| Are you filmmakers or researchers? What 'normal' person is going to let a stranger into their homes to film them? Don’t people act in front of the camera? How do you find willing participants for the studies? What about ethics? What happens with the film? So participants don’t feel like they are on Big Brother? How many people do you work with in one of these studies? In the field do ethnographers work in pairs or individually? If you are working with a small sample how representative is it going to be? Is 3 days of fieldwork enough? How many hours footage do you capture? What is Clip Bank, the on line resource? If you have anymore questions send Nick an he’ll do his best to answer your questions. |
No. While ethnographers
are on fieldwork they usually stay at a small B&B nearby, you know
the ones that have showers that just dribble and have uncontrollable
temperatures and the bathrooms have just one of those mini pink bars
of soap that turn to mush in 4 minutes. Also you wouldn’t want to actually live with some of our researchers. During filming in Philadelphia, room service at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel voted one of our ethnographer’s rooms – room 306, as being the messiest, most disorganised room they had ever seen. |
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