Mission Statement

Problem Statement:
Our goal is to create an interactive DVD consisting of two parts. The first part will be covering important times of the African American Civil Rights Movement in the city of Louisville through the Civil War. The second part will be mapping out nineteen specific locations important to the African American Civil Rights Movement, and the people associated with those locations, in the city of Louisville. The map will allow access to full play through of all locations, or specific locations upon demand.

Research Question:
Which Locations are more important and thus would require a more favorable portion of information?  Will video and/or photographs be available of these locations from the past? Can this be made in such a way to be used as an educational tool for educating students, or the general public, on these important times and places? Will we be able to procure interviews with important figures, or experts, on the subject?

Emerging Technologies:
This project can be done in Premiere (or a Premiere-equivalent) and exported to a DVD format which can then be used for its educational purpose. Some parts of this project have the potential to be done in Flash, but further research must be done before certainties can be made. Eventually this project, specifically the map portion, has the potential of being a website, or as downloadable videos from a website, which can be viewed on cellular phones while actively partaking in the driving tour, or from the comfort of your own home.

Press Releases

AEA Designs Contracts with Ann Braden Institute

Louisville, Kentucky March 17, 2010 – AEA Designs has reached an agreement with The Ann Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at the University of Louisville to produce a documentary on the civil right struggle in Louisville. The short film is to center around a driving tour produced by the Braden Institute, which features 21 sites, mostly in the downtown and west end neighborhoods of the city. In addition, the documentary will briefly cover Louisville’s pre-civil rights history to provide contextual framework for the rest of the movie.

Initial filming on the project has begun, and AEA Designs will soon begin casting for the narrator. It is hoped that this film will be used to educate and interest the public in the civil rights movement and black history in Louisville, and about Louisville history in general.