Day 1

Unit 1

• Introductions and class overview
• What does it mean to do systematic analysis?

• Demo on short clips; practice with applications
• Discussion on types of films for analysis
• Compare film with text analysis (hyperresearch)
• Introduction to HyperResearch and HyperTranscribe:

• Basic coding of text
• Basic coding of video segments
• Relational queries between video segments
• Relational queries between video and audio segments
• Establishing code criteria via Boolean logic (Cinderella exercise)
• Hypothesis testing

Unit 2

• From ethnographic films to ethnographic research (illustration vs. data)
• Where filming fits into the anthropological research process
• The Still Camera:

• Shoot for the cut
• Multiple methods using still photography
• Photo elicitation
• Digital storytelling
• Basic settings for prosumer video cameras

• Practice with cameras

Day 2

Unit 1

1. Ethics of picture “taking”:
• Consents and Human Subjects
• Public vs. private spaces

2. Shooting Systematically:
• Storyboarding–incorporating the storyboard into planning your work
• Practice shooting a sequence-class shoot
• Review footage

Unit 2

• Visualizing concepts & slowing down our “looking”
• Hands-on practice with cameras to shoot footage for practice analysis:

• Discussion about what it means to “see” something
• How do we best capture behavior for analysis?
• Explaining the internal logic of a cultural phenomenon:

• Excerpt from Learning To Make Tortillas -Liz Cartwright
• Shoot for the cut
• In-camera edited short-4 teams
• Planning/storyboarding/thinking it through
• Shoot actions and review footage

Day 3

Unit 1

• Shoot on location in town
• Review footage

Unit 2

Theory workshop

—Refer to suggested readings list for the class. We’ll break into small groups and work on creatively thinking through how to design visual data gathering methods and strategies that can advance some of these basic anthropological theories (e.g. stigma, racism, embodiment, acculturation, affect, etc..) The readings should inspire your research imaginations…they are just a beginning point for discussions.

Day 4

Unit 1

1. Audio-Microphones
• Types of speech acts that can be captured-interviews vs. naturally occurring speech acts
• Giving back versions—making it useful
• Manipulation in post-production—creating new speech acts

2. Interviewing techniques on camera
• Basic do’s and don’ts
• Microphones and micing an interview
• Practice setting up and conducting interviews and focus groups

3. Non-linear digital editing basics
• Log and capture own footage
• Timeline basics
• Preparing video clips for analysis programs

Unit 2

• Presentation by Noldus software team of the Observer XT program and new remote data gathering tools.

Day 5

Unit 1

• Work as teams on final class video analysis projects

Unit 2

• Presentation of final class projects