KEY DISCUSSION POINTS IS IT SAFE TO SHARE YOUR VIDEOS AND WITH WHOM? DECISION #1: IS IT SAFE TO SHARE YOUR FOOTAGE? Assessing safety risks should happen both before and after filming a human rights incident. After filming, review the footage to determine whether or not anyone depicted in the video could be endangered if certain people saw the video. Would you (or the videographer if it was someone else) be at risk if it were known that you filmed the situation? Would you be at risk if your involvement in distributing the video were revealed? Again, this will be a judgment call that only you can make. DECISION #2: SHARE PUBLICLY OR PRIVATELY? If there are risks involved in sharing the video, consider only sharing it privately with trusted individuals or organizations such as allied human rights organizations, investigators or attorneys. If there are no foreseeable risks and you want to make the footage accessible to as many people as possible, follow the tips below to share video effectively on an online video-hosting platform such as YouTube. SHARING PUBLICLY GOALS If you decide it’s safe – and strategic – to share the video clips online, follow these basic practices so that: • A journalist, researcher or investigator is able to search, find, understand and verify your videos; and • The online platform you are using understands that the video contains informative human rights content and will be less likely to take down the video. 69 VIDEO AS EVIDENCE: BASIC PRACTICES V 1.0 BASIC PRACTICES PART FOUR: SHARE YOUR VIDEO