Audience Research

Because both Josh and I wrote papers that dealt with the idea of adaptation, and specifically film adaptation, we've been looking into alternatives to the typical research paper that involve adapting that traditional form into a video medium. Dr. Burton pointed us to one interesting source called "Dance your PhD". Essentially it is a contest for PhD students to produce a video of their science based research as some sort of interpretative dance (the link includes this year's winner and a more thorough explanation of the contest).
Another interesting place we found is simply titled Video Essays. I came across this as part of my work on the video essay project mentioned in an earlier post that involved making short films from personal essays. These video essays are more academic so it is more applicable to our focus but I was unable to find any information about who brought them all together and what their reasoning was.
On a related, but slightly less applicable note, we found a story on NPR that talked about high school seniors that are using video essays to apply to colleges. It doesn't exactly apply to our focus of exploring alternatives to the traditional research paper but I thought it was relevant to our discussion to see another example of the medium of film being applied in new ways.