Journal of Undergraduate Research

David Paul Graham and Professor Tom Lefler, Theater and Film Traditionally, narrative films begin with a story to be told and every decision made in the film making process should take into account what would best in order to tell that story. I proposed to create a narrative film a very different way. I thought […]

Todd Wahlquist, Theater & Film The making of a film can be very taxing, both mentally and financially, and I appreciate very much the Office of Research and Creative Work helping to lessen both of those demands. The total budget for my film was approximately $5,000; therefore, the $1,000 provided by the Research and Creative […]

Brady Tuckett, Theater & Film In early 1992, it was announced that Salt Lake City’s minor league ballpark, Derks Field, was going to be tom down. Soon after reading these headlines, I became interested in making a documentary about the history of baseball in Salt Lake City. As a child, I attended many baseball games […]

Merrill A. Page and Professor Stan Ferguson, Theater and Media Arts Editing in film is the act of joining two separate visual clips together to continue a film’s progress. Editing styles and the frequency of cuts can vary greatly from film to film, and in my project, I proposed to study in depth the actual […]

Vance L. Mellen, Theater and Film I am glad to report on my use of the Research and Creative Works Scholarship. I’ve had a fantastic last year at BYU, and thanks to the grant I received, I feel extremely well prepared to enter graduate schooL Due in part to the work funded by this grant, […]

Bryce Johnson, Theater and Film Thank you very much for the grant received from the Office of Research and Creative Work. I am writing to report on how that grant was used to finance my project, Center Stage, a thirty-minute documentary film on Ruth and Nathan Hale, founders of the oldest continuously-running center stage theater […]

T. Ryan Little and Professor Sharon Swenson, Theater and Media Arts The objective of this project was to write a screenplay for a film that would share gospel insights without being didactic in its presentation. Did I succeed? I believe I’m on the right track. I felt that a good place to start would be […]

Daniel P. Stowell and Professor George Nelson, Theatre and Media Arts Gordon B. Hinckley, current president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, recently stated, “The schooling of our spirits is as important as the schooling of our minds, if not more important”(67). Hinckley here underlines the importance and reason for this study. […]

Dustin Condren and Professor Stan Ferguson, Theatre and Media Arts After filming my third-year narrative film project, I felt ready for a significant change. Everything that I had done up until that point had consisted of stories of college-age men struggling to come to terms with their own weaknesses and desires. Essentially they were all […]

Brad Barber and Professor Thomas Lefler, Theatre and Media Arts In making this documentary film, my original intent was to document Travis Eberhard’s personality, humor, and goals as a recently BYU-graduated film student. Specifically, I wanted to achieve this by not asking him any questions about what it was like to live with a wheelchair. This […]