I feel pretty good about where I am with the research part of my project. My main concern was organization and research, but I managed to find several useful sources and I am organizing them as I go on Zotero. Right now I am working on making annotated bibliographies for each of them. Even though I don’t need to, it helps me to do things that way. Celina also mentioned in her visit that she did that as well, and I thought it was a great idea.
Speaking of Celina, her visit helped me so much with both production and research. The examples she provided from her project helped me visualize and plan mine better. I always understand things better when given clear examples, and I hope we can have more opportunities to see past work! I’m exactly where I need to be in my production process as well, the initial media assignment helped me plan some really cool shots as my b-roll. I wanted to have a script in progress at this point in the semester, and I do. I feel like I have so much of my vision in my head, so I want to work a bit more on my pre-production outline that I created in Canva and make little notes for myself.
My project meets the expectations because I am taking the necessary steps to ensure my project has a solid foundation. I already addressed the political implications of media loss and I will continue to develop an argument for how important this issue is. I am doing that by looking at theorists such as Wolfgang Ernst, Erkki Huhtamo, and Jussi Parikka, who study media archeology. I am also studying memory and nostalgia by studying the work of Svetlana Boym. Additionally, I’m researching many scholars who discuss the political side of media erasure and censorship, such as Rakesh Sengupta Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. Using creative cinematography, my project will help the user feel the loss through the screen via several effects and camera angles. While the project will be cinematic, these theories and research will support the concept academically.
I am so excited to make my pre-production binder! I am so glad I already started working on a pre-production outline so early, because it’s helping me shape my project and know the next steps to take.
The feedback I got for my initial media was so helpful! People mostly had nice things to say and it made me feel even more confident in my vision and style. While most of my shots are pretty good so far, they’re poorly edited. Moving forward, I wanna get familiar with the green screen since I will be using it a lot for my project.
References
Chun, W. H. K. (2005). Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics. MIT Press.
Ernst, W. (2013). Digital Memory and the Archive (J. Parikka, Ed.). University of Minnesota Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt32bcwb
Huhtamo, E., & Parikka, J. (Eds.). (2011). Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications. University of California Press.
Sengupta, R. (2020). Towards a Decolonial Media Archaeology: The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi. Theory, Culture & Society, 38(1), 3-26. https://doi-org.libproxy.temple.edu/10.1177/0263276420930276
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