Production blog – Take 1

This blog will be my sidekick as I contemplate, develop… and contemplate the development of my MFA thesis project in Documentary Media @ Ryerson University (T.O.)

• Subject under scrutiny: Alternative education; the value & need of art and new-media practice in the classroom.
• The people I wish to collaborate with and/or interview: high school students, teachers, new-media artists, web developer
• The voices I wish to hear from primarily: high school students, teachers, mentors
• The medium I wish to use to document project: audio, video, photography
• The medium I wish to concentrate on and develop my skills in: audio — audio-documentary
• How do I envision the final project appearing?: as an installation
• Framework of the installation: … need to develop media first
• Media to start addressing: audio recordings of students, classroom ‘sounds’ in both alternative and traditional settings.
• Goal(s) of project: 1) to produce an interactive teaching module for a grade nine geography class that would incorporate video and sound/ audio tools

Huge inspiration:

Project Time-line

May/June

• Contact teachers in Toronto & Montreal; lineup interviews and discussions of collaboration possibilities
• Research experiential learning practices
• Research local alternative educational practices
• Visit alternative schools
• Interview students & instructors
• Visit OISE
• Meet with new media programmers
• Discuss curriculum for fall semester with 1-2 teachers and new-media collaborator

July

• Record & edit interviews–experiment with audio documentary editing

August

• Finalize curriculum for fall semester with 1-2 teachers and new-media collaborator
• Edit interviews–experiment with audio documentary editing

Fall/’10

• Conduct pilot project with students
• Document class project in video

Project Budget: 2010-11

Travel: Mtl-T.O – 1500.00
Honorarium: Web consultant, new-media developer – 1000.00
Equipment – 500.00
Food (crew & subjects) – 500.00
Hard drive  – 400.00
SD card for camera  – 100.00
Final installation: rental of monitors, audio system, earphones – 500.00
Miscellaneous (supplies) – 200.00
Research (books, media, conferences…) – 400.00

Total – 5100.00$

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