Continuing Education & Professional Development
Creating Digital Videos for Social Change
Effective organizations are increasingly turning to short videos to inform, motivate, and/or organize their various constituencies. This workshop provides hands-on experience in creating digital videos to assist with internal organizational communication, for social marketing, and for keeping stakeholders informed. Participants will acquire the tools to engage in digital video editing and production. Much of this workshop will occur in the Vitale Digital Video Lab at Penn’s Van Pelt Library, where students will use Apple computers and the I-Movie digital video editing software. (Advanced, experienced students will have an opportunity to use Final Cut Pro video editing software).
Date(s): Friday, January, 18, 2008 (9:00am–5:00pm)
and Saturday, January 19, 2008 (9:00am–4:00pm)
Location: 3815 Walnut St, Seminar Room B, School of Social Policy & Practice Annex
Instructor(s): Andrew Lamas
Andrew Lamas was a founding board member of the Center for Community Self-Help (which has provided nearly $4 billion in financing to more than 40,000 small businesses, nonprofits, and homebuyers, particular low-wealth minorities and women) and the Reinvestment Fund, which provides financing (managing more than $250 million of capital) for affordable housing and community development in the Greater Philadelphia region). He serves on the board of the Bread & Roses Community Fund and is a senior consultant with Praxis Consulting Group (working with employee owned firms, community development financial institutions, and non-profit institutions). In the 1980s, he was the Managing Director of PACE, one of the nation’s leading providers of technical assistance for worker ownership and developer, in collaboration with the United Food & Commercial Workers union, of the O&O Supermarkets, the nation’s first network of employee owned and operated supermarkets. Andy teaches in the Urban Studies Program and the School of Social Policy & Practice. He received a B.A. from Davidson College, an M.A. in Economic Development from the University of London, and a J.D. from Penn’s Law School.