Special Video Projects

Often, organizations that we work with need special types of video and other products that serve individual purposes. In the past, these products have included documentaries that help explain an institute's missions and goals as well as innovative series of connected short videos that delves deep into a complex idea. See below for examples of special video projects that we have done for a range of needs. As with our other offerings, we can work directly with organizations to determine what kind of video projects would best meet their needs.

 

 

Explaining an Organization

Next Agenda produced this video for the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), in order to introduce the organization, its mission, and its big ideas. For this 10-minute long documentary, we crafted a story and to illustrate it used a combination of footage we collected from INET events and other illustrative visual material. We interviewed the institute's top thinkers in order to tell a compelling story and get to the heart of an organization whose aim is to challenge the dominant paradigm in economics today.

 

Creating a Movement

Four Years Go is an organization that is seeking to create fundamental and profound change by mobilizing people around the world. To motivate people into taking decisive action for issues that motivate them, Next Agenda produced this video with the average viewer in mind. We interviewed a variety of people and asked them about what concerned them and what they could do to help - and then edited the footage together in an engaging way.

 

Covering an On-Site Event

Many organizations have meetings or other types of gatherings they need covered, and we have a highly-mobile video team that can do this efficiently. In this case, the Institute for New Economic Thinking needed Next Agenda to cover its executive director Rob Johnson as he visited a graduate program in economics to talk to students and give them information about the institute. We covered the meeting with multiple cameras and then interviewed a number of attendees to convey what happened at the meeting and help INET convey its messages

 

Explaining Complex Ideas

Video is an ideal way to convey ideas that are hard to understand otherwise. For these kinds of videos, we can use live interviews with experts, in combination with graphics, slides, and other visual material to articulate big ideas. In this video, Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur and a MacArthur fellow, in less than five minutes, visually lays out the enormity of the climate change challenge. This only one part of a series that can be found here.

 

Trailers

Next Agenda can also produce cinematic trailer-style video pieces that quickly give an overview of an event. Using fast-paced editing and music can be a stimulating experience for a viewer, and can provide a "tip of the iceberg" experience to invite people to engage other content. We generally can do this as part of immersive gathering, and can use footage and interview material collected while covering the gathering in the trailer. Watch this quick overview of the Breakthrough Institute's "Modernizing Liberalism" conference to get a sense of how trailers work.

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