Researching and Producing Visual Ethnomusicology in Peru: on Ethnographic Videos and Television Documentaries
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Raúl R. Romero [1]
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[1] Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Perú
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- Localización: Ethnomusicology and audiovisual communication: selected papers from the MusiCam 2014 Symposium / coord. por Enrique Cámara de Landa, Leonardo D'Amico, Matías Isolabella, Yoshitaka Terada, 2016, ISBN 978-84-608-9291-5, págs. 221-231
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article describes an experience in creating two different kinds of ethnographic products in the realm of visual ethnomusicology in Peru. The first one was a set of short programs for educational purposes edited by a team of anthropologists and ethnomusicologists using ethnographic archival recordings from the Institute of Ethnomusicology of the Catholic University of Peru. The second one was a made-for-television set of documentaries produced jointly with the national television channel and its team of professional filmmakers. Here we explain the similarities and differences of both types of production processes, attempting to answer a main question: What are the differences between making ethnographic videos and made-for-TV documentaries? This article addresses the issue of audiences, filming techniques, the practice of anthropological methods in recording visual data, the use of the camera, and the final editing process. Despite the contrasts between both types of visual products, we conclude that both of them share the attempt to communicate an “ethnographic truth”, which we here define as a sequence of events that is designed to be conveyed as found in its original context. In video production, this means using neither recreations of ritual performances, nor any technique of fictional filmmaking.
