Training
We
have used video as a medium for training people in different
sectors, including
(i) Junior Engineers attempting to work with local communities
and
(ii) fresh staff recruits to Fab India, one of India's
largest fabric/garment companies.
A
Partnership for Construction (1997)
Client / Financial Support:
Education Consultants India Ltd.
Duration:
20 minutes
A
training film for junior engineers, set in Haryana, training
them in the techniques of constructing primary school
buildings, using cost-effective constructive technologies.
A unique experiment in that local communities were organized
as Village Development Committees (VDCs) which had entered
into a collabortion with government junior engineers,
thus ensuring efficency in construction and transparency
in financial transcactions.
Fab India Training Capsules
(2001)
Client / Financial Support: Fab India
Duration: 50 mts
Fab
India is one of India's foremost garment producing companies.
In the process of expanding its outlets across the country,
Fab India asked us to produce training capsules to be
used to train fresh recruits.
We
produced a series of seven capsules on themes ranging
from vegetable dyes, block printing, weaving and the importance
of yarn counts. A key objective of the films was to document
many of the processes involved with block printing, including
the use of saw dust and cattle dung to screen areas from
dyeing, the use of horse shoes in the imparting of colours
and other such techniques common to fabric processing
in this country - need some more examples. Because many
of these processes are done by hand, inaccuracies are
inherent to the fabrics that Fab India uses. However,
such imperfections enhance the feel of a hand dyed and
hand printed cloth, particularly when contrasted with
the geometrical perfection of a powerloom product.
The films are now used by Fab India to teach fresh recruits
about many of these processes, as well as to provide them
with a better sense of the sources and potential aesthetic
appeal of hand crafted fabric.
