making media ethnography: a 10-minute documentary film due week ten.
Using auto/ethnographic methods of interviews, artifact analysis, description, storytelling, and analysis, investigate the media-making practices of one community via filmed, edited interviews with 3 of its members. Incorporates the relevant scholarship we have read together on communities, ethnography, and making media. Also presents background research presented in the form of voice over narration to introduce, conclude, and generally make sense of the interviews.
Questions to discuss: how is the group constituted, what counts as making media, do we focus on individuals or the group, do we talk about race and gender, what constitutes analysis, what comprises the 10 minutes in the movie, can we skype the interviews, do we have to be a member of the group, how long will the raw interviews be, can we film the group in action.
This is a midterm project and consists of multiple steps:
--research-referential proposal of 300 words
--interview prep including a an informed rationale of interview methods, plus notes, and logistics; ---filmed and edited interviews (using imovie);
--scripted voice over containing research-referential storytelling and analysis to serve as introduction, conclusion, and segues in your movie (you will learn how to write a shooting script for this)
--publish your film to Youtube and embed it in a weebly site with a 300-word discussion to serve as commentary/introduction.
--Your movie website will include links to the following materials:
--filming scripts
--critical mini-essays about the related scholarship
--bios of your subjects along with their own words/reactions to your film
--other relevant material that did not make it to the final cut
--all of this in a visually engaging, easily navigable website
your movie website should contain:
1 --splash page : this will contain the embedded youtube player eventually showing your final cut movie with a brief introduction by you (3 sentences). Right now just include placeholder language.
2 --proposal
3 --script and any storyboarding you may do
4 2 critical mini-essays
5 --subject bios with quotes from subjects about the movie
optional:
6--outtakes/other material
7-any external links (e.g. to another movie or source) (or these could be embedded in the mini essay if appropriate)
8--artifact image: this may not be a separate page but just a background or header image, or alternatively, multiple artifact photos used for multiple backgrounds/headers/images on different pages
Using auto/ethnographic methods of interviews, artifact analysis, description, storytelling, and analysis, investigate the media-making practices of one community via filmed, edited interviews with 3 of its members. Incorporates the relevant scholarship we have read together on communities, ethnography, and making media. Also presents background research presented in the form of voice over narration to introduce, conclude, and generally make sense of the interviews.
Questions to discuss: how is the group constituted, what counts as making media, do we focus on individuals or the group, do we talk about race and gender, what constitutes analysis, what comprises the 10 minutes in the movie, can we skype the interviews, do we have to be a member of the group, how long will the raw interviews be, can we film the group in action.
This is a midterm project and consists of multiple steps:
--research-referential proposal of 300 words
--interview prep including a an informed rationale of interview methods, plus notes, and logistics; ---filmed and edited interviews (using imovie);
--scripted voice over containing research-referential storytelling and analysis to serve as introduction, conclusion, and segues in your movie (you will learn how to write a shooting script for this)
--publish your film to Youtube and embed it in a weebly site with a 300-word discussion to serve as commentary/introduction.
--Your movie website will include links to the following materials:
--filming scripts
--critical mini-essays about the related scholarship
--bios of your subjects along with their own words/reactions to your film
--other relevant material that did not make it to the final cut
--all of this in a visually engaging, easily navigable website
your movie website should contain:
1 --splash page : this will contain the embedded youtube player eventually showing your final cut movie with a brief introduction by you (3 sentences). Right now just include placeholder language.
2 --proposal
3 --script and any storyboarding you may do
4 2 critical mini-essays
5 --subject bios with quotes from subjects about the movie
optional:
6--outtakes/other material
7-any external links (e.g. to another movie or source) (or these could be embedded in the mini essay if appropriate)
8--artifact image: this may not be a separate page but just a background or header image, or alternatively, multiple artifact photos used for multiple backgrounds/headers/images on different pages