Another Hurricane Evac Adventure Story: Hurricane Helene, 2024

Helene is thus far believed to have claimed 220 lives and this number may continue to grow as communities take stock and this is only the human body count. Read More

NADA/UCLA Film Project #2

This film is a larger work compiled of 12 smaller works: Ethnographic stories from Master practitioners, Clinicians, mental health professionals, etc. Read More

The Role of Editor in Arts-Based Research: Influence and Mitigation of Influence Through Editorial Choices

This video was a joint effort with Dr.Charles Vanover (USF) and Bob Devin Jones (and many others named in the video) as part of an arts-based qualitative inquiry into teaching and learning experiences in Chicago Public schools. The video is based on a stage dramatization of one teacher’s interview transcript (Vanover, 2018). The performance script… Read More

Us: A World & Trace Taylor Production

Is this ethnography? The making of this film was extremely difficult. It takes the viewer from horror to the possibility of joy. I suffered a tremendous emotional downturn for the first four months working on those first three acts. While the two final sections pulled me back towards the living, it took another eight months… Read More

360: in the Field and the Editing Room

Three months prior to the purchase of 360 equipment, it was necessary for our nonprofit video team to clarify our potential predominant applications of the medium. This helped us foresee to some extent what types of environments we’d be filming and the challenges those environments might pose. This clarification provided the parameters within which we… Read More

How to Catch a Fish: Another early Learning 360 Application Experience (2017)

The cool part of this Experience was that during the underwater shots we lost one of the cameras when the steel leader line broke and sent and sent it to the bottom of the channel between 8 and 10 feet down. My first reaction: “Did that just…” Then I texted my friend Louise. “Camera lost… Read More

Homeless in St. Pete & Tampa, June 2018

This film was shot over the course of Summer 2018. We had some challenges working in the field and finding people in the industry who would talk to us about the issue. The last week of shooting, we were referred to the officer and deputy who work directly with homeless individuals from all circumstances. Their… Read More

The Experience (2018)

© by Trace Taylor (2018) I did two years of equipment research and field project applications in order to incorporate 360 into my immersive experience curricula. There is no excuse for a large majority of youth to lack this kind of experience and knowledge. It’s 2019. This and other in depth exposure makes the difference… Read More