Date: 2026-04-27
Conduct your research. Collect data, make observations, perform your analysis, and create your documentary/podcast/multimedia piece. Stay flexible: research rarely goes exactly as planned, and adapting your approach is part of the learning. Complete your project and, importantly, reflect on your research process. What did this method reveal? What did it obscure? How did your question evolve? What would you do differently?
An experimental documentary, podcast, audio essay, video essay, or similar multimedia piece that uses one or more research methods explored in the course. This should demonstrate your methodology in practice, whether that’s ethnographic observation, critical fabulation, archival investigation, or hybrid approaches.
This accompanies your creative project. Reflect on:
1. Evolution: How did your question, approach, and project change from proposal to completion? What caused those changes?
2. Method in Practice: How did your chosen research method shape what you discovered? What did it let you see? What did it obscure or leave out? Would a different method have produced different insights?
3. Form & Content: How did the creative/documentary form shape your research? What could you express through audio/video/multimedia that you couldn’t in writing? What challenges did the form present?
4. Failures & Surprises: What didn’t work? What surprised you? What would you do differently if you started over?
5. Epistemological Reflection: What does this process teach you about how we know things? About the relationship between method and knowledge? About your own way of thinking and investigating?
Avoid generic reflection (“I learned a lot”). Be specific about methodological insights. Quote from your own field notes, failed drafts, or earlier exercises. Show your thinking process.