Month of March was very important as it was the test of our first output i.e. Film on water issue “Jal Dhara Jeevan Dhara”.
Training in Screening and Public Speaking
Month started with a 3 day’s training of CPs in screening and public speaking. Yashodhara from Akshara, Mumbai. Drishti Media Collective, our partner in CVU coordinated this training session. In these 3 days Yashodhara explained them about how to organize people, how to introduce themselves and the CVU, how to conclude and follow-ups with the volunteers. She also discussed about screening forms, screening techniques and screening feedback.
It was wonderful learning experience for cps to have yashodhara to understand the whole process of screening. Yashodhara was also present for first day screening which was done at Madarsa in Idgah basti.
The First Day of Screening
10th March2010, the first day of screening of CVU film. It was great experience for CPs because they were going first time to handle such big audience. Along with CPs, Akshay, Richa, Meenakshi and Yashodhara were also present there. We chose a Madarsa in Idgaah basti as a screening point.
Team reached at 11.30 AM at the screening point. Setting up of equipment started at 12.30 PM. Initially the set up was at wrong place. It took some time to arrange it. Audience started coming from 01.00 PM. Volunteers of Idgaah; Md Saleem and Yunus along with other volunteers helped in managing the people. Head of the Madarsa helped us in providing table, chair, dari and very important electricity. As no. of children was much, it caused some problem in making them silent. Meenu and Khalil started making announcements. Yashodhara and Akshay helped them in making children silent by engaging them in counting. Rahul and Seema were making observations. Rajesh and Abhishek took charge of arranging the set up and logistics. Due to small place crowd management was an issue.Few ladies were standing behind but as the film started, they sat down.
Team had a good amount of discussion with the audience. After first screening in day time, yashodhara suggested some more point to look out while screening but she was very satisfied with the performance by cps. Yashodhara acclaimed that audience gathered were so interested in film and were taking part in discussion.
The very same day we had our second screening in Idgaah basti at Khairun ka Chauk. (This place doesn’t have any name but we recognized this place with the name of a supporter who lives there and the screening point is in front of her house.)
Something different took place there, as after screening Khairun got annoyed coz she wanted her interview in the film that was edited. She was convinced by Meenakshi, Meenu and Richa. Finally she got agreed to make a group of ladies to harvest rain water. She will inform us as they wanted training for rain water harvesting. In this screening women were more active and participating.
Till date 21 screenings has been done in all 4 bastis (Idgaah, purani basti, Bandha basti and Jawahar Nagar basti) and expectedly we have reached to 1900-2000 people. Volunteer’s number has been increased after screening.
Parveen Baji in Bandha Basti said she would like implement the solutions shown in film and many people said if Aaina TV give them support then they can take initiative to harvest rain water.
Screening is totally new concept for cps but through it they learnt many new things like public speaking, equipment arrangement, audience analysis and discussion and it is developing ownership in them.
Helping hands:
We thank Muskaan Road safety foundation for lending us Screen, Volunteers; Yunus, Imran, Nitin, Mahesh, Guddu, Rani, Waheedan , Ajay, Gangadhar who gave us amplifier speakers and Volunteers; Liyakat, Dayas, Ikram, Salma, Bindu, Islamuddin, Nadeem, Karan, Bablu, Rafiq, Saleem, Malti, Waheedan, Ajay, Hanuman, Suman, Vijyendra, Mitthu, Omprakash who provided us electricity supply for screenings.
Challenges faced during screening:
Amplifier and speaker were big challenges for us because we do not have them and every time our lots of time and energy were used only in managing these equipments. Sometimes team couldn’t coordinate well with the volunteers and their inner conflicts also came out.
Follow ups with Volunteers:
We have conducted “Active Citizenship” sessions with the volunteers of each Basti. Amreen, our YFD intern, facilitated these sessions with the help of CVU team.
Production of Second film
Second CVU film is based on the issue of Road Safety. During screening cps are in morning doing research for next film on road safety. Some stories have been found in communities and data from police and medical authorities through RTI has been collected, some data our partner NGO Muskaan provided us. Outline script had been sent to Drishti for suggestions.
More in March:
CPs are using pravah’s library for reading book .We have started daily morning meeting discussions to enhance thinking process and knowledge.
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