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?


When you say Naked Eye ethnographers live with people, do you
mean they sleep at their house?


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.
  Initially yes. People do act in front of the camera to begin with because they feel observed. After a while (typically ½ day) a skilled ethnographer should start to blend into the background and make participants feel they are fine to spend their time with them. Part of the skill of the fieldworker is to be able to immerse themselves in a way that is very natural and makes people feel comfortable. This is also partly dependant on time. It is also for this reason that we spend days with people not hours.

Unsurprisingly most participants just want to continue with their normal day-to-day routines. After a while we aren’t the most interesting people in their home. Even the family dog stops staring at us.