Please "comment" to add additional projects you hear of. Also if you hear of someone looking for help with an existing project.
Here is one on racism and this year's presidential election. If you're interested, let me know. I didn't want to post her phone # on a public blog.
I hope that someone on your staff or a student may be interested in a documentary regarding the issue of race and the NC Presidential Election 2008.
After discussions with friends, a neighbor and client, I became concerned that the elephant in the living room was now so big (race factor) that a more direct exploration of the issue would help N.C. move forward on the issue of racism and how it divides people.
My background - I am caucasion female who is 43 and works aa Ph.D. psychologis. I also have a Master's degree in Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures from UNC-CH.
Close friends who are 85 and 82 recently had a second Obama sign stolen from their yard.
The second one came back covered with racial slurs, white power written on one side and a swastika. A neighbor who is in her 80s also told me she usually votes for the Democratic Party's candidates, but grew up in a different time and just isn't comfortable with Obama. A client who lives in rural NC told me her husband and older sister said they would never vote for a N ---- even though they always vote for the Democratic Party's candidate.
I believe this is happening all over the state and the country.
I am trying to see if I can generate interest in some church communities in N.C. to have forums regarding this issue.
Concerns about sexism have also arisena and this could also be discussed.
The time for such a documentary is now - the first Afr-Am candidate for president will never be a first again.
Let me know if any of your staff or students would be interest in exploring this topic with me.
Cheryl Johnson (Raleigh)
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The Beautiful. Project looking for photographers
Professional development opportunity designed for emerging Black undergraduate women photographers
www.thebeautifulproject.org
What is The Beautiful. Project?
The Beautiful. Project is a sixteen week program that uses photography, interviews, and creative workshops, to give girls an opportunity to confront positive and negative portrayals of Black girls and women. TBP is designed to deepen each participant’s personal definition of what it means to be beautiful inside and out. Photographers will have the opportunity to create photographic essays centered around each participant’s experience and observation of beauty in her own life.
The Beautiful. Project is seeking intuitive undergraduate women of African descent interested in engaging the community through digital photography, interviews, and mentorship.
Please apply if you would like to be part of a movement of women empowering girls, deconstructing stereotypes, challenging statistics and loving every minute of it!
For more information please contact:
Jamaica Gilmer jgilmer@thebeautifulproject.org
The Beautiful. Project has been made possible in part by the sponsorship of the Southern Documentary Fund
Web site, SOHP How-to Guide
Finally signed on so I can add comments - first time to blog.
I had agreed to write discussion questions about this Web Site's How-to Guide. Find the site at http://www.sohp.org/ and then find the bottom labels. Click on "How to". Or, go to Outreach and then select "How to Guide & Forms".
What a great place to brainstorm some ideas for possible projects.
1. Much of the material is old (SOHP was founded in 1973 and has 3800+ interviews)and rich with history. Where on this site are the most current entries? I found that the Calendar has Spring 2008 events listed but none current.
2. Because some materials are outdated, such as the Budgeting for equipment itemized in March 2000, this site is best used selectively. What type of project would best use the actual interviews on this site?
3. The "How to Guide" includes "Ten Tips for Interviewers". The last tip is to "Remember, 'good interviewers never shine-only their interviews do.'" What practical suggestions can we share with each other that help us to keep the focus on the interviewee? Do news anchors today just keep the focus on the interviewee?
I hope I'm leaving my comment in the right place. In doing the "Getting Started" homework, and having to make a decision on what story to focus on...Something that puzzles me is how I am to have an idea about a story I don't yet know. What I mean is that so much if going to be learned and discovered through actually doing any project...it seems contrived to know the story before you begin and then pick people who you think will tell it the way you've imagined it. I guess starting with a title and a hunch about what the story will be is a good place?
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