Written Reflections: First impressions from the field (500-800 words)
- To what extent does your first contact with the field site confirm the feasibility and relevance of your proposal? And to what extent does it challenge them?
- Do these circumstances require a rephrasing of your research-question and/or an adjustment of your methodological approach? How so?
- Describe one incident that struck you as surprising or significant in some way. Try to write in a descriptively ‘thick’ manner.
- Describe one person who will potentially be a protagonist in your film or multimodal output. Try to give the person a sense of fullness in your description.
Footage: First impressions in audiovisual examples
- Submit 10-12 still images (photographic, drawing, mapping) that give an idea of the location(s) where you are working and the people with whom you are working.
- Submit 2 video sequences (2-4 minutes each) that exemplify your style of filming and mode of engaging people. If you do not have access to an appropriate internet connection, then substitute with still images and compress as necessary.
- Submit 1 sound sequence (2-4 minutes each) that give a sense of place for one of your main locations.
Organizing and Logging: Send an overview of your recorded materials. Referring to Laura Ogden’s logging method described in the handouts in Field Preparations, begin to develop your own footage organization system. This should include:
- the quantitative metadata of all relevant media records (name, date and time created, clip length),
- a qualitative log of each clip with details (content, names of key subjects, locations, events, topics, etc.), and
- the paradata on how you collected the data (mode, equipment, method, etc.).
Begin to organize the different media into loglists according to: Themes, Events, Content, etc. Think about the following questions as you do this:
- What question does the footage answer/address?
- To which concepts does the footage relate?
- What is the quality of the AV material?
- What role could it have in the final film?
