Documentary Video Research Articles

Effectiveness of Web-supported Videos on Students’ Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking Skills and Three-dimensional Learning

While traditional teaching methods such as face-to-face lectures, training, and mentoring have been utilised in the educational process, the importance of web-supported materials was better underscored with the advent of the pandemic. Documentary videos, prepared with scientific data, serve as significant web-supported materials. The aim of this research was to find out the effectiveness of web-supported videos on associate degree school students' academic achievement, critical thinking skills, and three-dimensional learning in science. The study employed a pre-post-test design, a type of quasi-experimental research, involving 42 associate degree school students enrolled in a child development programme. Data were collected using academic achievement tests, critical thinking skill tests, and three-dimensional learning scales, and analysed using non-parametric techniques. The two-month training revealed that web-supported videos contributed to the academic achievement and three-dimensional learning skills of students in understanding the concepts of the moon, sun, earth, and planets, though they did not have a significant effect on students' critical thinking skills.

A community action network-based intervention for improving knowledge of zoonoses among wildlife hunters and traders in Epe, Lagos, Nigeria.

The West Africa One Health project is a multi-country project designed to utilise the One Health approach and deploy the Community Action Networks (CAN), a concept rooted in the principles of community-based participatory research, to improve knowledge of high-risk communities on zoonoses. The majority of emerging zoonoses occur at the human-wildlife interface, of which wildlife hunters and traders are critical stakeholders. We assessed the effectiveness of a CAN-based intervention involving the use of a video documentary and case studies as model tools in improving the knowledge of zoonoses among wildlife hunters and traders in Epe, an established hunting community in Lagos State, Nigeria. A single-group pre-post design involving a total of 39 consenting registered wildlife stakeholders was adopted. A pre-tested, semi-structured, interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to obtain data on the participant's sociodemographic characteristics, awareness level, and knowledge of zoonoses pre and post CAN-based intervention. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics McNemar and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks tests at a 5% level of significance. The mean age of the participants was 46.7 ± 10.9 years. Most (76.9%) identified as male and had at least secondary education (89.7%). The number of participants who were aware that diseases could be contracted from animals and that it could be through inhalation and close contact increased significantly from 13 (33.3%), 2 (5.1%), and 9 (23.1%) pre-intervention to 37 (94.9%), 11 (28.2%), and 21 (53.8%) post-intervention, respectively. The overall median knowledge score increased significantly from 1 (Interquartile range (IQR): 0-2) pre-intervention to 3 (IQR: 2-4) post-intervention. The CAN-based intervention involving the use of a video documentary and case studies as model tools was effective in improving the knowledge of zoonoses among wildlife hunters and traders in the hunting community and may be beneficial for future practice.

THE IMPACT OF DOCUMENTARY DIGITAL STORYTELLING ON CRITICAL THINKING AND READING SKILLS IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

This study aims to evaluate the effect of a digital storytelling-based documentary video method in developing critical thinking skills on reading comprehension of secondary school students, considering learning style as a moderator. The method was applied to the experimental group, while the control group used the conventional method. The pretest results showed that the experimental group had an average score of 84.7, higher than the control group, which had an average score of 81.36. After the treatment, the experimental group showed a significant improvement with an average posttest score of 87.63, compared to the control group, which had an average score of 83.7. ANOVA analysis showed that learning style had a significant effect on critical thinking ability (sig = 0.036), while membership in the treatment or control group showed no significant effect (sig = 0.581). No significant interaction between learning style and group was found (sig = 0.171), indicating that the effect of learning style on critical thinking development was independent of the treatment group. This study confirmed that customizing learning methods according to students' learning styles can improve critical thinking skills in reading comprehension. However, the effectiveness of this method was not significantly affected by membership in the treatment or control group. Further research is needed to explore how this method can be optimized for different groups of students.

Cross-Curricular, Inquiry-Based Collaborative Learning in Support of Truth and Reconciliation

This project was conducted at Fort St. James Secondary School in the Nechako Lakes School District, which is in Northern British Columbia, Canada. Three high school teachers from different disciplines (Social Studies, Digital Media, and Carpentry) launched a cross-curricular inquiry-based project in partnership with local knowledge holders and School District 91, focusing on truth and reconciliation, which connected the learners in their high school with the broader community, including knowledge holders from the local Indigenous communities. Those engaged in the project examined questions around what truth and reconciliation meant to the learners and its significance. This project was completed in 2021 and resulting products included a legacy wall, installed as a permanent fixture in the school, containing individual learning represented in motifs, design of the feather using wood from around the world, and a video documentary containing interviews from school and community stakeholders.

EduMangrove SMAN 6 Tanjungpinang: Integrasi Multimedia Pembelajaran pada Proyek Kolaboratif Berkelanjutan untuk Pelestarian Pantai Sebauk Laut, Kota Tanjungpinang dari Abrasi

The EduMangrove community service activity at SMAN 6 Tanjungpinang aims to raise awareness and increase students' concern for the Sebauk Laut coastal environment through education by integrating creative and innovative learning multimedia in the form of documentary videos and video demonstrations about the importance of mangroves for preserving the Sebauk Laut beach from abrasion, as well as involving students in real action in a sustainable collaborative project to plant mangroves. This activity succeeded in increasing students' awareness and concern for the Sebauk Laut coastal environment. Apart from that, this activity also provides a significant increase in students' knowledge regarding the importance of the mangrove ecosystem as protecting the Sebauk Laut coastline from abrasion, as well as practical skills in planting mangroves properly and correctly in areas that are prone to abrasion. Evaluation was carried out through the distribution of pre- and post-education questionnaires, observations and interviews, which showed a significant increase in students' environmental awareness, knowledge and skills. The EduMangrove program shows the great potential of using multimedia learning in increasing environmental awareness and student involvement in coastal conservation efforts.

A JOURNEY THROUGH PLACES OF BELONGING

Via a journey through the academic background of the author, this article aims at articulating the importance of places of belonging for an older migrant population. This work focuses on the sense of attachment to and the identification with places inhabited in later life from the perspective of older Italians in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. This work offers reflections on ethnography, video documentary and oral history approaches for researchers in the field of social sciences, social gerontology and human geography. Keywords: Ageing, Migration, Place Attachment, Place Identity.

Cultural Therapy and Concern for the Archive. The Case of Documentary Video Archives by Tomáš Rafa

In this paper, the author explores current perspectives on contemporary art projects through the concept of the archive. By applying a theoretical framework termed “concern for the archive”, the author aims to elucidate complex relationships between the archive as a medium and the situated practices of contemporary art. The paper examines contemporary art as a form of temporary memory storage, particularly through the analysis of Tomáš Rafa’s documentary films. It addresses two key questions: What specific aspects of concern for the archive can be identified in political or activist contemporary art? How does concern for the archive differ from archival care, and why is this distinction important? In the first section, the author discusses the “zones of contact” in political activist art, highlighting the formation of dialogical structures and distinguishing them from scientific research and purely documentary creation. The second section traces the layers of artistic training in Grzegorz Kowalski's renowned studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where the author gained experience in organizing and documenting collective workshops. This part reveals the specifics of documentary video creation with its activist and archival overlaps. In the final sections, the author outlines a theoretical framework for interpreting documentary video pieces in relation to the concepts of archive, cultural trauma, and cultural therapy.

Stand-up documentary: An emerging narrative device in Yvonne Orji’s comedy

Stand-up documentary—the inclusion of video film footage in stand-up performances—is a growing trend in comedy specials. Gary Gulman in The Great Depresh and Whitmer Thomas in The Golden One are some of the earliest comedians to employ documentary clips in creating portraits of their real-life circumstances on stage. More recently, Yvonne Orji’s comedy special for Home Box Office (HBO) entitled Momma, I Made It! also utilizes documentary video films of the comedienne’s experience in Nigeria to bring the Nigerian experience closer to her American audience. In this article I bring to the academic mainstream the understudied subject of stand-up documentary in humour studies. Through close reading and nuanced analyses of the gig, I examine stand-up documentary as a novel device of narration through which Orji introduces her audience to life in Nigeria through an exposition of her experiences growing up. Accentuating the differences between Nigerians and Americans and playing on Nigerian stereotypes, the comedienne deploys the clips as precise proofs transitioning her American audience into the alternate Nigerian contexts in Momma, I Made It! I conclude that stand-up documentary enhances the credibility of the performance, shapes perceptions of Nigerians, and facilitates audience understanding of cultural contexts that would otherwise remain unfamiliar to them.

SwinTExCo: Exemplar-based video colorization using Swin Transformer

Video colorization represents a compelling domain within the field of Computer Vision. The traditional approach in this field relies on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to extract features from each video frame and employs a recurrent network to learn information between video frames. While demonstrating considerable success in colorization, most traditional CNNs suffer from a limited receptive field size, capturing local information within a fixed-sized window. Consequently, they struggle to directly grasp long-range dependencies or pixel relationships that span large image or video frame areas. To address this limitation, recent advancements in the field have leveraged Vision Transformer (ViT) and their variants to enhance performance. This article introduces Swin Transformer Exemplar-based Video Colorization (SwinTExCo), an end-to-end model for the video colorization process that incorporates the Swin Transformer architecture as the backbone. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms many other state-of-the-art methods in both quantitative and qualitative metrics. The achievements of this research have significant implications for the domain of documentary and history video restoration, contributing to the broader goal of preserving cultural heritage and facilitating a deeper understanding of historical events through enhanced audiovisual materials.

Pengembangan Media Video Pembelajaran Potensi Sumber Daya Alam pada Mata Pelajaran IPS di Kelas VIII SMP

This research aims to develop valid and practical learning video media to be used as a supporting media in the learning process. The research was conducted using a type of research and development (R&D) with a 4D development model. The development procedures of this development are defined, design, development, and disseminate. The findings of this study, namely the development of learning video media using the Wondershare Filmora application in social studies subjects for grade VIII of junior high school, have been carried out in accordance with the development procedure that produces learning media in the form of documentary learning videos. This product has gone through the validation stage, based on the assessment of the results of material validation from teachers in the field of social studies at SMPN 8 Payakumbuh and media validation, namely Curriculum and Educational Technology lecturers. The validation results from material experts have been categorized as "Very valid" with an average of 4.7. The validation results from media expert I have been categorized as "Very Valid" with an average of 4.9 and the results from media expert II have been categorized as "Very Valid" with an average of 4.9. In the results of the practical test of learning video media products, it is at an average of 4.3 with the category "Very Practical". Based on these results, it can be concluded that the learning video media using the Wondershare filmora application in social studies subjects is declared very valid and very practical

Overt Scientific Bias and Clandestine Acts by Trusted Scientists: The Flawed Application of the Linear No-threshold Model.

The Health Physics Society (HPS) released a video documentary on the history of the linear no-threshold (LNT) model in April 2022. It exposed many scientific and ethical failings of many leaders, influential scientists, and organizations that have resulted in the current system of radiological protection. Since then, the society received many comments; most were supportive, while a few criticized the video documentary as delivering an anti-LNT message. Shortly thereafter, many emails discovered via an independent Freedom of Information Act request revealed multiple layers of coordination between prominent people in the field of radiation protection to coopt the leadership within the HPS and suppress information they perceived or assumed to be contrary to a pro-LNT message. Many of these emails were published by JunkScience.com, an independent organization that exposes faulty scientific data and analyses used to advance special interests and hidden agendas. This Forum article is intended to document in the peer-reviewed literature the JunkScience.com findings of clandestine acts by trusted scientists within the radiation protection community. The emails exposed strong personal biases, actions taken by leaders within the National Commission on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) to "save the Society" from its "downward spiral," and actions taken by NCRP and HPS members serving on a National Academies of Sciences committee to suppress scientific information relevant to the debate about health effects in low-dose environments. These anti-science actions harm our entire profession and the trust that Congress bestows on our scientific organizations expecting to receive objective recommendations based on sound science. It is important that these events are recorded in the scientific literature from a historical perspective. The radiation protection community will be judged not by what is revealed in this article but by what actions are taken from here.

Green konsumerisme Sebagai Kritik Terhadap Peran Manusia Dalam Gerakan Lingkungan

As public awareness and government pressure increases, industries are undertaking "green marketing" efforts. Green marketing is a combination of activities, including product modifications, changes to the production process, packaging changes, and advertising modifications to promote environmentally friendly products (Mishra and Sharma, 2014). Green marketing seeks to tempt green consumers in an effort to expand the market and increase profits. Environmentally friendly production practices are no longer seen as an obligation, but rather as a strategic business tactic that is profitable. Thus, green consumerism is part of green capitalism that seeks to reduce environmental impacts by utilizing market forces and profit motives (Scales, 2014). Scales also adds that green consumerism refers to the formation of a new commodity fetishism, whose impact is greater than it seems. Because in trying to provide information about the "greenness" of a product, green consumerism simplifies what green is. Environmental impacts are simplified and abstract concepts such as "green" are reduced to labels, symbols and metrics. This can direct consumers' focus to one issue and forget about others. Departing from the facts above, this paper will provide an understanding of how biased the role of humans in environmental preservation is today. Using descriptive qualitative research methods by focusing on literature reviews and research data from journals and documentary videos related to invisible hand practices and the ecogreen industry.

The Attitude of Women on the Manufacturing of the Indonesian Ulama Council of North Sumatra Regarding the Documentary Video of the Polemic of Polygamy in Indonesia: Sharing Heaven on Vice Indonesia's Youtube Channel

This research examines the cognitive, affective and conative responses of women administrators of the North Sumatra Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) to the documentary video "Polygamy Polemic in Indonesia: Sharing Heaven" on the Vice Indonesia YouTube channel. This research involved non-participatory observation and in-depth interviews. There were six research informants and one triangulation informant. The information received resulted in saturated data. The results showed that the informants negotiated the film's content cognitively and affectively. Although they recognize the legal legitimacy of polygamy, they conatively refuse to engage in polygamous marriages. Apart from that, there are concerns among women administrators of the North Sumatra MUI that this broadcast could create negative stereotypes and position polygamy as an ambiguous law in Islam so that its practice is no longer relevant to carry out

The Theme Progression Patterns in Popular Science Book Writing: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach

Despite the proliferation of digital mediums such as documentary series, video essays, and science podcasts, popular science books are still the primary medium for promoting science to the public as an epistemic way to understanding and being aware of our natural world. That said, in the domain of systemic functional linguistics, there exists a dearth of studies investigating popular science books. Hence, this study aims to investigate the organization of popular science discourse from the perspective of Theme Progression. A 93,078-word corpus was collected and divided into two main science categories: hard and soft—three disciplines under each main category and six texts under each discipline. The analysis of the corpus followed a mixed-method design where a Theme-counting excel sheet, created by the researcher, was used to calculate the most occurring Theme patterns. The results of the analysis indicate that the hard science disciplines give a logical presentation of the scientific text that intends to unpack and explain the intricacy behind the scientific notion whereas the soft science disciplines focus on expository narrative to connect and relate the scientific text to the target reader. Given these writing behaviors between the two science categories, it is recommended that future SFL studies explore the potentially arising differences within the broader aspect of the popular science genre, for instance, to juxtapose books from articles in the way discoursal features (e.g., coherence and cohesion) are structured in the text.

Investigation of the Effect of Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique (Floatation-REST) in Floatation Tank on Physical, Physiological, and Psychological Recovery Parameters of Football Players

Background: Heavy training and football matches can negatively impact athletes' performance. This study aims to investigate the effects of Floatation-REST on the physical, physiological, and psychological recovery parameters of football players following plyometric training. Methods: The study involved 24 football players aged 20-26 from the amateur league in Bitlis, Turkey. Participants were divided into two groups: a control group (n=12) and a Floatation-REST group (n=12). After undergoing plyometric training, the control group watched a documentary video, while the Floatation-REST group received Floatation-REST therapy. Recovery effects were assessed through heart rate measurement, lactate, cortisol, myoglobin, creatine kinase, leukocytes, IL-6, TNF-alpha serum analyses, performance tests, and a psychological perception questionnaire. Results: Floatation-REST showed statistically significant positive effects on heart rate, lactate, creatine kinase, myoglobin, cortisol, and IL-6 levels. It also significantly reduced pain in the rectus femoris, tibialis anterior, gastrocnemius, and achilles tendon, and improved speed (30 m), agility, and thrust force performances. Athletes in the Floatation-REST group reported decreased pain and enhanced performance according to the psychological perception questionnaire. Conclusion: The study demonstrates that Floatation-REST can be effectively used by football clubs as a new recovery method, offering benefits in physical and psychological recovery following intense training.

Editor in a Television Documentary Program Titled Compromising with the Pandemic with Tarra Budiman

This qualitative research with a descriptive approach aims to produce a television documentary program entitled "Compromising with the Pandemic with Tarra Budiman". Data collection techniques: literacy, observation, and interviews with research objects. The results of the discussion stated: (1) The author as the editor presents facts about Tarra Budiman's struggle to survive economically during the pandemic; (2) Audience segmentation in this program is 13-50 years old with socio-economic status A,B,C; (3) A documentary program that lasts 13 minutes and 8 seconds with the characteristics of live record production (tapping); (4) Editor at the pre-production stage: in charge of following the process of making story ideas; (5) The editor in the production stage coordinates the cameraperson to take pictures according to the scenario that has been created, and assists the cameraperson in shooting (6) The editor in the post-production stage is responsible for constructing the course of the story according to the scenario that has been created by the producer. The conclusion of an editor is that he must be able to convey the message of a human interest documentary video with a deep message, hoping that the audience will be immersed in the story of the source.

Pengenalan Potensi UMKM Gula Merah dengan Kemasan Gula Semut dan Gula Batu di Desa Barambang, Kec. Sinjai Borong, Kab. Sinjai Melalui Video Dokumenter

The implementation of KKN is contained in the third point of the Tri Dharma of higher education. This is intended so that students can gain knowledge that is not available on campus. Apart from that, students also carry out community empowerment and service in their work areas from the knowledge they have gained on campus. The aim of this "MSME Palm Sugar Documentary Video" is to help palm sugar craftsmen promote their products using documentary videos which are made and then posted on social media so they can be seen by the public. Apart from that, this palm sugar product can also be known to many people through documentary videos that have been made, so that not only the local village community knows about this palm sugar product but also the entire Indonesian people. The work program "Video Documentary of Palm Sugar UMKM" is very influential in improving the creative economy of palm sugar UMKM to expand the marketing of their products. To be recognized by the general public.

In someone else’s shoes: Reducing prejudice through perspective taking

This study investigates the effectiveness of online, low-cost, scalable interventions aimed at reducing prejudice against an out-group through the use of perspective taking. We conducted an online experiment in which Colombian natives were randomly assigned to either watch a video documentary about Venezuelan forced migrants crossing the Colombian border on foot or to play an online game that immersed them in the life of a Venezuelan forced migrant. Compared to a control group, both treatments led to increased altruism toward Venezuelans and improved attitudes toward forced migrants. However, only the game significantly boosted self-reported trust. In terms of effectiveness per minute of treatment, the video was at least four times more efficient than the game in enhancing prosociality. Given the video’s comparably shorter duration, greater ease of dissemination, and lower demand for active involvement, it appears a superior option to enhance prosocial behaviors in the short term.

Visualization of the Values of the AL Anwar Islamic Boarding School to Improve the Personal Qualities of Santri

The Industrial Revolution has changed the values of Islamic Boarding Schools which have begun to fade among students as the nation's next generation. Santri are more busy with their social media than living socially with the community in teaching and exemplifying the characteristic educational values they receive at Islamic boarding schools. In fact, the values of Islamic boarding school education have not been a reflection of improving the quality of students in society. The theory used in this research to instill Islamic boarding school values in students is visualization through documentary videos as a learning medium, so that students can easily access and remember them in everyday life. The results of this research show that there is a change in the behavior of santri in an effort to improve personal quality, namely that the santri are more motivated to learn and are happy to do good as a reflection of the santri as role models for their community. The improvement in personal quality in question is related to increasing the moral quality and knowledge of students. The true philosophy of santri is the continuation of the struggle of teachers and ulama' to guide society in religious knowledge and face increasingly competitive life

INOVASI DALAM PEMBELAJARAN SEJARAH KEBUDAYAAN ISLAM: ANALISIS PENGGUNAAN AUDIO VISUAL SEBAGAI MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN

Learning media is a very important factor in supporting the success of the teaching and learning process. Global limitations emphasize the need for the world of education to continue to adapt to technological advances to improve the quality of education, especially in the use of information and communication technology in learning, especially in the subject of Islamic Cultural History there are still problems of student misunderstanding caused by inappropriate learning methods and media. This article is written to explain the role of audio-visual media in improving the learning process and outcomes of Islamic Cultural History. The research method used is library research. The data used is in the form of articles that discuss the use of audio-visual media in learning Islamic Cultural History, the article is systematically reviewed as the main data in research. This research takes sources from articles published in the last 4 years (2020-2024). The data used in this study was collected from various sources, namely: Google Scholar, Sinta, and Publish or Perish The data collection technique used in this study is to search and construct from various sources, such as journals, books, and from several relevant previous studies. The results showed that learning cultural history using audio-visual media is very effective because it can help students to feel the atmosphere of Islamic culture directly through virtual worlds such as documentary videos, historical simulations, and virtual-based applications. This provides a new experience in the learning process