers, campaigners
and consumers travelled from all over the UK to converge on London on
the 13th October to express their opposition to the governments plans
to allow the commerciallisation of genetically modified crops. |
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No
Allianz For Bayer GM
On 14th October, the
offices of Allianz in London recieved a visit from anti-GM campaigns.
Alliaz is the major shareholder of Bayer, the main company pushing for
commercialisation of GM crops in the UK. |
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Sky
Roma Demo
A rather amusing video
of a demo held outside the Sky Studio in Rome on the 3rd October and attended
by a media activists (and their footballs) from around europe and beyond.
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Modified
Wheat
Protesters in the
UK remove an trial site of experimental wheat to try to disrupt research
and commercialisation of genetically modified crops. These activists aren't
shy about what they are doing and provide interviews while they pull. |
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Independence
FROM America
An alternative 4th
of July celebration. The historic Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, UK, hosts
an unholy wedding between Bush and Blair to the unease of all else present. |
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Bayer
Blockade 2003
Another anti-GM action,
in which a handful of protesters close to Bayers chemical plant in cambridge
during a five hour blockade. This video was produced for a Direct Action
training session. |
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GM
Debate? - 25 minutes
Our longest film to
date.Dozens of people who attended the governments public consultation
events on GM foods speaking out about what they thought of the process. |
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Troubled
Times
April 2003. When censorship
struck in Totnes, Totnes struck back with its own newspaper. This short
video tells the tale of the Trouble Times to the sound track of David
Rovics. |
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Minstry
of D'Fence
This video will get
you cheering in a whistle stop weapons inspection at USAF Fairford in
the UK, one of the few airbases in the world from which US B52s can operate
and used for daily bombing of Iraqi civilians. |
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Soup
Kitchen
A protest in London
at the introduction of changes to Asylum law. January 2003
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Tridenting
It
The story of the 2002
Trident Ploughshares disarmament camp at Plymouth, a week of action against
the refurbishment of the Trident class submarines at Devonport.
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Scrap
Trident
Plymouth people demonstrate
against refurbishment of a Trident nuclear submarine.
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Farmers
and the GM Maze
A 10 minute mini documentary
about GM Maize variety Chardon LL. Made especially for dairy farmers. |
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Anti-biotic
resistance is fertile / Hilton
August 2002. When
it is revealed that an illegal genetically modified organism has been
unlawfully released into the countryside local people took direct action
in an attempt to remove the threat. |
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Stop
Live Exports
This quick edit of
historic footage taken by one of the collective in 1995, was made in response
to the resumption of exports of live animals in Dover in 2002.
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Convoy
/ Messages to DEFRA
The first vido made
by the group that became Real2Reel. Anti-GM campaigns journey to London
from all over the UK to dump bags of trashed GM crops at the door steps
to DEFRA. |
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|  Note:
Some rights reserved, see copyright info below. Videos are encoded in
PAL and
all are produced as 352 x 288 @ 25 fps (with the exception of low bandwidth
versions).
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Konspire2B is a pioneering
new multiplatform peer2peer technology which we think may have massive potential
for online video publishing. It's a bit experimental at present but you can
download the client
software and check out the channels we have set up. Email us for details
and reciever keys.
OFFLINE:
If you don't have access to broadband or can't be arsed to download stuff yourself,
you will be pleased to know that we also produce video CDROMs, VCD and occasional
DVDs, or even VHS. These can be obtained directly from us, or, if there is enough
interest, we may start distributing via CultureShop (www.cultureshop.org)
We will require payment to cover
the costs of the CD burner, blank media, labels, spoilage, cases, packaging,
postage etc. We hope to sort out a bank account real soon but in the mean time
we are sharing the Lifecycles bank
account so you can make cheques payable to 'Lifecycles'
| Real2Reel
Volume 1 is a CVD containing a selection of the videos produced
during the our first year of making videos - July 2002 to July 2003. |
- Messages
to DEFRA (Convoy)
[9 mins]
- Stop Live
Exports
[3 mins]
- Antibiotic
Resistance is Fertile
[7 mins]
- Scrap Trident
[3
mins 45 secs]
- Blockade
Blues [5
mins]
- Tridenting
It [1
1/2 min]
- Soup Kitchen
- asylum rights
[4 1/2 mins]
- Ministry
Of D'Fence
[6 mins]
- Sir Ray
Tindle Ate My Hamster [2
1/2 mins]
- Bayer Blockade
2003
[7 mins]
- Modified
Wheat - Jeolotts Hill [4
1/2 mins]
- Independence
FROM America [6
mins]
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The videos are
supplied on a PAL MPEG1 VCD which should play in most DVD players and
the majority of computers.
The disks also
contain radio shows (buynothing day, drive time, independence) and PDF
resources from some of the actions shown - leaflets, booklets etc. Obviously
this extra content can only be accessed using a computer.
Other formats
may be available on request. |
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Volume 2 has not yet been competed but will be ready by
mid 2004. The titles not highlighted in bold are predictions ;-) |
- The
Littlemoor Four - 5 mins
- Bayer
Noise - 5 mins
- Tractors
& Trollies - 4'45"
- No
Allianz For Bayer GM - 3'35"
- Sky
Demo Roma - 5 mins
- Disarm DSEI - an IMC UK Video Group project - 20 mins
- DSEI water sports
- DSEI blockade
- No Bush
- Pink Castle redux
- Buy
Nothing Day
- Something else from further away....
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We should have
fingured out how to produce DVDs by the time volume 2 is ready. We will
however continue to supply VCD as a prefered format as it is cheaper and
less elitist.
The compilation
will also contain additional contect including; DSEi radio, Anti-war Radio,
GM FM!, and various PDF resources from some of the actions shown - leaflets,
booklets etc.
Obviously this
extra content will only be accessable using a computer with the appropriate
software installed.
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COPYRIGHT:
All our content, unless otherwise stated, is made available under the Creative
Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. . This basically means that you
can copy and distribute our work freely as long as there is no profit involved.
If you use our work, the licence terms must persist and, if we wish, you should
allow us to use your work under similar conditions. Credit for our work is appreciated
but not essential. Licenses for commercial use or broadcast can be negotiated
(ask for our fee card).
MONEY:
Sometime we sell our
footage or stills to the mainstream news services and any resulting fees/royalties
received are feed back into the project to pay for travel, expenses, tape stock,
blank media, equipment etc. Real2Reel is a not-for-profit organisation and does
not employ anyone. The people involved volunteer their time and efforts for
free (with the exception of specifically funded 'big' projects which may occasionally
provide somebody with subsistance level living expences).
DONATIONS:
Needless to say, we welcome funding
or donations, both financial or equipment. Computers, large hard drives, microphones,
used DV tapes, lenses, filters, tripods, batteries, additional cameras etc would
all find a good home either with us or with our associates, Lifecycles,
Westcountry
IMC, or Totnes Genetix
Group.
EQUIPMENT:
Real2Reel currently owns very little equipment of it's own and has been borrowing
kit from Lifecycles,
Totnes Genetics Group and
individuals. The kit in use includes; Sony PC110E miniDV palmcorder, Sony TRV900E
3CCD miniDV camera with additonal telephoto and zoom lenses, a NEC 1300A cd/dvd
burner, and a 1.7ghz laptop.
SOFTWARE::
Saddly we have not been impressed by the provision for video editting under
Linux so we have stuck with Micro$oft Windoze. We cut our teeth with Adobe Premier
but got fed up with it crashing so we briefly flirted with Avid DV Express before
settling down with Sonic Foundry Vegas which is stable and well featured. We
use BBMPEG
or TMPEGenc
to encode mpeg1 and also find VirtualDub
indispensible. While we're recommending software, Media
Player Classic and VideoLanClient
are bloody great.