It is an alternative means of presenting scholarly results for an audience. Medium of ‘film’ as part of early ethnography. Use of visual technologies for collecting raw input for rating or coding – like the note-making in the field. In other words, it is an ensembling of technologies in recording & editing – for presentation. Its advantages over note-making are 1. Audiovisual inscriptions may be reviewed by multiple observers that were not present when the events transpired, 2. The inscriptions may be stored, 3. Thus, event records may be re-analyzed and retrieved by future generations of researchers.
Ethnography is a qualitative method began in early 20th cent., in Social AnthropologyA reaction against positivism. Emphasis on interpretative methodology , in terms of meaning adequacy. Thorough description of a particular stratum of the social world
More specifically, LET seeks to generate Social awareness through short films, conduct Video ethnography workshop, creating socially relevant short films to make a video library.
Some of the suggested themes/issues for the short film are,
• Waste management
• Pre-marital affairs
• Child abuse
• Migrant labour and their problems
• Extra marital affairs
• Exploitation of women in media
• Cyber crime
• Old age
• Abortion
• Child labour
• Commercial sex work
• Influence of media
• Road safety
• Competition among professional students
• Valued degradation
• E- waste
• Organ donation
• Suicidal tendency among adolescence
• Children of separated family
• Sand mining and common man
• Tribal issues.
• Impact of modern gadgets among youth
• Blood donation
Film screening & Review of the award-winning short film – “A social life” on 30/10/2020
Faculty in charge :-Fr.Saji.S.J & Dr.Angelo Mathew
Student in charge:-