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The Neighborhood Video Project works with youth to create video documentaries in three Saint Paul neighborhoods: University Corridor, West 7th, and the East Side. Click on a neighborhood in the map below to view blog entries, see photos, and watch videos from each area.
Help NVP Teach Filmmaking in West 7th
SPNN's Neighborhood Video Project is looking for a Filmmaker Consultant to work with us as we create video documentaries with the West 7th neighborhood in Saint Paul.
If you have filmmaking experience and knowledge of the West 7th neighborhood, we'd love to hear from you! Click the link below for a full position description and to find out how to apply.
Neighborhood Video Project: Interview Day
Sai, Abdimajid, and Falis conduct an interview with a Skyline resident, while her family looks on.
This week at Neighborhood Video Project, we held an Interview Day and invited Skyline Tower residents to come speak to us about their lives. Our class is exploring how Skyline has changed over the years, and part of that process is asking people questions to create an oral history. We interviewed older residents and teenagers, people who'd been born at Skyline, and people who'd only lived there a year or less. We talked to people from Africa, from Asia, and from Minnesota. We based many of our questions on the Minnesota Historical Society's Oral History Guidelines, which help community members interview their family members and friends about their lives.
Neighborhood Video Project: Historians in Training
Istar, Barlin and Barwaqo examine some primary sources.
This past week at NVP we've been hard at work doing research and pre-production work for our documentaries, which will hopefully capture some of the experiences of generations who've lived at Skyline and the ways in which transporation has impacted the neighborhood.
Our topics were in some ways inspired by our Halloween trip to the History Center's Open House Exhibit. During our topic selection discussion we considered the number of families who lived in the MNHS Open House (50) with the number of families who have lived at Skyline (in the thousands) and were excited about all the potential stories to tell even as we acknowledged the impossibility of getting even a representative view of those families' experiences.