Journal of Undergraduate Research

Christian Vuissa and Professor Stanley Ferguson, Theatre and Media Arts For my last film project at BYU, I wanted to do something special that would help me get started in the film industry. Unfolding is a film that explores the struggle of a young woman. She learns to reconnect with her father who suffers from […]

Stacey Snider and Professor Thomas Russell, Media Arts “[They said] we were called by the Furer and by God to help defend our home.” So they were told, but of the 90,000 Slovene men, young and old, forced from their provincial homes and into German uniforms at the beginning of WWII, few were convinced. Swayed […]

Emily Lewis and Professor Dr. Dean Duncan, Media Arts Studies Emily Lewis Documentary on Homeless and 2002 Winter Olympics Faculty Mentor: Dean Duncan, Media Arts Studies The original project that I intended to complete for this scholarship was a documentary film on juvenile delinquents and the Utah court system. This project became impossible to do […]

Janae R Judd and Professor Mary Farahnakian, Theatre and Media Arts What we wear reveals a great deal about us, not only as individuals, but also as a society. Likewise, historic clothing allows us to see into the past. For example, in the 1940s cloth was used for war efforts. To help conserve fabrics, women […]

Amy Elizabeth Jensen and Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones, Theatre and Media Arts The English courtly masque was an elaborate theatrical form of poetry, dance, music, and scenery that flourished under the reign of the Stuarts, James (1603–1625) and Charles I (1625– 1649). The masque’s spectacle, both highly theatrical and financially extravagant, reflected the magnificence of […]

Randy Astle and Dr. Darl Larsen, Theatre and Media Arts Chinese folklore has been a rich mine for artistic production for hundreds of years, and continues to be so today. For example, Chinese ghost stories, such as in the medieval compilation of dozens of ghost stories in the work Strange Tales of Liao Zhai, have […]

Isaac Walter and Dr. Rodger Sorensen, Theatre & Film Both Peter Brook1 and Jerzy Grotowski,2 two of the most important theatre directors and theoreticians of this century, have stated that the basis for all theatre is the actor/audience relationship. It is what makes theatre a unique art form. Without this relationship you may have another […]

Aileen Idalia Villalba and Dr. Jennie Creer-King, BYU Theater Ballet Co-artistic director and dance faculty In October 2002, the leader of the Latin Section from BYU Living Legends asked me to choreograph a new Paraguayan dance for their upcoming season. After accepting the request I met personally with Living Legends’ former director Janelle Christensen to […]

Jonathan Walker and Professor Stan Ferguson, Theater & Film The ORCA grant allowed me to make a short narrative film about the struggles of a pioneer mother to maintain her temporal and spiritual survival. It is set in Southern Utah shortly after Brigham Young sent the first settlers to that region. Because of the harsh […]

Bradley E. Wilson and Professor Stanley P. Ferguson, Media Arts The concept of the research and creative film project revolves around the life changing conversion of John Taylor to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in April of 1836. The research and pre-development work on this project has opened many new vistas that would […]