Ants Documentary

Thanks for signing up for this exciting documentary production class. Over the course of three months we will be making a documentary about ants. The blog below is a place to share links, video, images and more during the production process. If you need more information on how to use the blog, feel free to check out "How to..." Tutorials blog. You can subscribe or unsubscribe in the "Group Notifications" on the right hand side of the browser. If you are not involved in the production and would like more information, please contact shaun[at]cctvcambridge.org.

By Amy The Earth Moves is a short documentary that examines the role of science and religion in our society through the lens of Bertolt Brecht’s play “Life of Galileo.” The film follows the trials and...
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By Amy Be Live: A documentary short by Thorne Anderson Screening at the CCTV studio on March 1st, 2009 at 7:00pm, with a discussion on documentary making with Thorne to follow. Hosted by the Project...
By Lorraine Hey everybody, The Boston League Of Women Wrestlers will be throwing down this Thursday night at Harper's Ferry in Allston. I'll be taking an extended hiatus from wrestling after this show, so I...
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By Amy "Ants", the 18 minute documentary produced by CCTV's own Project Documentary, will be showing at The Midway Cafe in JP this Saturday (Sept. 1st) at 9:30pm. It will be shown as a part of Nerd Nite...
By Amy Click To Play Get a bug's eye view into the complex and intriguing social lives of ants, and meet six scientists who have dedicated their lives to studying them. CCTV and...
By ongj These are scenes from the movie that we might want to reference. Usually they're of the movie's ants doing things that are, as Stefan would say, impossibly anthropomorphized (human behaviors, human...
By Amy Here's a document with the information I think we will need for the title credits/lower thirds. I just listed everyone alphabetically, although they don't have to be. I doubled checked all the...
By ongj Sarah found a lot of warfare footage on archive.org and Amy Steptoe downloaded the files. Shaun and Amy Mertl also went to BU and got some footage of ants fighting. We can now pad out the warfare...
By ongj These are items we're going to include in the Credit Sequence. Add any more suggestions to this post. Crew: 6 people plus 3 instructors Composer: Eli Kao Thanks to: The 6 interviewees Aida Khan (...
By jamie obrien I've been riding my bike for 6 days straight. I threw a DVD in the mail to you guys. It has some migrant farm workers on it. I hope you can decode it and the quality will be up to snuff... It's...
By ongj Here is a transcript of what I've done. Remember, the wiki now requires a name and e-mail address for access, but you can just type in anything that looks valid. http://projdoc.pbwiki.com/Technology...
By Lorraine Hi Everyone, After you are all super stressed out and tired from trying to meet the edit deadline, just give up! No, I'm kidding - Just take a healthy break and come see B.L.O.W.W. - the Boston...
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By Amy Hi Everyone, Sarah and I did a lot of work on warefare tonight - and then forgot to save. So, Sarah plan on coming in tomorrow night, and knows exactly what she wants to do to get that sequence...
By Amy I came in today and worked on the intro/ant biology section. I made a few changes: Moved the parts about Corrie's tattoos and ant movies to the beginning Put at least one segment from each...
Ant brain by Mario Muscedere
By Amy I added a folder of brain images and videos that Mario Muscedere gave me for use in the film. It's under the IMAGES tab. There are microscopy images of leafcutter and Pheidole brains, and couple...
By ongj I created this mostly by copying and pasting from Sarah's quote transcript. Just in case we want to use the audio portion of his interview where he's wearing glasses, I transcribed that also.
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