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By: Alfredo Cohen<\/span><\/p>\n

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Emotion is the impulse that induces action. Everyone knows that video is currently the format par excellence for transmitting emotions. Every day 3,000 million videos are seen on Youtube and the same amount is uploaded to Facebook every month. It is necessary to connect with new sensibilities, new languages and new times of citizens. Organizations or people who do not understand this paradigm shift will remain outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

At elParlante we understand that this type of narrative allows us to tell stories and, even more importantly, that those who produce them are taken into consideration. For Rodr\u00edguez (2010), telling one’s own story allows recognition and therefore helps to build what we are, that is, it helps to have us and to be taken into account. Regardless of whether you are a group, a company or a citizen, explaining to be recognized is not a minor issue in a globalized and fragmented world. <\/span><\/p>\n

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In this sense, in elParlante we make two types of video:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The <\/span>participatory video <\/b> As a result of our co-creation projects in which a group of people are sensitized and motivated to create a piece collectively that generates reflection \/ criticism \/ dialogue on a social theme that is significant to them. The videos resulting from this process will serve as pedagogical material so that the filmmakers themselves (young people, the elderly, women, students, teachers…) can sensitize the communities to which they belong.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    “(The video) pressures, incites, seduces those who use it to undertake processes of symbolic creation. When you have a microphone in your hand or look at it through a video camera, the same technology encourages you to direct the microphone towards the environment, to look at the world through the viewfinder of the camera. Technology itself makes us artisans of sounds and images, of symbolic products, and it is precisely here where other ways of seeing the environment and imagining the future can emerge. That is, it is through the reconfiguration of signs from where collective imaginaries, alternative versions of territory and new utopias are generated to shape the future”. (Clemency Rodriguez, 2011: 46)<\/span><\/p>\n

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    This is an example of the many participatory video projects carried out by elParlante. Barribook TV, made in 2012 in the district of Horta-Guinard\u00f3<\/span><\/p>\n