Melanie Thompson


Digital Humanities Course Trailer

Final Execution

Original Concept

This course trailer began as a group project for a month long research course: Digital Humanities Asia. We were to create a trailer mock up for a future introductory class on Digital Humanities. Following the class my professor hired me to take my groups original concept and produce a professional trailer for the course.

Animations

Original Illustrator Designs

CO LSEN and Better Know a Colorado Border

Postcards From Taiwan’s Indigenous Schools

Postcard from Lanyu 蘭嶼 – Home of the Tao people

Postcard from Fushan 福山 – Home of the Atayal People

Postcard from Alishan 阿里山 – Home of the Tsou People

For my Fulbright Fellowship I produced short documentaries in three of Taiwan’s indigenous communities about the effort to reintroduce indigenous traditional knowledge into school curriculums after decades of suppression. These video postcards were used to foster ties between Austronesian students (specifically indigenous schools in Taiwan and Maori schools in New Zealand), as well as promote solidarity for indigenous education in Taiwan.