About this project

City Vanguard is a documentary series for the arts and culture communities of Chicago. The purpose of the series is to provide a portal to segments of the arts world that do not get the exposure they deserve. By providing consistent documentary style programs and original programs, City Vanguard brings a deeper understanding of Chicago artists as well as the fascinating cultures that may not have a voice. The target audiences for City Vanguard are those that understand, appreciate, support and participate in the Chicago arts community as a whole. Our audience is predominately African-Americans and people of color, between the age of 19-45, as well as fans and supporters of urban art forms.

We want to do more than document the cultures of the community; we want to cooperate with the community. To accomplish this, we have developed a video production apprentice program called Community Studio. Community Studio is an apprentice program for video production beginners which will give the participants a chance to be a part of a local video production as crew or cast members. Participants will experience the three main phases of video production: pre production, production and post production. Through hands on participation and professional instruction, people from the community will have the opportunity to complete a video project that will be screened to the public.

We will be using the money to purchase two professional Digital camcorders needed for production. Two camcorders are needed to allow us the ability to cover live performances and interviews where multiply angles are crucial.