This year, our student spotlight highlights documentary storytellers!

Brooke De Zutter, Jacob Segelbaum, Emma Quinn, “Monumental Change” (documentary)
MSP 3701: Genres of Media Production with Dr. Kristine Weatherston, 2018
Conversation with MSP undergraduate student Brooke de Zutter

Chris Lumsden, Hoa “Ivy” Nguyen, Bridget O’Hara, Kelsi Smith, Matthew Ward,  “Encore: Music Education for Social Change” (documentary)
MSP 3701: Genres of Media Production with Dr. Kristine Weatherston, 2018
Conversation with MSP undergraduate student Matthew Ward

 

Chunxue Li, “My Name Is” (documentary)
MSP Master of Arts final project, 2018
Committee: Laura Zaylea (chair), Clemencia Rodríguez, Rea Tajiri

Yuanzhuo Wang, “2018 Spring Festival Memory” (documentary)
MSP Master of Arts final project, 2018
Committee: Laura Zaylea (chair), Nancy Morris, Rea Tajiri

Zhaochen Zhang, “Peking Opera Overseas” (documentary)
MSP Master of Arts final project, 2018
Committee: Laura Zaylea (chair), Nancy Morris, Kristine Weatherston

Conversation with MSP graduate students Chunxue Li, Yuanzhuo Wang and Zhaochen Zhang 

Statement by Dr. Kristine Weatherston:

Documentary is an art form, a medium of expression which provides a window to human experience.  With the producer as both a follower of and guide to the subject, and the camera itself a participant, the audience determines, finally, through reflection and refraction of their own experience, the meaning of the text. Its processes are as diverse as the multiple windows of human consciousness – a layering of access points to communication of the universal themes that connect us. Our students produce work that allows them to imbue the various roles of the documentarian: from explorer to reporter, to poet and observer, to advocate and catalyst.  The roles of MSP producers are as fluid as the stories they tell, where the content dictates the form, extracting layers of truth, beauty, and knowledge.

 

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