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Discovering Community
Through
Video Documentary
A Four-Day Video Intensive Workshop
Monday, July 14–Thursday, July 17, 2008
Discovering Community through Video Documentary trains educators in the skills of video production and models the use of video documentary in the classroom. This workshop combines the methods of ethnographic discovery research with the techniques of documentary video production to facilitate projects that both draw knowledge from—and return knowledge to—students’ home communities. Over the course of an intensive four-day workshop participants will work with video producer Paul MacGowan in a learning environment that models an ethnographic approach to community inquiry and teaches skills to create a video documentary.
Participants will explore all aspects of a community documentary video project: developing a documentary topic, effective camera techniques, pre-production planning, interviewing techniques, and experiencing the power of asking compelling questions and finding and formulating a meaningful story that can be shared with others.
Location: Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main Street, Middlebury, VT
Dates: July 14, 2008–July 17, 2008.
Instructor: Paul MacGowan, videographer/workshop leader
Tuition: $575
Contact: 802-388-4964
Instructor’s Biography:
Paul MacGowan has been producing, shooting, writing, and editing videos for twenty years for broadcast, corporate, and educational purposes. Throughout his career MacGowan has introduced video production to young people: He served as video consultant for a Vermont Rural Partnership community-based video project, working with students and faculty from three high schools to create a video on a unique aspect of their community. He has worked with the Vermont Folklife Center as a video workshop presenter for their Discovering Community Summer Institute for educators. Recently he completed the pilot in a series for Vermont Public Television, which will be produced with high school students and will focus on topics of relevance in the lives of young people today. In 2001 he received a New England Emmy Award for the documentary Lives.
To register for Discovering Community Through Video Documentary, please call the Vermont Folklife Center at (802) 388-4964 or download the form below and mail or fax to:
- Vermont Folklife Center
Discovering Community Through Video Documentary
88 Main Street
Middlebury, VT 05753
Fax: (802) 388-1844
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