With those experiences I understood
that the thing that I have to target is ignorance, the problem is
misinformation or bad information, nothing else. But now that I had the
information, how could I do that?! I still was not sure until I got a statistic
class, which was all maths, but my professor, who was a great one, was very
innovative, he made us to produce a video for our final project. Since I was a
programmer in Iran, learning how to work with a new computer programs was not
hard at all, and it was motivating. So I made my first video for him, it was
easy and not that bad.
At the same time that I was
learning to produce videos, I was searching and browsing in internet to learn
more about Iran, what I got from that, and from TV, was that most of the videos
and TV programs and news about Iran were all negative. And the main sources of
information for so many people are those, so to change their ideas I had to
target that. In those days, YouTube was growing and getting popular, but most
of clips about Iran again were negative. So now I had the information, I had
the knowledge, and I had the proper means of communication to transform those
realities.
I knew it’s a very hard thing to
do, and to manage, where should I begin? What is the structure? What should I
put in it and etc? As always I trusted the information that I gathered from
people I have seen, and of course I trusted my gut. To find the best structure
of it, I checked out useful sites that inform us about countries, for example
Wikipedia, it is very useful, and the structure is great, so I decided to
structure my videos close to the structure of Wikipedia. I put introduction,
culture, and unique things (extra information that cannot be in Culture nor in
Introduction). But something was missing, yes I had to talk about nowadays of
Iran too, so I named the last part :”today of Iran”, which unlike the other
parts, were presenting mostly photos of Iranians nowadays, and the cities and
etc, rather than information. In all of those parts I found Iranian music to complement
those information, to make the video more friendly and interesting.
So first I had to find the raw and
useful data, photos and music, I found over thousands of photos, and a great
deal of information and music. First, I complied the information mostly based
on the wrong ideas about Iran, and then based on that information; I found the
proper photos, and music. These all took me almost a year, and the last part
which was the easiest part was producing the video, which took me almost 5-6
months. In all of those time, I was very
energetic and thoughtful, I made all of them from scratch, I saw some people
cried over it, some were very proud, and some ashamed, those strong emotions showed
me that I made the right choice.
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