Editing Point of Beginning Animated Graphic Documentary (section)

=Artwork=

After co-creating a preliminary storyboard in this way, I would take the descriptions, notes and rough sketches to Danny Aaluk; a Gjoa Haven based graphic artist who had been pointed out by the HTO board to work on this film with. 

Danny makes detailed black and white ink-drawings that he sells to tourists that arrive by cruise ship in the summer, teachers and researchers that come into town. He also makes artwork for local events, the school and the hamlet office, and is occasionally invited to art-fairs in the South. 

[[File:Danny Aaluk.jpg|thumb|Danny Aaluk drawing (photograph by de Wildt, 2021)]]
[[File:Drawing.jpg|thumb|Drawing for voices of Thunder (photograph by de Wildt, 2021)]]

Danny and I would end up spending a lot of time together. We would talk the scene through, and he would ask detailed questions on the content of each scene. 

More quick sketches from both me and Danny could often clarify the compositions of each setting and what kind of details were discussed with the HTO board members. Sometimes Danny would ask questions that I could not answer, spurring follow-up conversations with James and William. 

These conversations sometimes brought up new details for certain scenes. For example, it became clear that the traditional hunting scene should also have dogs in it, because dogs were very important companion animals in the hunting of polar bears. They would go ahead and sometimes even kill the bear before the hunter could catch up. Whenever Danny had finished a drawing I would bring them to James and William, to see if anything was missing or should be changed. 

The drawings often invoked affective responses during which the initial stories and experiences that had led to the drawing were repeated, or more related stories shared. 

[[File:Danny drawing.jpg|thumb|Danny Aaluk drawing in his house (photograph by de Wildt, 2021)]]

 <div class="next_choice">The process of collaborating with Danny also allowed for an opportunity to get to know each other. 

We would usually spend considerable amounts of time chatting or drinking tea before and after the more transactional activities of payment, and dropping off drawings or sketches. As was often the case with others as well, such moments were combined with small favours like rides to the store or elsewhere in town, technical assistance with phone plans or small monetary advances for upcoming work. 

Very often these moments would also include Danny sharing stories about his grandfather who would take him out on the land and teach him about the animals and the ice. Although these are informal moments, outside of the research agenda and data collection, I argue they cannot be seen as separate from the research. These informal moments of sharing knowledge and mutual care, account for the relations that become a crucial part of community-based research.

'''"Detour"''' to trace more of such community co-creation.
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<span class="detour to-cut-2 link" data-page-title="Community co-creation" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Community co-creation|Detour to Cut 2: Community co-creation]]</span>