This document discusses how documentary work, including video, can help advance social change and craft policy. It provides examples of how the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce has used documentary approaches in its projects. Embedding documentarians allows them to capture stories and lessons that emerge from initiatives in a way that traditional reports cannot convey. The video interviews and perspectives incorporated into a narrative help focus partners on shared goals rather than differences. Building a library of documentary content allows sharing stories and experiences to enhance understanding and progress toward common aims.
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1. How Documentary Can Help Craft Policy and
Advance Social Change
Everyday,
Corporation
for
a
Skilled
Workforce
(CSW)
works
with
policy
makers,
community
leaders,
and
change
agents
dedicated
to
improving
–
even
reinventing
–
the
systems
and
services
that
help
people,
firms,
and
communities
thrive.
Together,
we
find
ways
to
create
new
opportunities
for
working,
learning,
and
engaging
communities
in
building
prosperous
futures.
We’ve
been
there
to
hear
the
“ah
ha”
moments
that
turn
skeptics
into
champions.
We’ve
witnessed
large
groups
of
people
move
from
making
demands
to
offering
contributions.
And
we
know
the
hard
work
it
takes
to
make
even
the
most
elegant,
data-‐rich,
and
universally
supported
plans
and
strategies
come
to
life.
But
these
victories
do
not
lend
themselves
to
simple
narrative
description.
While
we
have
long
been
eager
to
share
our
experiences
and
lessons
with
colleagues,
peers,
and
partner
organizations,
our
traditional
reports
simply
did
not
convey
the
richness
of
our
experience
in
community
interactions
leading
to
change.
So
we
began
experimenting
with
video.
Early Experiments
Mid
Michigan
Innovation
Team.
In
early
2007,
with
the
support
of
a
federal
grant,
education,
economic
development,
and
workforce
partners
from
13
counties
launched
an
effort
to
reimagine
and
reinvent
their
region.
Partners
focused
on
aligning
strategies
and
investments
across
five
industry
sectors
in
ways
that
also
supported
entrepreneurship
and
sustainability.
It
was
a
tall
order
for
this
largely
rural
region
with
no
large
metropolitan
center,
no
shared
identity,
and
little
precedent
for
working
together
on
such
a
comprehensive
agenda.
CSW
supported
the
Mid
Michigan
effort
in
a
variety
of
ways
–
including
embedding
a
“Documentarian”
(Melodee
Hagensen)
in
the
region
to
capture
stories
and
lessons
from
the
initiative
as
they
emerged.
Over
time,
we
captured
hundreds
of
hours
of
video.
We
interviewed
initiative
leaders,
board
members,
project
leads,
students,
teachers,
even
“people-‐on-‐the-‐street”
(at
farmers
markets
and
in
parks
and
other
public
venues).
Almost
immediately,
the
value
of
this
approach
became
evident.
First,
video
combined
the
perspectives
people
from
across
the
13-‐counties
into
a
single
narrative
helped
leaders
from
across
the
region
focus
on
what
their
communities
shared,
rather
than
how
and
why
they
were
different
from
one
another.
Second,
it
provided
a
reference
point
for
conversations
and
ideas
–
partners
could
ask
each
other
how
their
plans
would
help
address
the
concerns
of
the
region’s
residents
as
expressed
on
video.
Third,
the
simple
act
of
recording
partners
forced
them
to
think
deeply
about
how
they,
personally,
were
invested
in
change
and
why
–
it
shifted
their
attention
away
from
CSW
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with
the
terms
of
the
grant”
and
helped
them
see
new
opportunities
to
leverage
resources
for
community
benefit.
Over
time,
we
built
a
library
that
tells
many
stories
–
how
this
community
thinks
about
collaboration,
the
meaning
and
impact
of
its
automotive
heritage
and
capacity
for
the
industries
of
the
future,
its
commitment
to
a
home-‐grown,
yet
globally-‐competitive
innovation
and
entrepreneurship
culture.
We
can
now
draw
content
for
many
different
purposes
from
this
library,
sharing
or
contributing
it
in
ways
that
enhance
shared
understanding
and
advance
common
aims.
Building a Documentary Practice
We
have
since
built
documentary
work
(video
and
otherwise)
into
many
projects
in
a
variety
of
ways.
Enhancing
Communications:
Innovation
Frontier
Arizona.
In
Southern
Arizona,
community
leaders
launched
a
regional
initiative
to
nurture
talent,
entrepreneurship,
and
collaboration
for
economic
growth,
and
asked
CSW
to
assist
in
communications
and
community
engagement.
Early
on,
we
recognized
that
the
formal
interventions
were
necessary
but
not
sufficient
to
accomplish
the
bold
goals
of
the
project.
Informal
activities
were
needed
to
grow
entrepreneurial
culture
and
encourage
collaboration.
We
embedded
a
local
documentarian
and
social
media
expert
to
raise
awareness
of
these
efforts
by
sharing
video
and
creating
communications
platforms
to
support
collaborative
work.
In
projects
where
we
embed
documentarians,
partners
can
request
that
we
cut
a
brief
video
from
our
library
to
help
illustrate
any
topic.
Sharing
this
video
across
media
platforms
helps
us
create
a
more
whole
story.
Integrating
video
helps
spice
up
presentations
at
meetings
and
conferences
to
keep
audiences
engaged
and
build
support.
Adding
video
to
an
electronic
newsletter
increases
the
number
of
readers
who
open
and
click
through
to
view
the
material,
improving
the
chance
that
partners
stay
updated
and
involved
in
the
project.
A
shared
video
channel
allows
new
participants
to
be
quickly
brought
up
to
speed
and
“meet”
the
other
members.
Inviting
participants
to
share
their
videos
helps
build
a
shared
sense
of
community
and
involvement
in
change
efforts.
Designing
Events,
Supporting
Communities
of
Practice.
We
employ
video
as
a
method
for
engagement
in
events
or
websites
we
help
to
design,
plan,
or
staff.
For
example,
we
partner
with
the
National
Governors
Association
(NGA)
and
the
National
Sector
Strategies
Partnerships
to
build
and
maintain
www.sectorstrategies.org
which
houses
a
toolkit
for
workforce
practitioners
who
are
working
to
advance
sector
strategies
in
their
states.
By
adding
video
interviews
with
leaders
from
11
states,
we
were
able
to
mak
the
toolkit
more
personal,
bringing
connecting
information
seekers
with
experienced
practitioners
sharing
their
insight.
Promoting
Innovation
and
Experimentation.
In
Mid
Michigan,
where
we
are
working
with
regional
leaders
in
education
to
support
a
budding
entrepreneurial
culture,
we
have
used
YouTube
competitions
to
reach
out
to
students
in
the
region
to
understand
the
work
that
they
are
doing
to
create
new
enterprise.
We
also
used
video
to
share
the
stories
of
how
colleges
and
universities
can
be
drivers
of
entrepreneurship
in
the
region.
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3. Building
Capacity.
We
are
not
“videographers.”
We
help
build
the
capacity
of
our
peers
and
partners
to
understand
and
use
video
–
and
not
just
as
a
broadcast
mechanism
but
a
vehicle
for
engagement,
learning,
understanding.
We
work
with
our
partners
to
identify
documentarians
in
their
communities
who
can
work
with
them
–on
their
budgets.
We
may
manage
student
interns
or
professional
documentarians,
helping
them
identify
and
capture
important
storylines
as
they
develop.
Other
times,
we
have
introduced
leaders
to
simple
tools
for
creating
their
own
videos,
by
using
simple
tools
to
capture
exciting
experiences
in
their
work.
Our
partner
organization
in
Mid
Michigan,
the
Prima
Civitas
Foundation,
now
regularly
integrates
video
into
overall
communications
and
engagement
efforts.
Increasing
Transparency.
We
continue
to
experiment
with
new
ways
to
visualize
policymaking,
systems
alignment,
and
social
change
work,
making
it
accessible,
and
ultimately,
more
effective.
We
call
this
“working
out
loud.”
Lessons and Learnings
While
how
we
use
video
depends
on
the
nature
of
specific
projects
and
the
goals
we
seek
to
accomplish,
we
have
identified
some
general
purpose
lessons
we
try
to
incorporate
into
all
of
our
work.
Consider
specific
fit
and
application
of
video.
Video
is
fun.
Having
a
camera
can
make
everything
look
like
a
potential
video.
But
video
is
at
once
a
medium,
a
method,
and
a
product:
polished
video
takes
time
to
produce
and
makes
people
proud,
but
unedited
interviews
can
also
meet
the
need.
Thinking
about
the
specific
ways
in
which
video
will
be
used
and
in
what
form
can
help
insure
that
the
process
and
product
meet
stated
goals,
affordably.
Integrate
planning
for
shooting,
editing,
and
producing
video
up
front
–
at
the
beginning
of
a
project.
When
we
first
started
integrating
video
into
our
work,
we
did
so
tentatively
–
capturing
the
formal
side
of
events,
and
then
wishing
afterward
that
we’d
also
captured
the
informal
side.
There
were
also
times
we
were
asked
to
shoot
video
at
a
culminating
project
event,
but
had
no
footage
from
the
project’s
launch
to
compare
or
integrate.
Over
time,
we’ve
become
more
disciplined
about
treating
video
work
in
the
same
way
we
treat
data
collection,
policy
analysis,
facilitation
planning,
or
any
other
product
or
service.
Encourage
others
to
shoot
video
and
share
it.
Often,
partners
are
already
creating
video,
or
can
become
excited
by
the
possibilities
when
introduced
to
simple
tools
and
technologies
that
help
them
share
their
piece
of
the
story.
Creating
a
space
for
sharing
video
allows
us
to
reveal
where
others
are
already
carrying
our
message
and
to
encourage
their
support
and
connectivity
more
deeply.
Announce
your
intentions
and
carry
necessary
permissions.
People
are
comfortable
at
events
where
documentarians
are
filming
and
interviewing
when
they
know
why
the
filming
is
happening
and
how
it
will
be
used.
When
introducing
an
event,
share
this
information
with
the
audience
and
invite
them
to
get
involved
in
the
interviews
and
let
them
know
how
they
can
use
your
video
after
the
event
as
well.
Get
the
blessing
of
community
members
before
you
begin
filming.
Carrying
image
release
forms
allow
you
to
formally
recognize
this
permission
whenever
an
opportunity
to
film
arises.
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4. Have
fun
–
and
don’t
let
the
technology
get
in
the
way.
The
very
act
of
creating
video
is
a
shared
experience.
Try
to
be
part
of
it
even
if
you
are
holding
the
camera
–
the
craft
of
video
is
more
about
understanding
than
using
the
technology
so
let
the
camera
be
a
bridge
and
not
a
barrier.
Conclusion
Video
has
helped
us
to
be
better
listeners,
more
inclusive
community
engagers,
and
better
learners
about
the
change
processes
of
which
we
are
a
part.
As
producers
of
video,
we
have
become
more
aware
of
how
stories
are
shaped
and
told,
the
language
that
diverse
stakeholders
use
to
communicate,
inspire,
and
take
action,
and
the
impact
that
this
powerful
medium
can
generate.
As
we
continue
integrate
this
visual
and
auditory
medium
into
our
work,
we
expect
it
will
become
the
norm
rather
than
the
exception
in
the
ever-‐more
more
transparent,
networked,
and
socially-‐mediated
world
of
public
policy
2.0.
Where to find us:
(People)
Kristin
Wolff:
kwolff@skilledwork.org
(@kristinwolff)
Melodee
Hagensen:
mhagensen@skilledwork.org
(@melodeekay)
(Websites,
blogs)
www.skilledwork.org
www.startgrowtransform.org
www.ifawired.org/
www.wetoo.org/
(Video)
www.youtube.com/user/Co4Skilled
vimeo.com/user343070
(Twitter)
@skilledwork_org
@wetoo
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