An really amazing piece of student multimedia work from a great blog that you should subscribe to.
“UNC masters student Eileen Mignoni recently launched her thesis project and it is a definite must-see. “Facing Deportation” is a multimedia documentary site about families impacted by North Carolina’s immigration policies.”
“Mignoni elegantly blended beautiful stills and video to tell the stories of three families affected by immigration laws, …my favorite video was, “Phone Calls from Papi,” an intimate story about three little girls waiting for a phone call from their incarcerated dad.”
Not to be missed is the extended interview with creator Eileen Mignoni.
“I chose to do a documentary project on immigration because I kept reading all of these awful stories in the newspaper about traffic stops that turned into deportations. I began focusing on this topic in my documentary photo class where I wanted to do a story on the life of an undocumented immigrant because I couldn’t imagine what it was like to live with the fear that at any moment one could be taken from this life and sent home.”
Topics covered include her process gaining trust with her subjects, her choice on using music, and her achievement in teaching herself graphic design to incorporate graphics in the package.
Innovative Interactivity is a great blog from Tracy Boyer, an award-winning multimedia producer, specializing in Flash development and multimedia production. She is obtaining her masters degree at UNC-Chapel Hill, studying Human-Computer Interaction in the School’s Information Science program.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Thanks for the kind words! I’m glad you can help spread the word about this inspirational package.