Technology/Equipment Grant
Technology/Equipment Grant
I am requesting the equipment to drastically improve the quality of my documentary film work.
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director - KUMD; Moira Villiard: visual artist, student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, former Children's Theatre employee.
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My goal with this technology is to improve the execution of the most basic communicative building block in documentary filmmaking - the interview. With a longer battery life for the camera and rig, the subjects' stories and the creative process may proceed uninterrupted, allowing for a more natural story progression. In addition, with improved light and sound quality, the information and stories conveyed by the subject are easier understood by the audience, thereby allowing space for more complex themes to emerge. The goal in any interview is to have the visuals and audio be so well executed that the audience doesn't notice how much work really went into it. While visually important in terms of introducing the audience to a subject, a well-done interview also allows for other more visually expressive elements of the story to emerge without distraction. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of this improvement, I will be comparing my work specifically as it pertains to interviews pre- and post- technological update using a third party audience. After viewing, audience members will be asked a series of questions about the quality (in the categories of light, sound, etc.) and the effectiveness of communication within the interview. If audience members do not indicate major improvement, different arrangements and equipment settings will be implemented. The same audience members will then evaluate another interview without the technological improvement and a new interview with implemented changes.
The measurable outcomes of this effort are primarily to do with the quality of the content before and after the equipment purchases. However, the variables are somewhat subjective, making it difficult to cumulatively measure the outcomes of the project.
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