We are really excited about our class documentary! Our group has come up with some really creative and innovative ideas for the content of the documentary. We are in the process of completing our training sessions with the People's Channel and becoming certified. Once complete, our journey to filming this documentary will be in full force! If you would like further information please contact our group at our new listserv, social_justice@listserv.unc.edu
One Thursday, members from the People’s Channel Group went to our first training session on Field Production/Edit. We learned how to set up the camera, tripod, different lighting equipment, microphones, and other things involved in filming. We also learned about different aspects to take into account when filming such as angles of shooting. In our next section we will actually film a small clip that will be aired on the People’s Channel for some hands on experience.
I'm so excited about working with my group and pooling all of our awesome ideas and resources! I think the skills of working with the camera, lighting, and eventually production and editing will serve us for longer than just in this course. For human rights, though, mastering this medium will allow us to bring an important message to people in a professional, entertaining way that'll make them want to watch and listen.
Our group has now completed two training sessions, and I think we are all really excited to begin working on our own project. The staff at the People's Channel have been a pleasure and I really enjoy getting to learn about film production from them. Furthermore, I think our group is working really well together and we are excited to teach our community about human rights in a creative and engaging manner.
As Laura said, we had our second training session on Thursday. This time we mostly focused on hand-on training with the equipment that we had learned to use the week before. We recorded a short public service announcement about human rights and the People's Channel which we will edit next week while learning to use iMovie.
Hi, everyone! I have some updated information since our last session on Thursday's (October 2nd) which focused on "Planning the Shoot". We went over information concerning planning an interview, previewing the site aka a site survey, and lastly script preparation. The goal of the session was to learn how to effectively shoot, script, and plan for an interview. For example, surveying the site to check for lighting qualities or speaking with your interviewee ahead of time with a preplanned list of questions. Executing these elements will ultimately make for a more smoothly ran interview. To finish up the session, we filmed a public service announcement about the definition of human rights and how citizens can use the People's Channel to exercise these rights.
For our specific project, we decided our target audience for the documentary will be Chapel Hill/Carrboro citizens. Daniel provided an excellent interview contact, the Director at the community health clinic in Carrboro called El Futuro. Our final film/edit session will be at the People's Channel on Tuesday!
In an effort not to simply reiterate what I'm sure my group members already covered, I thought I'd talk more about what we're really aiming to do with this project. We know we want to focus on human rights and asking people what their interpretation of it is, but frankly I don't think we know ourselves what call to action we want them to rise to, or even what being a Human Rights City really means. In essence, the U.S. is one big human rights city and it seems we should be hard pressed to find cities that would dare declare themselves otherwise. This makes the actual tangible point of declaring a city a HRC hard to see, and somewhat insulting to neighboring cities striving for the same ideals. With our project, then, hopefully we ourselves will get something out of it along the way as to a more specific goal we are trying to achieve other than just spouting out a definition of human rights and which countries have it and which don't. Thoughts? Also, anyone with any contacts dealing in areas where human rights are addressed or violated for interviews would be appreciated.
Today was our last film/edit session with the People's Channel. Our class focused on using I-movie, a video editing software program. Here we trimmed, cropped, and added special effects to the public service announcement we made last session. By adding titles, credits, music, transitions, and more we really made a spectacular PSA. This PSA will be shown on the t.v. station that The People's Channel broadcasts, so please look out for that coming soon!
I have a copy of the DVD that we have produced as a learning tool through our three four-hour sessions at the People's Channel. We will begin filming our class documentary this weekend, and several of us have already sent emails out to community leaders requesting interviews. Although our timeline requires that we finish filming in just a few weeks, we should also have plenty of time to edit and have a stunning finished product to present to the community via TV. More to come soon!
So, film/edit classes are now over and we have produced our first PSA on Human rights. We now have even more exciting news. Drum roll please...We had our first day of interviews yesterday. Angela, Jazmine, and I checked out our first set of field equipment and we headed to our location: Whole foods in Chapel Hill. We got our equipment set up on the sidewalk just outside of Whole foods and we began asking for input from the locals on human rights. At first, everyone was a little hesitant to talk to us, and many looked away in hopes of not being asked. But as the afternoon progressed, we had several people who were interested in the topic and very willing to stop and chat with us. We asked a few general questions about what they thought human rights were and what they meant to them. We also asked a few more specific questions about the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area. One of the really interesting things was that we had a few internationals talk to us about how the US treats human rights as compared with other countries around the world. The perspective of human rights was very broad. Some people were very idealistic and they thought that overall the US was doing well in implementing and supporting human rights. And others were very pessimistic, saying that the US was ,on a scale from 1-10, a 3 in terms how its support of human rights. We got some great filming and responses. In fact, there were several individuals who appeared to know more about the topic than we did. It is hopeful to see that human rights is definitely a topic that people in the area are thinking about and it is important to them. We realized after we filmed that we had one minor problem. Most of the people who talked with us were older, white males. We had a few internationals, but overall very few minorities or women. The next location we film at must not be another location where we will attract the same population as we did yesterday!
We will be interviewing Luke Smith, MD at El Futuro on November 6th for our documentary. Email Daniel Hall (danhall@email.unc.edu) if you have any questions you would like me to ask him concerning Latinos in Carrboro, mental healthcare for the uninsured, and citizenship issues.
I'm not on the People's Channel committee, but I just wanted to commend you guys for a great job with that first video that you put together and showed to the class a few weeks ago. It was really impressive and I'm excited to see what other types of projects you have in store dealing with human rights as the semester progresses. Congrats on your video making it onto the public access channel. How exciting!
Before I interview Luke Smith, MD at El Futuro, I thought I should organize some good questions. Here's what I have so far:
Background How long have you been a practicing physician? What motivated you to work with Latinos? What motivated you to help form El Futuro? How long has El Futuro existed? El Futuro What is the mission of El Futuro? What services does El Futuro provide? What type of clients do you and other clinicians here see? Big Questions 1) I imagine that there might be some obstacles standing in the way of you being able to provide mental healthcare to anyone who needs it. What kinds of issues limit your ability to provide therapy and medicine to Latinos in and around Carrboro? 2) What sort of public policy changes could allow you to be the best doctor possible here at El Futuro? 3) How would you define Human Rights? 4) How is your work at El Futuro related to human rights work? 5) Would you be in favor of Chapel Hill and Carrboro putting human rights initiatives on their agendas?
On Thursday, Angela and I went over to People's Channel to start editing our film from the public interviews. We decided to edit the interviews by question instead of person, so that the audience could more effectively get an understanding of how the general population feels about a certain question. Editing worked well with two people and we developed a system working together that was efficient. We now have 8 minutes of edited film, which is quite a bit!
As Laura said we spent some time editing the film. Editing is definitely a more complex and time consuming process than it seems on the surface. While editing the film it was interesting to see the wide range of perspectives that the people we interviewed have and also the way certain questions usually got similar responses.
A few days ago I went with Laura and Daniel to interview Lucas Smith from El Futuro. The footage we got will definitely help educate people about El Futuro's involvement in fighting for the local human rights of Latinos, particularly where it concerns their mental health treatment. Editing the footage will be difficult as almost all of his long interview I thought was crucial information, but for the sake of the time allowed for the film, we will have to find the most important parts. We'll see how the editing goes!
Lauren and I went to film the conclusion of our documentary. The location was a park in Chapel Hill. We also worked hard on editing some footage with Daniel so that we can turn our documentary in during the allotted time! This documentary has really turned out to be great. Essentially, I went from being an amateur to having a more general knowledge base of filming and producing.
18 comments:
We have met with Chad and have decided to take a field production/edit course. Hopefully, we can start filming soon!
DH
We are really excited about our class documentary! Our group has come up with some really creative and innovative ideas for the content of the documentary. We are in the process of completing our training sessions with the People's Channel and becoming certified. Once complete, our journey to filming this documentary will be in full force! If you would like further information please contact our group at our new listserv, social_justice@listserv.unc.edu
One Thursday, members from the People’s Channel Group went to our first training session on Field Production/Edit. We learned how to set up the camera, tripod, different lighting equipment, microphones, and other things involved in filming. We also learned about different aspects to take into account when filming such as angles of shooting. In our next section we will actually film a small clip that will be aired on the People’s Channel for some hands on experience.
Angela
I'm so excited about working with my group and pooling all of our awesome ideas and resources! I think the skills of working with the camera, lighting, and eventually production and editing will serve us for longer than just in this course. For human rights, though, mastering this medium will allow us to bring an important message to people in a professional, entertaining way that'll make them want to watch and listen.
Our group has now completed two training sessions, and I think we are all really excited to begin working on our own project. The staff at the People's Channel have been a pleasure and I really enjoy getting to learn about film production from them. Furthermore, I think our group is working really well together and we are excited to teach our community about human rights in a creative and engaging manner.
As Laura said, we had our second training session on Thursday. This time we mostly focused on hand-on training with the equipment that we had learned to use the week before. We recorded a short public service announcement about human rights and the People's Channel which we will edit next week while learning to use iMovie.
Hi, everyone! I have some updated information since our last session on Thursday's (October 2nd) which focused on "Planning the Shoot". We went over information concerning planning an interview, previewing the site aka a site survey, and lastly script preparation. The goal of the session was to learn how to effectively shoot, script, and plan for an interview. For example, surveying the site to check for lighting qualities or speaking with your interviewee ahead of time with a preplanned list of questions. Executing these elements will ultimately make for a more smoothly ran interview. To finish up the session, we filmed a public service announcement about the definition of human rights and how citizens can use the People's Channel to exercise these rights.
For our specific project, we decided our target audience for the documentary will be Chapel Hill/Carrboro citizens. Daniel provided an excellent interview contact, the Director at the community health clinic in Carrboro called El Futuro. Our final film/edit session will be at the People's Channel on Tuesday!
In an effort not to simply reiterate what I'm sure my group members already covered, I thought I'd talk more about what we're really aiming to do with this project. We know we want to focus on human rights and asking people what their interpretation of it is, but frankly I don't think we know ourselves what call to action we want them to rise to, or even what being a Human Rights City really means. In essence, the U.S. is one big human rights city and it seems we should be hard pressed to find cities that would dare declare themselves otherwise. This makes the actual tangible point of declaring a city a HRC hard to see, and somewhat insulting to neighboring cities striving for the same ideals. With our project, then, hopefully we ourselves will get something out of it along the way as to a more specific goal we are trying to achieve other than just spouting out a definition of human rights and which countries have it and which don't. Thoughts? Also, anyone with any contacts dealing in areas where human rights are addressed or violated for interviews would be appreciated.
Today was our last film/edit session with the People's Channel. Our class focused on using I-movie, a video editing software program. Here we trimmed, cropped, and added special effects to the public service announcement we made last session. By adding titles, credits, music, transitions, and more we really made a spectacular PSA. This PSA will be shown on the t.v. station that The People's Channel broadcasts, so please look out for that coming soon!
I have a copy of the DVD that we have produced as a learning tool through our three four-hour sessions at the People's Channel. We will begin filming our class documentary this weekend, and several of us have already sent emails out to community leaders requesting interviews. Although our timeline requires that we finish filming in just a few weeks, we should also have plenty of time to edit and have a stunning finished product to present to the community via TV. More to come soon!
So, film/edit classes are now over and we have produced our first PSA on Human rights. We now have even more exciting news. Drum roll please...We had our first day of interviews yesterday. Angela, Jazmine, and I checked out our first set of field equipment and we headed to our location: Whole foods in Chapel Hill. We got our equipment set up on the sidewalk just outside of Whole foods and we began asking for input from the locals on human rights. At first, everyone was a little hesitant to talk to us, and many looked away in hopes of not being asked. But as the afternoon progressed, we had several people who were interested in the topic and very willing to stop and chat with us. We asked a few general questions about what they thought human rights were and what they meant to them. We also asked a few more specific questions about the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area. One of the really interesting things was that we had a few internationals talk to us about how the US treats human rights as compared with other countries around the world. The perspective of human rights was very broad. Some people were very idealistic and they thought that overall the US was doing well in implementing and supporting human rights. And others were very pessimistic, saying that the US was ,on a scale from 1-10, a 3 in terms how its support of human rights. We got some great filming and responses. In fact, there were several individuals who appeared to know more about the topic than we did. It is hopeful to see that human rights is definitely a topic that people in the area are thinking about and it is important to them.
We realized after we filmed that we had one minor problem. Most of the people who talked with us were older, white males. We had a few internationals, but overall very few minorities or women. The next location we film at must not be another location where we will attract the same population as we did yesterday!
Overall, great first day of filming!
UPDATE!!!!!
We will be interviewing Luke Smith, MD at El Futuro on November 6th for our documentary. Email Daniel Hall (danhall@email.unc.edu) if you have any questions you would like me to ask him concerning Latinos in Carrboro, mental healthcare for the uninsured, and citizenship issues.
Thanks!
I'm not on the People's Channel committee, but I just wanted to commend you guys for a great job with that first video that you put together and showed to the class a few weeks ago. It was really impressive and I'm excited to see what other types of projects you have in store dealing with human rights as the semester progresses. Congrats on your video making it onto the public access channel. How exciting!
Before I interview Luke Smith, MD at El Futuro, I thought I should organize some good questions. Here's what I have so far:
Background
How long have you been a practicing physician?
What motivated you to work with Latinos?
What motivated you to help form El Futuro?
How long has El Futuro existed?
El Futuro
What is the mission of El Futuro?
What services does El Futuro provide?
What type of clients do you and other clinicians here see?
Big Questions
1) I imagine that there might be some obstacles standing in the way of you being able to provide mental healthcare to anyone who needs it. What kinds of issues limit your ability to provide therapy and medicine to Latinos in and around Carrboro?
2) What sort of public policy changes could allow you to be the best doctor possible here at El Futuro?
3) How would you define Human Rights?
4) How is your work at El Futuro related to human rights work?
5) Would you be in favor of Chapel Hill and Carrboro putting human rights initiatives on their agendas?
On Thursday, Angela and I went over to People's Channel to start editing our film from the public interviews. We decided to edit the interviews by question instead of person, so that the audience could more effectively get an understanding of how the general population feels about a certain question. Editing worked well with two people and we developed a system working together that was efficient. We now have 8 minutes of edited film, which is quite a bit!
As Laura said we spent some time editing the film. Editing is definitely a more complex and time consuming process than it seems on the surface. While editing the film it was interesting to see the wide range of perspectives that the people we interviewed have and also the way certain questions usually got similar responses.
-Angela
A few days ago I went with Laura and Daniel to interview Lucas Smith from El Futuro. The footage we got will definitely help educate people about El Futuro's involvement in fighting for the local human rights of Latinos, particularly where it concerns their mental health treatment. Editing the footage will be difficult as almost all of his long interview I thought was crucial information, but for the sake of the time allowed for the film, we will have to find the most important parts. We'll see how the editing goes!
Lauren and I went to film the conclusion of our documentary. The location was a park in Chapel Hill. We also worked hard on editing some footage with Daniel so that we can turn our documentary in during the allotted time! This documentary has really turned out to be great. Essentially, I went from being an amateur to having a more general knowledge base of filming and producing.
Post a Comment