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Tech Time,
2023
DePaul University
Tech Time
DePaul Magazine
DePaul is embracing tech more than ever, incorporating innovative devices and approaches into education in all corners of the university. Here are seven ways DePaul provides hands-on experiences with cutting-edge tools that position students and faculty in the forefront of their industries and disciplines.
Eco-Interoception: What Plants, Fungi And Protista Have Taught My Body,
2023
Southern Methodist University
Eco-Interoception: What Plants, Fungi And Protista Have Taught My Body, Sara Riley Dotterer
Art Theses and Dissertations
To me, ecology is the relational, full-body awareness that I am made up of and deeply connected to everything around me; and for better or worse, this is reciprocal. I form ecotones, an ecological transitional zone between two ecosystems, with the world around me. I use this ecotonal lens to blur binaries and dissolve boundaries between me and the world “outside my body.” During my Masters of Fine Arts at Southern Methodist University, I have continuously explored and represented the lives of various more-than-human species outside of my body, including plants, fungi and protista through an ecotonal lens. Although these …
Other Oceans, Other Skies,
2023
Washington University in St. Louis
Other Oceans, Other Skies, Sharlene Lee
MFA in Visual Art
I create immersive installations, performances, and time-based media artworks that delve into stories of belonging, feminism, and language as power. These stories offer a potential for transformation from viewer to participant and a shift in how our world is seen and experienced. Through an exploration of perception and affect, I challenge dominant narratives, prompting a contemplation of contemporary power struggles for control.
In this text, I examine the impact of historical borders and migration on my life while also investigating questions of home, shared values, and rituals that contribute to one’s sense of belonging. I also highlight my commitment to …
The Theory Of Shot Composition Applied To Various Genres Of Film,
2023
Liberty University
The Theory Of Shot Composition Applied To Various Genres Of Film, Elizabeth Scott
Senior Honors Theses
I am fascinated by the composition of shots in movies, specifically as it applies to the various different genres. However, there seems to be a lack of research into this particular area of the theory of composition. In that case, I am planning to research the history and theory of shot composition as it applies to films throughout the history of film and into modern times. This will be supplemented by my own experience in the Fall of 2022 where I will be a Director of Photography for four individual films of varying genres as well as by a film …
Learning Documentary Film Production By Doing,
2023
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Learning Documentary Film Production By Doing, Erin Lucille Grasty
Journalism
No abstract provided.
How Do Stories Affect Careers?,
2023
Bowling Green State University
How Do Stories Affect Careers?, Victoria Read
Honors Projects
Determining viable professional careers is one of the most important parts of going to college. Artistic careers, including those in film, are both competitive and dependent on the responses of critics and audiences. People in film careers take different paths; one of them is writing screenplays. Researching screenwriting and the careers of two professional women screenwriters, Diablo Cody and Nancy Meyers, I sought to answer three central questions: how does writing create career paths, what are those careers, and what is it like writing a story?
Through the research on screenwriting, I became familiar with story structures such Joseph Campbell’s …
Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice: Eye-To-Eye,
2023
Bellarmine University
Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice: Eye-To-Eye, Kristen Via
Undergraduate Theses
This is a documentary focused on the topic of abortion that will stand as an archive of the events that have happened over the last year as well as an archive of the feelings of different people looking toward the future. This documentary is aimed to inform future generations more intimately of all the events that have transpired within the years 2022 and 2023 in addition to the feelings of many different people surrounding those events.
"Real Women Have Bodies": A Study In Adaptation,
2023
Bowling Green State University
"Real Women Have Bodies": A Study In Adaptation, Madison Ephlin
Honors Projects
The art of adaptation is a difficult process, and is often hard to please general audiences that have a connection to the source material. As a student who studies both English Literature and Film Production, the question asked through this study is what does it take to write a “successful” adaptation? What qualifies as “successful”? How does an adaptation balance the themes, characterization, and plot of a piece of literature with the continuous momentum and visual complexity that the medium of film requires, all in 120 pages or less? This study engages with these questions by actively practicing adaptation, adapting …
The Evolution Of Computer Generated Images And Special Effects Design In The Jurassic Park Trilogy,
2023
Whittier College
The Evolution Of Computer Generated Images And Special Effects Design In The Jurassic Park Trilogy, Samantha Renee Pearson
Whittier Scholars Program
Based on Michael Crichton’s unpublished novel, The Andromeda Strain, the awe-inspiring Jurassic Park trilogy (1993-2001) emerged from Steven Spielburg’s determination to make extinct characters come to life again. Early on in their careers, Crichton and Spielburg met at Universal Studios while working on Duel (1971) with ambitions to direct a film that would completely immerse their audience into a dinosaur-encompassing world. About five years later, Spielberg attempted to form a digital rendering for his film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), but later concluded that “‘The technology wasn’t there yet'” (Mottram 20).
Fast-forward to 1990, Spielburg was fixated on …
Cashing Out (Documentary),
2023
CUNY Hunter College
Cashing Out (Documentary), Girard Tecson
Theses and Dissertations
My 30-minute documentary film, Cashing Out, explores my journey into the world of sneaker culture and the major impact it made in my life.
Finding Kurt,
2023
The University of Akron
Finding Kurt, Ryan Block
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Upon completion of my Honors Project, I will have filmed, edited, planned, and directed a documentary on poverty in Akron. Through film, I will show the community what it is like to be homeless, without anyone there to look out for you. I will journey across Akron alongside my friend Jordan, looking to find a specific homeless man we once met. Along the way, I hope to come across other people without homes who will share stories about their lives, either in passing or through interviews. If I do not end up finding the man I set out to find, …
菠蘿包(Pineapple Bun): Exploring Memory And Language Through Animation,
2023
Scripps College
菠蘿包(Pineapple Bun): Exploring Memory And Language Through Animation, Elaine Yang
Scripps Senior Theses
菠蘿包(Pineapple Bun) explores the themes of reconstruction, evocation, and memory through my childhood in Taiwan. Inspired by other Asian American animators, I aim to tell a simple story of connection through my grandfather and I's daily swimming ritual. The film is a 3-minute animated short film following our language barrier and how we engage with each other's differing backgrounds.
The Culture Of Resistance Featuring Pleasure, Leisure, And Joy,
2023
Claremont Colleges
The Culture Of Resistance Featuring Pleasure, Leisure, And Joy, Gabriella Osifo
Scripps Senior Theses
Black students within predominantly white institutions (PWIs) have a unique experience due to the fact that they reside in higher learning institutions that were never meant to hold Black, queer bodies. Residentially, academically, and structurally PWIs display a quality of lacking which consists of failing to provide appropriate resources, acknowledge structural barriers, and address complaints made by students of queer identities, namely Black students, in meaningful and effective ways. Through examining the history of Black student-led movements within the five Claremont Colleges (5Cs) using a Black Existentialism lens, this paper seeks to understand the positionality of this quality of lacking …
The Queer Performance,
2023
The University of Akron
The Queer Performance, Owen Coldsnow
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
For my project, I decided to make a documentary focusing on the experiences of queer, University of Akron students appropriately called, “The Queer Performance.” As a member of the LGBTQ+ community myself, it was particularly important to me to document the unique challenges that queer students have to face. One specific challenge that rings true for me is putting on many different personas in different situations, and I wanted to see how this compared and contrasted with other members of the community. According to Goffman’s Dramaturgical Theory, everyone puts on an act when they are around people, but each of …
Making Films Means Imagination Without Rules,
2023
Dartmouth College
Making Films Means Imagination Without Rules, Shevaun Mizrahi, Alejandra Acosta Chávez
Open Education Initiative Projects
No abstract provided.
The Man In The Fiber Optic Cable: A Short Film,
2023
Claremont Colleges
The Man In The Fiber Optic Cable: A Short Film, Lucas Cunningham
Pomona Senior Theses
A man runs through a fiber optic cable.
“Quando Eu Crescer, Quero Ser Um Fotógrafo”: Caminhos Da Produção Audiovisual De Kamikia Kisêdjê,
2022
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) / Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) / Collaborating editor Tipití
“Quando Eu Crescer, Quero Ser Um Fotógrafo”: Caminhos Da Produção Audiovisual De Kamikia Kisêdjê, Rodrigo Lacerda, Ximena Flores Rojas, Tatiane Maíra Klein
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
What An Interesting Video To Put On The Internet (An Amusing Economic Indicator),
2022
CUNY Hunter College
What An Interesting Video To Put On The Internet (An Amusing Economic Indicator), Dahlia S. Bloomstone
Theses and Dissertations
My exhibition reconciles representations of domesticity, labor, and morality through the lens of sex-work (SW). It consists of video work, a video game, and free-to-take objects, where donation, the strip club, and the fish tank converge. My work concludes that SW is a timeless construct that will always exist even after reimagining multiple worlds.
Domesticating Space: Media Production Pedagogy For The Empowerment Of Marginalized Youth,
2022
University of Gothenburg
Domesticating Space: Media Production Pedagogy For The Empowerment Of Marginalized Youth, Maarit Jaakkola, Linda Sternö, Elias Fryk
Journal of Media Literacy Education
This article investigates the role of space in media and information literacy (MIL), especially when supporting learners’ production skills. The MIL framework is to a great extent focused on deconstruction of messages in a private position of reception, while the theoretical, didactic and ethical components of the production pedagogy are less developed. This multiple-case study analyses the situated agency of young people in a vulnerable position with regard to the spaces where agency is sustained. We develop the concept of production context into a more specific concept of production space and apply it to the film club in a suburb …
The Yellow Qipao,
2022
Bowling Green State University
The Yellow Qipao, Feibi Wang
Honors Projects
This is a creative project centered around the pre-production of a short film about queer Asian American Christianity and the research that went into it. The synopsis of the script written for the short film is a life in the day of Aspen. Aspen prepares for church and is indecisive of the clothes they want to wear, because they are gender non-conforming. They come out to their mom and there is conflict. My research going into this project consists of researching media representation of queerness, Asian American identity, and Christianity, and how the three identities intersect in Aspen’s life and …
