ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the intentions and reasons behind the films from ALTERNATIVE, how film-making was conceptualized and some of the challenges in general that were faced during the project. It presents participatory film-making as part of research in general in the social sciences. The chapter analyses the complexity of growing practical skills and knowledge in the constructing of films linked to action research as visual and auditory storytelling. It claims that filming in the social sciences is an inescapable part of present-day research and action reality, due to an ever-increasing digitalized and visualized societal worldview in general. The chapter focuses upon visualization as more than shooting a film on a relevant issue. It explains how the ALTERNATIVE filming developed with only partial degrees of informants´ participation in the filming, let alone the researchers' participation – and the reasons and consequences thereof.
