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This is a photo introduction created as a way of presenting myself to other YouTube users, particularly those I contact for my research about makeup tutorials.
I intended to produce something that is quick to watch, showing a bit of my life but mainly portraying my career - to justify why I am studying what I am studying.
This is what came out and I hope you like it!
I am 40 years old now so there are a lot of stories to tell, but since our digital and printed photos are back home in São Paulo, I had to choose from those I found online on Facebook and Flickr.
Also I forgot to credit the song and the artist I used for this video. The performer is a Brazilian musician and composer called Moreno Veloso and the song’s name is Imbalança.
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Ludo - or Ludovic Coupaye - is currently a lecturer at UCL’s anthropology department. I wanted to discuss with a more experienced anthropologist the fact I will take make up classes as part of this project and he agreed to record this interview.
I could make the research only by talking to people and hearing their experiences with makeup, but i thought experimenting with makeup would give me insights that I would not have otherwise.
Ludo’s comments were really relevant so I decided to publish it here even though the sound is bad - because we are far from the camera and near the air conditioning engine outside of the department.
If you are interested on anthropology, you will profit from making an effort to listen to this quick interview.
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The first person I interviewed for this project was Chloe, who is also a student of UCL’s digital anthropology programme. We had a 2 hour conversation and as I was showing her this blog, she suggested I include a video talking more about the research. I had the camera with me and she helped executing the idea.
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Hi! I recorded this video with the help of my UCL friends Hanna Rose and Matilda, and they both said they’d have prefered a more formal video - kind of like this - to portray seriousness.
I understand what they are comming from, but I chose to do something that is more like the videos I am watching where a lot of the value comes from the person’s attempt to be natural and to joke about his or her silliness on camera.
I had shown a first attempt to make this video to my supervisor Danny Miller and he told me to keep the format and only try to make something shorter.
Anyways, if you want to tell me what you think, I can reconsider and try something different.
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This was a suggestion I got from Hanna Rose, my friend and colleage at the department. To us, studying the field, what anthropology is is kind of obvious. That is why we chose to be here. But I recall hearing the name and that it had an interesting sound that suggested a misterious meaning.
Anyways, I agreed with Hanna that some of you might be interested in understanding what is anthropology and what is its relation with YouTube tutorials. So this quick video covers rather nicely the first part of the question. And you can hear - also in 3 minutes - our professor Lane DeNicola explaining what we do at the digital anthropology programme.
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I am very thankful to have Lane as our professor and course tutor, especifically because although he knows a lot - he is an anthropologist AND a programmer - he is very approachable and discrete at the same time.
I had the idea to record something like this to explain what digital anthropology is and also to give to the visitors of this page a proof that I am a student of this programme.
I spoke to Lane that same day at the end of a seminar last week, we met two hours later and the video came out great. It is short (for academic terms at least) and it covers everything I asked.
By the way, if you want to know more about our programme, here is it’s official page.
