Hi Rick
It's an interesting question. How you evaluate something depends on
what it is you were trying to change. I think a danger we run with PV
is that in order to meet the demands of funders, research councils,
ethics committees etc we end up identifying and measuring change in
the participants (ie it makes them 'better citizens' in some way) when
the purpose of PV is for the films that participants make to bring
about change in society, by 'speaking truth to power'.
I don't know if this has any bearing on your question, but it's
something that is causing me some problems in my project using PV in
dementia care (we spoke briefly about this at the Visual Methods
conference a couple of years ago).
Andrea Capstick
Quoting Catcher Media <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi PV-ers
>
> I wondered if you might be able to offer us any advice or pointers
> on a certain subject:
>
> We'd like to sharpen our evaluation practise when using PV with
> young people, and also on arts/health-related projects with young
> people.
>
> We already do baseline questionnaires, and track progress using
> video to conduct peer-to-peer interviews and semi-formal interviews.
> We have do go back to groups/ commissioners after a period of time
> to track outputs and outcomes.
>
> The other aspect is that the projects very often have little or no
> evaluation time built in and normally have small teams that are
> already thinly spread so we'd like to develop a method of evaluation
> projects that is proportionate to the project undertaken...
>
> We want to do the evaluation for our own practise, but also to try
> and get across the benefits of PV to potential clients/stakeholders.
>
> - any ideas out there?
>
> Rick Goldsmith
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