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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"documentary video"”.
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Gestalt Work For the Actor: A Documentary Video Production
Gestalt Work for the Actor is a documentary about Dr. Renee Vincent's Gestalt acting exercise. Students are trained to recall powerful emotions and then employ the conjured passions into performance. This documentary examines the Gestalt acting exercise and what benefits it affords actors. The …
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Herb and Life: A Chinese Medical Family
… Life: a Chinese Medical Family, a thirty-minute documentary video that explores the producer's family members' relationship with Traditional Chinese Medicine. This documentary uses interviews, narration, music, and observational sequences to display documentary subjects' career choices and their …
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The Luxury of Tears: A Secondary Survivor's Story
… for The Luxury of Tears, a twelve-minute documentary video exploring the emotional impact of sexual assault on male survivors and their partners, this document examines the visual texts of both the fiction and nonfiction genres. Specifically, I contend that fiction film manufactures male …
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Harbor: The Act of Autobiography
This written thesis accompanies a sixteen-minute documentary video, Harbor, in which the filmmaker explores her relationship with her father who has suffered a stroke. Detailed accounts of the pre-production, production and post-production of the video allow the reader to understand the challenging …
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Two Fingers: Michael's Struggle
… Michael's Struggle, a twenty-nine minute documentary video that explores the life of Michael Alan Rasch who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It explains in detail the process of pre-production, production, and post-production of the documentary. It also discuses the integration of …
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Journey for Jazz
This written thesis accompanies a 32-minute documentary video, Journey for Jazz, which explores four Korean students who major in jazz at the University of North Texas in Denton. Detailed accounts of the pre-production, production, and post-production of the video guide the reader to understand the …
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Just a Click Away from Home: Ecuadorian Migration, Nostalgia and New Technologies in Transnational Times
… to the United States, Spain and Italy, this documentary video and its study guide explore how new technologies such as the Internet, satellite communications, email, videoconferences, and cell phones have changed the experience of displacement. The two components of this dissertation propose …
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Orientation Device
… device that allow the audience to participate in documentary queer performances in any private or public setting. These immersive experiences challenge our perception of space. The LGBTQIA+ community is often disoriented within heteronormative spaces, and this work reverses that dichotomy by …
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Vieques: Island of Conflict and Dreams
This written thesis is a companion to a 30-minute documentary video of the same title. The documentary is a presentation of the historical conflict between the United States Navy and the people of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. For over 60 years the island was used by the United States Navy as …
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Proyecto fotográfico en torno a las emociones, sensaciones e historia de un caso de abuso sexual
… abuse. It consists of 61 photographs and a documentary video essay, which are presented through a web portal. In the creation of this project, various visual treatments, photographic genres and formats have been used. The elements that are part of the exhibition are intended to be a means of …
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An artist-educator's role in community arts : integrating people of diverse backgrounds and ages
… expression through collaborative work. The documentary video of the project shows the active process of the participants' personal creations. The participants were children and adults, some with and some without disabilities. Three workshops were held at L'Atelier d'Artisanat du Centre-Ville …
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Storied navigation : toward media collection-based storytelling
… with various kinds of media, such as photos, videos, etc. But people still find it time-consuming to select and arrange media fragments to create coherent and engaging narratives. This thesis proposes a novel storytelling system called Storied Navigation, which lets users assemble a sequence …
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Creating cohesive video with the narrative-informed use of ubiquitous wearable and imaging sensor networks
… of camera technology and the increasing use of video for social communication, entertainment, and education, we have undoubtedly entered the age of ubiquitous media. A world permeated by connected video devices promises a more democratized approach to mass-media culture, enabling anyone to …
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Mindful documentary
In the practice of documentary creation, a videographer performs an elaborate balancing act between observing the world, deciding what to record, and understanding the implications of the recorded material, all with respect to her primary goal of story construction. This thesis presents mindful …
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Visible flows : the dynamics of community-based flood and water resource management and governance in Uthai Thani
… the baseline example, the four chapters of the documentary film,'Visible Flows', are the synthesis of both formal, and informal conversations given by the Hart Thanong community who devised strategies to mitigate flood impacts with less reliance on external assistance, and continue to do so in …
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Personal imaging
… in photography, defines a new genre of documentary video, and goes beyond digital photography/video to define a new renaissance in imaging, based on simple principles of projective geometry combined with linearity and superposition properties of light. I first present a mathematical …
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Running To and Away From Reflection Animated Auto-Ethnographic Video
This critical engagement paper accompanies my Video Poem, Running To, and Away From Reflection. This autoethnographic experimental documentary in the form of a video poem is both research and documentation of my assumptions, insights and memories. These were triggered by the Restrictions of the …