The raw video footage used in these films was shot on location using a hand-held digital video camcorder (Panasonic model PV-GS500, 3CCD, with 12x optical zoom lens and a built-in stereo microphone). I myself was a tourist at these performances and attempted for the most part to mimic the sort of documentation tourists practice. I did, however, purposefully capture footage of tourists themselves at these events. Editing of this footage and the addition of still photos and captions was accomplished using iMovie software.<\/p>\n
For each film listed below, references are provided to a few sources that provide background information about the traditional forms of music, dance and theatre that appear in it.<\/p>\n
Hawaii: A Day at the Polynesian Cultural Center<\/a><\/p>\n Cambodia: Dinner Show at Angkor Wat<\/a><\/p>\n Burma: Marionette Show at a Bagan Restaurant<\/a><\/p>\n Egypt: Cultural Show Luncheon Cruise on the Nile<\/a><\/p>\n Turkey: Music Concert and Whirling Dervishes Ceremony<\/a><\/p>\n Turkey: Ottoman Empire Military Music at an Istanbul Museum<\/a><\/p>\n Croatia: Encounters with a Folk Dance of the Dubrovnik Region<\/a><\/p>\n Indonesia: Javanese Performing Arts in a Sultan\u2019s Palace<\/a><\/p>\n Indonesia: A Javanese Dance Drama Show<\/a><\/p>\n Sri Lanka: Kandyan and Low Country Dance Show<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The raw video footage used in these films was shot on location using a hand-held digital video camcorder (Panasonic model PV-GS500, 3CCD, with 12x optical zoom lens and a built-in stereo microphone). I myself was a tourist at these performances and attempted for the most part to mimic the sort of documentation tourists practice. I … Continue reading “Films”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}