Guide to producing a Best Practices Video

INTRODUCTION:
The Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme (BLP) is committed to documenting and disseminating successful initiatives which improve our living environment. Ten of these initiatives will be awarded the 2002 Dubai International Award for Best Practices in improving the Living Environment.

The aim of the Award is to identify solutions to critical social economic and environmental problems. At the same time the Award is designed to document best practices in different media, print and audio/visual, so that they can become part of a larger knowledge base on strategies for sustainable development.

The audio/visual documentation of best practices is undertaken with a view to further raising public awareness of these examples, through broadcast television and through other audio-visual media such as VHS video and delivery on the Internet. Given the multiple uses of such audio-visual documentation, it is important that the material should be of optimum quality both technically and substantively.

This document sets out guidelines to help participants produce video programmes about their initiative and is organised as follows:

• Production Specifications
• Production Strategy
• Annex 1: Technical Quality and Specifications
• Annex 2: Production Quality
• Annex 3: Script Guidelines and Briefing

• Form For Overall Script Briefing and Sample Form
• Form for Sequence Briefing and Sample Form

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions regarding these guidelines:
Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme
UN-Habitat
P.O. Box 30030
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254 20) 623029/ 624981
Fax: (254 20) 623080/ 624266
Email: bestpractices@unhabitat.org