Video: Balkan elections in a nutshell

We created a draft video for BiH citizens to get acquainted with the Bosnian election process. We prepared the script, timed it, developed the storyboard and mocked it up in 53 frames. You can find the jpegs of the frames on github.

We then recorded the frames with voice over to serve as template for designers to develop the real video.

Total time: 4.5 hours

Persons: 3

Tools used:

• brains
• markers (red and black, and purple for Brcko)
• A4 papers
• a smartphone for video

###To do:

• develop professionally
• translate (and adapt frames with text)

##View video here

##Script:

Text	Visual	Time
This is Bosnia and Herzegovina. It resides in the heart of the Balkans. It is 1 country, made of 2 entities, hosting 3 major ethnicities, electing 5 presidents, split into 8 general electoral units, overlapping 10 cantons, managed by 14 governments… and then there’s Brčko.	1. Country outline 2. W/ heart superimposed 3. Country outline 4. W/ Entities 5. W/ ethnicities areas mapped 6. W/ 5 small busts 7. W/ electoral units 8. W/ cantons 9. W/ 14 amphitheatres 10. W/ Brcko saying HI	20
How does it work?	11. Question mark	3
In general elections, all citizens elect the state Presidency and the national parliament’s House of Representatives.	12. W/ 3 busts 13. W/ parliament icon	8
The State Presidency is in charge of international relations and defense. It proposes the prime minister, directs international policy, and appoints ambassadors.	14. three busts 15. added politician 16. added globe 17. added scroll	10
The national parliament’s House of Representatives creates national laws, controls state budget, and confirms the prime minister and cabinet.	18. parliament. 19. added scroll 20. added money 21. added politician	10
The national parliament’s other half is the House of Peoples. It isn’t elected directly and can overrule any national law.	22. parliament 23. added another smaller parliament 24. put influence arrows black to red	5
Bosnia and Herzegovina is composed of two entities: Republika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia i Herzegovina. Each entity has its own government, budget and laws.	25. empty map 26. W/ RS 27. W/ FBiH 28. W/ parliament, money and scroll for each entity	10
If you are a resident of Republika Srpska, you vote for the president, two vice-presidents, and the Republika Srpska parliament	29 W/ One big bust, two smaller busts, parliament	10
The Republika Srpska president can propose laws, grant amnesty to convicted criminals, and dissolve the parliament.	30. W/ Big bust 31. Added Scroll with question mark 32. open lock 33. a broken parliament	10
The Republika Srpska parliament creates laws, manages the budget, elects government officials, and appoints members to the House of Peoples.	34. Smaller parliament 35. + a scroll with an exclamation point 36. + money 37. + politician 38. like 24 with 5 small busts	10
If you’re from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, you elect members of the Federation House of Representatives, and members of your Canton parliament	39. Main parliament 40. Bunch of smaller parliaments
The House of Representatives creates laws, manages the budget, and chooses the Federation president.	41. Parliament in black 42. + a scroll 43. + money 44. + a bust	10
The Canton parliaments appoint the cantonal government, create cantonal laws, and choose delegates for the Federation parliament’s upper house — which in turn appoints members to the House of Peoples.	45. Canton (black) parliament 46. + arch 47. + a scroll 48.Two different parliament + an arrow and a few little black busts 49. Like 38 and two rows of both black and then red busts	10
If you reside in Brčko (hey!), you choose the entity you want to vote in. Your vote is then counted in that entity’s closest electoral unit.	50. Brcko coloured. “Hey”! 51. Two voting boxes, one in red and one in black
Bosnia and Herzegovina annually spends 50% of its GDP on administration, which means your vote counts a lot.	52. Money 53. “your vote counts a lot”	3