Frag den Staat | Camera Libre

(click on CC for English subtitles)

Frag den Staat (Ask the State) is a website for submitting, tracking and archiving Freedom Of Information requests in Germany- making it easier and more efficient for citizens to ask their public authorities for information.

Software:

Animated with Synfig, a vector-based 2D Free Software program. Initial vector illustrations were created in Inkscape, the video was assembled in Kdenlive, and audio was mixed in Audacity.

The project files are open source, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license, so that any other Freedom of Information site (such as those run on Alaveteli or FROIDE) can adapt, remix and improve the video for their own language and location.

Fork the project on Gitlab!

Example scene adapted to a British context – with colors adjusted to fit the palette of the site ‘WhatDoTheyKnow‘ and text, logos etc adapted to a British context.

Section of the Hungarian version of the video, showing the first scene inside a government building

Hungarian version – soon to be launched on KiMitTud – ‘inside government’ scene

Animated seuqence of the Hungarian version of the video, showing the in-browser scene

Hungarian Version – Browser scene

Credits & Attribution

Video
CC-BY Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V

Concept, Illustration & Animation:
Sam Muirhead | @cameralibre

Additional Illustration:
Judith Carnaby | @judithcarnaby

Text:
Maria Reimer | @malienamadrina
Stefan Wehrmeyer | @stefanwehrmeyer

Stimme & Aufnahme / Voiceover & recording:
Fiona Krakenbürger | @arduina

Music:
XXV CC-BY Broke For Free | @brokeforfree

Toneffekte/Sound Effects:

The following sound effects can be found on FreeSound.org, a community of audio enthusiasts who create, share and remix sounds – the majority of these sounds are available under libre licenses such as Creative Commons Attribution, Attribution ShareAlike or the ‘no rights reserved’ public domain mark, CC0.
Check out the artists’ other sounds, or consider contributing yourself!

Sounds used under Creative Commons Attribution:

letter-box.flac CC-BY qubodup
peugot-206-car-exterior-engine-stationary-horn-claxon-reverb.wav CC-BY jorickhoofd
spring-door-stop.wav CC-BY liamq
deep-air-woosh.wav CC-BY cosmicmembers
whoosh.wav CC-BY ztrees1
envelope-handling-rustle-vtkproductions.wav CC-BY vtkproductions-com
chev-350-start-then-die.wav CC-BY lonemonk
flashlight-switch.wav CC-BY jesabat
stickwhoosh.wav CC-BY plingativator
vent-wind-1.wav CC-BY glaneur-de-sons
writing-with-pen.aif CC-BY jasonelrod
clock-fastticking.wav CC-BY firefreak
scanner-5.wav CC-BY the-bizness
woosh-02.wav CC-BY glaneur-de-sons
t-driveby-backin.mp3 CC-BY roscoetoon