Call for Documentary Preproduction Research: Deadline December 5, 2011

The Documentary Division of the Broadcast Education Association is accepting Preproduction Research Proposals for documentary projects that are not yet in production. Authors of the top three (3) research proposals will be invited to pitch their projects at a session during the convention and receive feedback from a panel of academic and industry judges. This year, the research/pitch competition winner will receive $100 to help kick-start their documentary project!

Purpose: This initiative is designed to recognize, through blind, academic peer review, the original preproduction research involved in producing a high quality documentary. The proposal process is intended to demonstrate the academic and intellectual rigor involved in researching a potential documentary project. The proposal should be for a documentary NOT currently in production and MUST include the following standard sections presented in the following order:

1. Project Title & One-page Summary of the proposal and project.
2. Treatment: narrative description of the proposed work, including citations for reference material as for aconference paper or peer-reviewed publication.
3. Significance: narrative summary, including citations for sources, of the importance of the documentary topic, method, and/or creative treatment. What does this project contribute to the field of Documentary Studies? What method, sources, evidence, or other components will distinguish this work? Why produce this documentary?
4. Literature Review: narrative summary of existing literature and bibliography, including documentary films or programs, on which the project is based, using APA or Chicago style for works cited.
5. Media Industry Review & Market Analysis: including comparative analysis of existing works or rationale for producing a documentary in the event it has not been treated before. Also consideration of intended audience, exhibition forums, distribution plans, and goals for distribution.
6. Content Sources: listing potential key interview subjects and statement of their commitment to the project; lists and locations of available documents, photographs, artifacts, or similar materials required to complete the project; inventory of evidence in-hand.
7. Cost, Budget & Schedule: listing of travel, material, and related costs; available funding and sources for funding (in-hand, in-kind & pending); proposed schedule for pre-production, production, and post- production; listing of all elements completed to date.

Submission: Authors should remove all identification references from the entire work and encode the materials into an Adobe Acrobat “pdf” file. Email two (2) pdf files: one containing the complete proposal plus a second with full contact info, to ogden@cwu.edu by Monday, December 5, 2011.

For Information Contact:

Dr. Michael R. Ogden, Chair, BEA Documentary Division Film & Video Studies, Dept. of Communication
400 East University Way, MS 7438
Central Washington University

Ellensburg, WA 98926
Phone: 509.963.1067 Email: ogden@cwu.edu

NOTE: The goal of this competition is to recognize peer-reviewed documentary preproduction research using standards that apply to competitive conference papers &/or publications in support of academic promotion and tenure. As such, proposals will be blind reviewed separate from the pitch competition. During BEA 2012, the top three proposal authors will each have the opportunity to pitch their project to a panel of academic &/or industry judges as well as before an attending audience of their peers.

* The Documentary Preproduction Research competition is separate from the Division Paper Competition.

2012 Calls For Panels, Papers, Nominations & Research

Each year BEA offers opportunities for faculty members to promote their research and accomplishments.  This is a partial list of what BEA has available.  Please visit www.beaweb.org for more information. 

BEA2012 Research Symposium: Media Management and Economics Research in a Transmedia Environment is accepting faculty and student submissions for its 2012 paper competition.  Papers must adhere to the symposium theme. Deadline: December 1, 2011

New Faculty Research Grant (Word doc.) seeks to promote scholarship through achievement by untenured broadcast and electronic media faculty. A cash grant of $1,000 will be rewarded for research projects.  Deadline: December 5, 2011

 BEA2012 Faculty Research-in-Progress - BEA’s Research Division invites faculty to submit research-in-progress to be considered for presentation and discussion at BEA2012.  Research projects may focus on a wide range of topics as generally represented within BEA, but should be at a stage in which feedback and suggestions are appropriate.  Deadline: December 15, 2011

BEA2012 Student Research-in-Progress - BEA’s Research Division invites faculty to submit research-in-progress to be considered for presentation and discussion at BEA2012.  Research projects may focus on a wide range of topics as generally represented within BEA, but should be at a stage in which feedback and suggestions are appropriate.  Deadline: December 15, 2011

11th Annual Best of Festival of Media Arts is a national refereed exhibition of faculty creative activities and is a national showcase for students’ work.  The Festival includes recognition and an awards showcase.  “Best of” winners receive $1,000.Accepting Submissions: November 15 – December 15, 2011

22^nd Annual Kenneth Harwood Outstanding Dissertation Award offers $1,000 for the outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in broadcasting and electronic media. The award was established through gifts started by Professor Kenneth Harwood and donations from friends of BEA.  Deadline: January 9, 2012

30^th Annual Distinguished Education ServiceAward(DESA) is awarded to an individual who has made significant and lasting contributions to the American system of electronic media education by a singular achievement or continuing service of electronic media education. Nominations: January 9, 2012

2012 Lifetime Achievement in Scholarship Award (formerly Distinguished Scholar Award – DSA) nominees should have made a significant contribution to research and scholarship involving broadcast and electronic media. Contributions should be evidenced by related publication in books and journals, over at least twenty years. Nominations: January 9, 2012

NATPE Faculty Development Grant Program (Summer 2012) Gives college and university media educators the opportunity to gain firsthand experience in a professional media environment. www.natpe.org Deadline: March 15, 2012

Winners will be recognized at BEA2012 Annual Convention

 April 15 – 18, 2012 | Las Vegas Hilton

2011 Festival of Media Arts Photo Gallery

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BEA 2011 was a smashing success

left to right: Maria Moore, website manager & newsletter editor; Michael Ogden, chair; Dan Kimbrough, Media Arts Festival Manager/Student Competition; and Leah Mangrum, Media Arts Festival Manager/Faculty Competition. Missing from photo: Greg Luft, vice-chair.

Congratulations to all who participated. Pictured above is your documentary division leadership, elected at the conference in April.  For a list of those honored at the 2011 Festival of Media Ars click here http://beafestival2011.wordpress.com/

Division Member News Fall 2011

If you have good news to share, email mmoore2@ilstu.edu, our division website manager & newsletter editor.  It will be posted here.

My new book “Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest” has just been published by the University of Illinois Press. From the Press: “As World War II drew to a close and radio news was popularized through overseas broadcasting, journalists and dramatists began to build upon the unprecedented success of war reporting on the radio by creating audio documentaries. Focusing particularly on the work of radio luminaries such as Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly, Norman Corwin, and Erik Barnouw, Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest traces this crucial phase in American radio history, significant not only for its timing immediately before television, but also because it bridges the gap between the end of the World Wars and the beginning of the Cold War.”

More info is here: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/85hwh8bm9780252036118.html

submitted by: Matt Ehrlich, Professor, University of Illinois

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Our film “The Death of an Imam” was nominated for an Emmy and has beenscreen at several film festivals.

Another film “The Kings of Flint” shared Best of Show and a $1,000 prize at the Student Sustainability Film Festival held in Portland, Oregon.

submitted by: Geri Zeldes, Associate Professor, Michigan State University