In the book on playwriting and video production titled,
Ethno*Playography How to Write Salable Ethnographic Plays,Monologues, & Skits from Life Stories, Social Issues, and Current Events—For all Ages with Samples for Performance, by Anne Hart, 2007, ASJA Press imprint, iUniverse, Inc. (ISBN: 978-0-595-46066-3), you'll learn how to how to research, interview, write, and market ethnographic plays, monologues, or skits, docu-dramas, or documentaries from life
story experiences, highlights, social issues, current events, rites-of-passage, coming-of-age, and life’s turning points. Browse the book at: the publisher's site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-46066-6 or at the author's blog at: http://ethnoplayography.blogspot.com/.
Or start your own play-based or dramatized life story, news, and social issues or current events-based documentary and/or ancestry-television business online. Ethno-playography is a word coined by playwright and novelist, Anne Hart in 2007. The term describes the geography and joy of play, song, dance, music, art, writing, oral traditions, poetry, and
drama around the world encompassing
ethnic customs, folklore, games, life story experiences, reminiscence, and traditions.
Learn how to launch ethnographic or multi-cultural family history/genealogy television shows globally on your Web site, produce videos, and publish hobby materials or life stories as a pay-per-view or sponsored free entertainment. Genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the country, with more than 113 million participants and researchers. Create social, oral, or personal history documentaries highlighting life stories.
Or customize vintage maps and family atlases and use copies of them as props in your play or skit. Then put your drama in a time-capsule to show to future generations.
Develop an educational business supplying explorers and investigators in family history, ancestry, or DNA-driven genealogy as social history. Most people want to know more about their roots, origins, home life, work day, social status, relationships, migrations, marriages, health, attitudes, customs, folklore, clothing, foods, environment, and the social issues in the news during the time in which their ancestors lived.
You’ll learn how to adapt real life stories into romance novels, skits, plays, monologues, or biographies. You’ll see the techniques of starting and operating a genealogy journalism and personal history business. Here’s how to interview individuals or groups and record life experiences as an oral historian.
Avoid the pitfalls. Learn how to start a genealogy television network (station) on your Web site. Here’s how to finance, write scripts, interview, and produce a documentary. The book shows techniques and tools for you to write, publish, and market family or personal history publications such as books or newsletters on a shoestring budget.
Start and operate a business supplying tools, research, training, and entertainment for those interested in playwriting and/or video production related to genealogy, family history/ancestry, vintage maps, and current issues in the news—for the hobbyist, researcher, or entrepreneur. For further resources, see the author's Web site at http://annehart.tripod.com or the publisher's site at http://iuniverse.com.
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