Volunteer Documentary Videographer (Field Storytelling)

Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. is a survivor-led organisation building a platform for truth-telling, accountability, and community healing. Our work centres the voices of people who have been ignored, silenced, or left behind by existing systems.
We are developing a podcast and documentary storytelling platform that seeks to give space to real human experiences — particularly stories connected to childhood trauma, survival, resilience, and social neglect.
We are seeking a Volunteer Documentary Videographer to accompany the founder one Saturday per month in and around London to record conversations with members of the public — particularly those who are homeless or facing hardship — who wish to share their stories.
This is not a conventional videography role.
This is ethical storytelling and community witnessing.
 
About the Role
As Documentary Videographer, you will accompany the founder on monthly field recording days across London to capture authentic, respectful interviews and conversations with people willing to speak about their lived experiences.
These stories will contribute to:
• The organisation’s podcast
• Documentary storytelling projects
• Survivor awareness work
• Educational and advocacy media
Your role is to capture these stories sensitively, respectfully, and responsibly, ensuring participants are treated with dignity and consent.
This is not sensationalist media.
This is truth-telling and human storytelling.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Accompany the founder on one Saturday per month across London to record interviews and conversations.
• Film interviews with members of the public who choose to share their stories.
• Capture high-quality audio and video suitable for podcast and documentary use.
• Ensure participants understand they are being recorded and give informed consent.
• Maintain respectful and trauma-aware communication with vulnerable individuals.
• Assist with framing, lighting, and location setup during recordings.
• Work alongside the podcast production team to organise footage.
• Share recorded media securely with the editing team.
• Help ensure stories are captured ethically and responsibly.
• Follow safeguarding and ethical storytelling guidelines.
• Represent the organisation professionally during public engagement.

 
What This Role Requires
Experience or developing competence in:
• Videography
• Documentary filming
• Interview-style filming
• Basic audio capture
Ability to film in public, outdoor environments.
Comfort speaking with people from diverse and vulnerable backgrounds.
Sensitivity when hearing difficult or traumatic stories.
Reliability and commitment to the monthly recording schedule.
Ability to work respectfully in unpredictable real-world environments.
Willingness to follow safeguarding, ethical storytelling, and consent procedures.
Preferred equipment:
Applicants should ideally have access to a small portable filming setup suitable for street interviews, such as:
• Mirrorless camera or equivalent capable of recording high-quality video
• Wireless lavalier microphone system (two microphones preferred)
• Lightweight tripod or stabiliser
• Basic portable lighting (optional)
• Spare batteries and memory cards
Equivalent setups, including high-quality smartphone filming with professional microphones, will also be considered.
 
Formal qualifications are not required. Equivalent experience or demonstrable ability is acceptable.
 
What This Role Offers You
A founding role in a mission-driven documentary storytelling project.
Real-world experience filming human stories and social realities.
Opportunities to contribute to:
• Podcast production
• Documentary storytelling
• Social impact media
• National and international travel
• knowledge and understanding about the realities of our societies 

Experience working within a survivor-led organisation.
Creative collaboration with writers, editors, and podcast producers.
Credit on published podcast/YouTube and documentary content.
Priority consideration for future paid roles as the C.I.C. becomes financially sustainable.
A chance to help bring unheard voices into public conversation.
 
What This Role Is Not For
People looking for a quick portfolio project.
Those uncomfortable speaking with vulnerable individuals.
Anyone seeking sensational or exploitative content.
People unwilling to commit to the organisation’s ethical storytelling approach.
Those seeking immediate paid work.
 
Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. exists to create spaces where people can finally speak the truth about what they have lived through.
The stories we capture will not always be easy to hear — but they are necessary.

If you believe storytelling can be a tool for awareness, dignity, and change — and you want to help document voices that are rarely listened to — this role offers a place to commit your skills to something meaningful.
Join us in helping to record the stories that society too often ignores.