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Our 5 Steps of Adaptive Filmmaking
Put aside your camera to share in daily activities. Waste time together.
Relation
01
Bring out the cameras, share them with your subjects, engage in unstructured play and structured exercises.
Recreation
02
Conduct oral histories, preserving voices, memories, and perspectives of the people around you.
Exploration
03
Choose an emergent story, choose the right medium and genre, assign truth-keeper, roll up your sleeves. It's go time.
Creation
04
Once film is complete, launch impact campaign to create positive impact by enhancing the audience's theory of mind, increasing empathetic accuracy, and expanding audience's circle of belonging.
Sensitization
05
Most of us are familiar with adaptive yoga, but few have heard of adaptive filmmaking, a type of filmmaking that opens up the cinematic arts to more practitioners.
Having spent the last 15 years collaborating with people with intellectual disabilities across 49 countries, McDonald devised a relational method of adaptive filmmaking which is at the heart of Everable's approach.