YouPrompt Workshop with Catrine & Olaf Val

19.09.2009

YouPrompt essentially consists of an Internet platform. The basic idea relates to prompting young people to slip into the roles of famous and powerful personalities, so as to copy the public speeches of politicians, pop stars, top sportsmen etc., in the form of karaoke that has also been filmed. The models for this can found in countless video clips on YouTube. By using a teleprompter the speeches can easily be imitated and recorded. At the end of the workshop the videos could be taken home or published on the internet.

The workshop participants were asked to consider the approach of those who they wish to impersonate and the promises they imply, as well as the media processes that are involved.

For teenagers from 16 to 20 years.