Barbara Cummings

Convergence Semester Project

Brown/Ferguson Project/The Tragedy unfolds!

21st October 2015

OVERVIEW

The goal of this project is to create a transmedia physical and virtual space that explores police brutality and its impact on Black youth, families and communities through the lens of Newark, NJ. 
The project will comprise three components:

1. A physical exhibit and film screening to be held on Rutgers- Newark and Essex County College campuses in February 2016 .

2. A web-based exhibit and crowdsourced portal to the black lives matter movement and movement to end police brutality.

Protestors

The Ferguson project is directed by Essex County College graduate and Rutgers-Newark student Barbara Cummings. Advisors include Professor Jennifer Wager and Dr. Margaret Stephens. The footage of the Mike Brown/ferguson incident will be displayed in a clear and organized manner. I project to influence the audience and my colleagues that curaraton is creative  approach to display a factual information to the audience through a documentary.  This film is a great marketing strategy as a presentation. The documentary will provide another view  of the incident including interviews, professional opinions of community activist,  and students. Most times information edited doesn’t give us a clear picture of a specific event but my intention is to give a story from a student's perspective. I went to Ferguson along with two of my fellow colleagues in attempt to capture truth through our eyes vs other version of edited stories that was given through the various media outlets. We felt a sense of responsibility as producer to capture and the audience another sense of being the judge of truth. We then project for you to analyze  the rare unedited work from your own perspective. You and then forced as social media critics  to see the truth through write the story from our story. We as the producers  want you to take this journey and maybe motivate you to understand that black live matter take a stance to stop police brutality. This is our strategize their to take a bit out of crime through curation. Research will be done to display how the Ferguson tragedy yet unfolds in the good, bad indifferent, true as well as controversy issues. This process will not force a particular format, I will collaborate with Essex County students, Professor Wager, and Dr. Stephens throughout the  project  The web based project will display a diverse collection of videos and create a way for the viewer to analyze this form of content vs other forms of content from the same incident and from their own opinion of the issues. You make your choice, you are know the judge of unedited footage/image and interviews.        
               

Building burned during riots

The specification  of this Ferguson, will be a collocation of interview, videos, events condensed to media images. We will have manual research, viewing, reviewing, interviews  and vetting(making critical examination of footage). Overall the goal is for all viewers of film screening a better understanding of police brutality, black lives matter movement from the Mike Ferguson incident.

actual place where Mike Brown shot 

Friends of Mike Brown walking around spot where he was shot

Works Cited

Drehle, David Von, et al. "The Tragedy Of Ferguson. (Cover Story)." Time 184.8 (2014): 22. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 31 Oct. 2015.
"The Cop." New Yorker 91.23 (2015): 44-1. Literary Reference Center. Web. 2 Nov. 2015.

Lydia, Smith. "Mike Brown Shooting: US Journalists Ryan Reilly and Wesley Lowery Tweet and Film Arrest in Ferguson McDonalds." International Business Times: United Kingdom Edition (UK) 14 Aug. 2014: NewsBank. Web. 2 Nov. 2015.  

Kathleen Caulderwood @kcaulderwood, k.caulderwood@i. "Mike Brown Update: Ferguson Shooting Protesters March, National Guard Close By." International Business Times (USA) 18 Aug. 2014: NewsBank. Web. 2 Nov. 2015.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQL-HHTS5a0