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22

01

2008

Proposition for the Babel Day video

Objectives

  • Cafe Babel Birthday
  • Show network faces
  • Show babelian places in Europe
  • Show multilingual aspects of network

Concept

In each city where cafebabel.com is present, we will produce a 3 minutes video casting the different members of local teams and asking them “Cafebabel.com is turning 7, but what makes cafebabel.com so different?”
Answers of babelians should be short and in English (slogan, statements) and should be made in illustrative babelian city places in Europe.
At the end, all Babelians will say in their language:

  • happy birthday cafebabel.com
  • In (my city), I read cafebabel.com in (my language)

The Montage will be a compilation of all the individuals’ interviews showing the faces and voices of members of cafebabel.com local teams. They will be put together and end up with the happy birthday or the “In Berlin, I read cafebabel.com in German” (we don’t know yet)

The montage will be made by Brussel’s team, and should be as dynamic as possible (with music if we find some!)

How to do your video?

You need:

  • Camera
  • Microphone (if possible separated)

Please do not use mobile phones (quality often sucks!)
Please send us the video in the avi or mpeg at 640x480 resolution!

Find a babelian place

a place where young people and Erasmus students go, not tourists, a place which is inspiring and well known in your city! But try to find a place which is not to noisy, especially from cars!

Examples

  • In Paris : place Beaubourg, in front of the the Museum of Modern Art (Pompidu)
  • In Berlin: Alexanderplatz
  • In Brussels: place du Luxembourg

It’s up to you to find the right place!

Get members of your network together
In every city gather members of your local team.
1 to 10 persons, it doesn’t matter. The more people you have, the funnier!
You can have people with different accents, it’s great! Girls and boys are welcome!
Ask each individual the following question and have him reply in 1 short statement in English

  • What makes cafebabel.com different?

Ask them to tell in their original language:

  • happy birthday cafebabel.com
  • In (my city), I read cafebabel.com in (my language)

Please think in advance about what you’re going to say. And try to be the most original! We will show the first name of the people and the name of the city!

Shoot the video and send it to Babel Bruxelles

Deadlines

Please try to do the shooting during the weekend!
We ask all teams to send us the video contribution until Tuesday 29th January at 10 am

We will do a selection of the best contributions for the video and show the final result on 1st February on coffeefactory!

04

01

2008

Brainstorming for Babel Day celebration!

Every 1st of February, there is something very important in cafebabel’s life: its our birthday! Remember, the first version of cafebabel.com was launched by Erasmus students in Strasbourg on 1st February 2001. That was the birth of cafebabel.com as the first European online media!

Now, it has become a tradition: every 1st of February, all the network of cafebabel.com gets together, thinks together to imagine an original way to celebrate our birthday.

What are we going to do in 2008? What are your ideas? How can we make this an intense babelian moment?

Here are a bunch of ideas that came up when I asked you about your ideas:

  • Organizing an event in Second life! Why about a photography exhibition? Check out some nice pictures we have made of some Babelians in 2005.
  • Organizing a video event from all Babelians in Europe! What if we would collect videos of Babelians wishing happy birthday to cafe babel?
  • Organizing a flash mob series in Europe! This was Erika’s idea from our Vilnius team. Erika, do you want to give more details about that?

Any other ideas?

It’s easy – come and join us on our Skype conference on Wednesday January 9th at 6 pm! All you have to do is to register by email to Monika. We invite you also to write a short comment to this posting, for any other feedback.

Here are the pictures of some Babelians in 2005:

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2 R UMAX     PowerLook III    V1.7 [4]