Video Documentary As Alternative Media Practice

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Video Documentary As Alternative Media
Practice

• Educating the Public about Sexual and Gender
  Minority Issues

Ji Hoon Park
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Background / Influence

• Critical Media Literacy Simon Fraser University
• Visual Ethnography/ Community Media University
  of Pennsylvania

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Production Courses at Hope College

• Introduction to Digital Media Production
• Media Literacy
• Social Documentary Theory and Practice

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Background / Influence

• Critical Media Literacy Simon Fraser University
• Barry Truax, Stephen Kline, David Murphy, Martin
  Gotfrit
• Visual Ethnography/ Community Media University
  of Pennsylvania
• Larry Gross, Paul Messaris, Katherine Sender

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Emphasis on Practice

• Education should enable us to make a difference
  in the world
• Media production as a tool for progressive social
  changes
• Theory informs practice

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Transgender Representation
Man or Woman?
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Transgender
Documentary

• TWO GOALS
• To educate the general public
• To promote awareness of critical health issues
  (e.g. HIV/AIDS) and increase empowerment within
  the transgender communities

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CRITICAL ISSUES
In the Transgender Documentary Making
As An Alternative Media Practice
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Communication
Ethics
Collaboration
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• Portraying Stereotypical Subjects

In Non-Stereotypical Ways
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"Latina, Rome Their Family"
(USA, 2004) Dir. Ji Hoon Park
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Audience Consideration

• Misinterpretation
• Oppositional Reading
• Collaboration with other filmmakers
• A discussion session
• A lesson plan

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Start with the Basics
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• I Am Who I Am
• My Life As a Transsexual

(USA, 2003) Dir. Ji Hoon Park
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• Romanticizing the Trans-Community

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"Toward Awareness, Empowerment and Unity "
(USA, 2004) Dir. Ji Hoon Park