Week 3: Lindsey Newkirk

In looking at the work plan for this weeks assignment, I was drawn to the sentence “These approaches (stories) reveal deep relationship-building over time — skills that documentary filmmakers and community-based artists have been developing for decades, and are now taking online to mix old and new methodologies.” I realized I wasn’t familiar with the […]

October 16th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Assignments, Week 3 | 2 comments

Week 2: Jarratt Taylor’s Response To Readings/Viewings

One of the more powerful aspects of sites like EngageMedia and Witness is the way in which they make filmmaking/mediamaking accessible. Access to training and the tools to produce media are the major barriers when it comes to video production. I think about my own experience of coming to filmmaking. I went to a one […]

October 10th, 2013 | Tags: , , | Category: Week 2 | Leave a comment

Week 2: Lindsey Newkirk Response to Readings

As Kelley Matheson pointed out in her TEDx talk “Witness Your Environment”, the thought behind Witness’s goals is that “If we could hear people’s stories it would create empathy and create meaningful change”. My curiosity is how different strategic approaches to the videos accomplish this. Since we don’t have access to those strategies (audience, goals, […]

October 10th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Week 2 | Leave a comment

Week 1: Kevin Hartman – Response to Readings/Videos

I made the mistake of powering through all of the reading and the videos and now find myself swimming in the deep end of the thought pool.

First, the videos and article on Scribe video and Precious Places. As a videographer I was incredibly inspired by this initiative. When we discuss transmedia and the impact […]

October 4th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Week 1 | 8 comments
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