BASIC PRACTICES KEY POINTS INDICATE THAT THE VIDEO INCLUDES HUMAN RIGHT IMAGERY If the footage is graphic then include, “Graphic Human Rights Imagery” in the video’s title. This will: • Alert viewers that the video may be violent or disturbing, and • Alert the online platform that the video clip may contain valuable human rights footage. Without this warning, YouTube and other platforms may remove the video for violating their community guidelines that prohibit users from posting shocking, sensational or disrespectful content that has no public value. STEP 3 Tag Again, repeat the date, time, specific location, city and country then add words that describe the content. For example words like: “human rights”, “eviction”, ”arrest”, “excessive force”, “shelling”, “protest”, “speech”, “child soldiers”, “checkpoint”, “uniforms”, “oil spill”, “torture” or “refugee”. The tags must be unbiased and factual. KEY POINTS ACCURACY IS ESSENTIAL For more information If you want your videos to be used for evidence, do not add false dates, locations or tags to increase the number of times your video comes up in searches or for any other reason. See the YouTube blog titled “Context Is King: Share Your Story” at: http://bit. ly/ContextIsKing STEP 4 Keep the Original File Video sites such as YouTube are great for sharing videos, but should not be used as a place to save the original copy of a video because: • Videos uploaded to platforms like YouTube are optimized for web streaming, meaning the original video is compressed and stripped of valuable information – the metadata – embedded in the file; • You cannot retrieve your original file from sites like YouTube once it has been uploaded it because only the copy that was optimized for web streaming will be available; and • YouTube and sites like it can take your footage down without your permission. 71 VIDEO AS EVIDENCE: BASIC PRACTICES V 1.0