Modes, flows and networks: the promise of crowdfunding in documentary filmmaking and audience development

2014 ◽  
pp. 149-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Elizabeth Luka
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Filmmaking ◽  
Audience Development

Evidence of Visibility

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
B. Ruby Rich
Keyword(s):  
Current State ◽  
Documentary Filmmaking

Editor-in-Chief B. Ruby Rich reports on recent symposia and festivals in which she took part, reflects on the current state of Canadian documentary filmmaking, and charts a course through the content featured in FQ 69.2.

scholarly journals “Audience exchange”: cultivating peer-to-peer dialogue at unfamiliar arts events

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Pitts ◽  
Jonathan Gross
Keyword(s):  
Peer Learning ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Exchange Method ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Peer Dialogue ◽  
Targeted Marketing ◽  
Audience Development ◽  
First Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of the “audience exchange” approach for audience development and research, and to highlight the insights offered by peer-to-peer dialogue in understanding experiences of unfamiliar arts. Design/methodology/approach Using a case study with contemporary arts audiences, and setting this in the wider context of studies with other first-time attenders at a range of arts events, the paper explores the use of the “audience exchange” method, in which facilitated conversations after performance events allow newcomers to reflect upon and deepen their first-time encounters with live arts. Findings The study demonstrates the way in which conversations about arts events can enrich audience experience, and shows how participants use exploratory and emotional language to articulate their understanding of unfamiliar arts events. Peer-to-peer learning occurs through these conversations, in ways that could be further supported by arts organisations as a valuable tool for audience development. The audience exchange discussions also reveal the varieties of participation from “drifting” to full attention that are all part of audience engagement. Research limitations/implications This is a small-scale, qualitative study, and the method has potential to be tested in future studies with a greater variety of participants (e.g. younger or more ethnically diverse groups). Practical implications Use of the audience exchange for enriching experiences of first-time attendance could be adopted by arts organisations as a regular part of their audience engagement. Greater understanding of how new audience members draw on prior cultural experiences in finding the language to articulate their first impressions of an unfamiliar arts event could be valuable for targeted marketing and increasing accessibility. Originality/value The originality of this study lies in its elaboration of the audience exchange method, and its focus on the language and peer-to-peer learning evident in the facilitated post-performance discussions.

scholarly journals Path to Accessibility: The current state of disability access in Aotearoa New Zealand museums

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Riah King-Wall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Audience Development ◽  
Research Frameworks

<p>The New Museology posits museums and galleries as institutions entwined with issues of social justice and political responsibility. The relationship between museums and their communities is the founding aspect of this theoretical and practical framework. ‘Path to Accessibility’ explores the ways museums and galleries around Aotearoa New Zealand are engaging with communities of people with disabilities, consulting both with representatives from the disability sector and cultural organisations from around the country. This dissertation addresses a current gap in the literature available on how New Zealand museums are adapting to the needs of these audiences; a shift that is necessary given one in four New Zealanders identifies as having lived experience of disability. It also forges a valuable contribution to the field of museum studies by drawing on theory such as audience development and visitor research, and utilising emancipatory research frameworks from disability studies, as well as conducting original research on an under-examined topic.  The research comprised a multi-method approach to ensure credibility. Focus group and interview stages collected the experiences and viewpoints of existing museum visitors with disabilities. This provided a foundation on which to create a nationwide survey of 41 museums and galleries. The survey explored multiple aspects of disability access, including physical ingress, inclusive exhibition design, tailored public programming, digital accessibility, and levels of disability representation in staff and management positions.  The findings of this research project reveal that museums and galleries in Aotearoa New Zealand are for the most part considering disability access in some way. However, actioning related initiatives is often limited to achieving minimum legislative requirements rather than approaching it comprehensively as part of wider audience development strategies. The analysis of data gathered puts forward a number of suggestions around improving practice in New Zealand museums, central to which is establishing relationships with communities of people with disabilities and their advocacy groups to ensure long-term sustainability. These recommendations have global applicability for museum practice as comparative overseas studies demonstrate strong similarities to the New Zealand context.</p>

scholarly journals Sanctuary: documentary in virtual reality (VR)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shivani Mulekar
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Mural Paintings ◽  
Nonlinear Form ◽  
Documentary Filmmaking ◽  
Film Viewing ◽  
Viewing Experience

Sanctuary is a documentary film in virtual reality (VR). The film uses 360-camera technology to offer a sensory immersive viewing experience. The film attempts to transcend the borders of filmmaking by merging new 360-camera technology and a nonlinear form of storytelling. The film is an observational piece. 360-degree videos are an emerging technology, which offers the viewer a sensory, immersive experience in virtual reality. Influenced by the 360-panoramic mural paintings created in 1860s, the use of the 360-camera breaks away from the syntax of documentary filmmaking and gives the audience an active role in the film-viewing experience. It breaks the traditional semantics of filmmaking and sets new rules of viewing which are personal and unique to each viewer. Sanctuary documents the Juhasz family, which has been living in a church since November 2014. The film is an eight-minute experience that gives the audience a 360- degree glimpse into the Juhasz family’s life and their living conditions. The film is presented as an installation, using Samsung’s Gear VR as the exhibition technology.

scholarly journals Polyphonizm of narrative in documentary film (On the case of films about P. Tychyna, M. Rylskyi, V. Sosiura)

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
Anhelina Ganzha
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Screen Reading ◽  
Simultaneous Use ◽  
Documentary Filmmaking ◽  
Time Frames

Narratives in cinema text are seen as narratives of interrelated events occurring within specific space-time frames involving the author, narrator and characters. The intermedical nature of documentary filmmaking complicates its analysis in the coordinates of any research paradigm. However, among the universal categories of reception of film narratives, polyphonicism should be singled out as a means of creating a holistic view of a cultural product. The article offers the authorʼs vision of realization of the polyphonism of the film narrative in the documentaries “I Call You” (2006), “Poeta Maximus” (2008), “So No One Loved” (2008) from the series “Game of Fate”. It is concluded that there is a certain plot-compositional scheme of organization of audiovisual polyphonic narrative in the series. Among the specific figures of the screen narration in the analyzed documentary tapes we see transposition (eg, transition from the direct speech of the presenter to a voice-over commentary on a movie quote), overlay (simultaneous use of the “chronicle of the epoch” with the off-screen reading of an excerpt from an artistic text), photos and video snippets).

scholarly journals Encountering the Goddess in the Indian Himalaya: On the Contribution of Ethnographic Film to the Study of Religion

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1021
Author(s):  
Arik Moran
Keyword(s):  
Spirit Possession ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Indian Himalaya ◽  
Ethnographic Film ◽  
Documentary Filmmaking ◽  
The Way

This paper examines the benefits of ethnographic film for the study of religion. It argues that the exploration of gaps between colloquial descriptions of divinities and their practical manifestation in ritual is instructive of the way religious categories are conceptualized. The argument is developed through an analysis of selected scenes from the documentary AVATARA, a meditation on goddess worship (Śaktism) among the Khas ethnic majority of the Hindu Himalaya (Himachal Pradesh, India). Centering on embodiments of the goddess in spirit possession séances, it points to a fundamental difference between the popular depiction of the deity as a virgin-child (kanyā) who visits followers in their dreams and her actual manifestation as a menacing mother (mātā) during ritual activities. These ostensibly incongruent images are ultimately bridged by the anthropologically informed edition of the material caught on camera, illustrating the added advantage of documentary filmmaking for approximating religious experiences.

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