Groupo Projectos

My group consists of me and Camile.

Our idea for the group project is mutli-tiered. First we'd like to create a play loosely based on an ethnographic approach--but without the ethnographic ethics in the sense that we will create five characters and build scripts for them based on short interviews we'll do with them in class, but the characters we create will be stereotypes based on the interviews. The questions we ask will be formed to bring out easy stereotypes in our informants. For example, the question, "what is your favorite music" might elicit a response that an informant likes country music. They might then turn into a character named Bubba who wears a red bandana. The point is that we want to be blatantly clear that we are creating stereotyped characters. Our class mates will be aware of this when we announce that we are looking for volunteer informants. Those who do not want to participate don't have to. Once we know who is interested in volunteering, we'll pass numbers around and randomly choose 5 informants, with whom we will conduct short 10-15 minute interviews.

Once we have our information, Camile and I will create characters and develop a script so that we have a play/story. This play will be acted out with hand and mouth PUPPETS as a puppet show. We will film scenes separately so that we will be ble to develop a "choose-your-own-puppet-show" type presentation online. Viewers will have the task/opportunity to click on links as they come to the end of a scene which ill direct them to a new scene and an alternate development in the play so that each viwer's experience will be a little different. In addition, we hope to create at least one looped scene, similar to 12 Blue, where a viewer will continuously return to a random scene and will have to back track and find a new path to the end of the play/puppet show. Our hope is that this will be a light, comical show in which informants will be able to identify their contributions to a certain character, and where at the same time, classmates will enjoy the process of finding their way through the visual narrative.

We will include intrview transripts and the script we write on our websites.