Translations with Father Charlie: The Making of the Video
by Al Giordano Sunday, Mar. 07, 2010 at 2:20 AM
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Charlie Hardy is a former Catholic priest, Wyoming native, residing for the past 25 years in Venezuela, and three-time participant in the School of Authentic Journalism. The variety of online videos coming out of the 2010 Narco News School of Authentic Journalism ranges from the deadly serious (as with the Torture in Egypt video that we premiered last week) to the humorous one we now unveil: Translations with Father Charlie. As part of our continuing series on “The Making of the Video” I asked Katie Halper to share her notes on how this video was made and what she learned in the process.

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Father Charlie has mastered the art of saying a lot in a small window of time (brevity is next to godliness, we try to teach our professors; some get that better than others) and so on Sunday morning February 7, in Mérida, Yucatán, when Charlie said he had a five minute presentation on how English language media often abuses the translation process when reporting from Spanish-speaking countries, I confidently gave him the floor.

His presentation was, as you will see in the video, a big hit, and it occurred to 2010 authentic journalism Scholar Katie Halper of New York that its content would be ideal for a viral video; that is, a video that could go “viral” or replicate widely throughout the Internet.

Katie took the initiative and leadership on producing the video, with strong assists from 2010 scholar Edwin Reed-Sanchez and professor (and 2004 graduate) Gregory Berger. Here is the result:

* Read the article and view the short video at http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3821/translations-father-charlie-making-video

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School Poster
by Al Giordano Sunday, Mar. 07, 2010 at 2:20 AM
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