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Welcome to the Neighborhood (Full)
While working in a low-income neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA, I came to understand that the community was suffering from a lack of a cohesive identity. While many organizations and individuals within and outside of the community were committed to helping to develop the community, conflicting opinions present within the neighborhood made it difficult to improve anything. This documentary began as a large qualitative interviewing project used to come to better understand the problems present in the community as a whole. What it became was a rich community document, one that identifies the key conversations within the neighborhood as opposed to attempting to simplify complex dynamics into a single solution. This documentary has been shown within the neighborhood and to the neighboring university as an orienting device, so that those who plan to enter the community may have a better grasp on the most prominent issues being discussed in the neighborhood at that time. Please follow the link below to watch the entire documentary.
This documentary brought together different community voices, allowing individuals to address issues that they found to be important. One of the issues that was frequently brought up was the relationship between the neighborhood and a nearby university. I reorganized portions of the interviews that spoke to this topic in order to create the appearance of conversations between individuals that never met in reality. This is displayed in this screenshot.
Salient quotes help to underline the themes being presented in a documentary as well as helping to subtly transition between subjects.
