Fruit Bat Video
This video shows some artistic documenting through the video medium. Sedlock mentioned she is going to take a student back to the Philippines with her who is a film studies major and plans to do a documentary.
~maybe they can come up with something better?
Combining fields of study into a major research project, whether in the political sciences or natural sciences, can both be explained to the public through video, photography, or literary media. Art is a tool for communicating the academic topics assisted by other artistic, and creative values. Catching bats, interviewing journalists, studying anatomy, the front page story, or acting out a play for HIV awareness and teen pregnancy. All art forms catch the world's attention and expand it to be something that becomes top priority. Thanks to the art world we can see and hear overseas, we can understand how a bird flies, measure the way the body works, and listen to what nature has to say. Da Vinci was a scientific artist whose work was influenced by the other world, so he also demonstrates how influences may work both ways.
Jodi said she was taking Tom Coben along. I know him and have talked to him about videos before. I think he will be really good at that sort of immersion in documentary. IN that environment, you have to get some amazing footage, I think the difficulty will only be in selecting what they want to use and how to present it. I think that the Da Vinci connection is a good perspective to view artists where this sort of cross discipline and passion is still relevant.
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ReplyDeleteYour own project is somewhat documentative. What do you see as the purpose of this documentation?
Prof. Sedlock’s scientific drawings serve an obvious function— Apart from the political messages in your project have you considered the purpose and function of your video. Will you show the video on different occasions after our end of the term screening (where)?
The project is very interesting and I am curious what you and Zenabu plan for the future of the work.
The purpose of our video is to send a message that is frank and blunt about how media in America and Africa, both, contain unrealistic accounts of each other.
ReplyDeleteThe interviewees' perceptions are not misconceptions but first hand accounts, so our attempt is to regain a sense of truth about each of these regions of the world, through the multicultural atmosphere at Lawrence. This may just be a beginning.
I have no idea if we will show it beyond Intra Arts ~ maybe in a portfolio someday ;-)
Your project seems important for now and your are making the most of the resources and opinions you can gather here in this somewhat All-American place!
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