ABSTRACT:
This paper is an exploratory study in nature, analyses the change in the lives of the adolescent community video producers and implications of Videoactive Girls (VAG) a Participatory Video (PV) project in urban development setting. The story of hundreds of such adolescent girls was also no different until Mahita, an NGO that works in the slums of old city area of Hyderabad hit upon an idea of providing alternative skills to such girls. The central part of the study consists of video training process, implications of PV use, dialogue process of various stakeholders and making of the videos, which led to some dynamic process of learning and making the Community Video Producers (CVPs) confident. The essential idea is that observer into the phenomenon in its natural state or in-situ.