{"id":508,"date":"2025-07-27T22:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/?p=508"},"modified":"2025-08-03T15:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:10:38","slug":"videos-about-boc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/boc-project\/2025\/07\/27\/videos-about-boc\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos About BOC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WNDU recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of the station’s launch, and Beyond Our Control <\/em>was honored with a featured segment<\/a> amongst the station’s retrospectives. I was delighted to share a few words about the show with reporter Tricia Sloma alongside a pair of BOC alumni, Lee Lodyga and Donnie Rogers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a 4-minute piece put together in less than 48 hours under a tight deadline, it’s tantalizing but only scratches the surface of the show — somewhat equivalent to the initial short essay I wrote that made me realize there was a whole book (and more) in this material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in addition to the book, I’m actually working on a video essay that acts as an introduction to the show. I started it as a participant at Middlebury College’s two-week workshop on videographic criticism<\/a> back in June, and unlike Tricia Sloma, I’m not under a broadcast deadline, so I can spend a lot more time working on it til I feel content that I’ve gotten it right. I’m going to create a website to accompany the book, and I’d like to have the video essay launch on the home page, hopefully enticing newcomers to dig deeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I need more time to whip the video essay into proper shape, I can share a related video I created at the Middlebury workshop right now. We were tasked with creating a two-minute trailer for our final project, so here is mine, hopefully enticement enough to sit tight and wait for the finished video essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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