More than three yes’s
I have delivered the proposal to the project board (of 7 people no less). My presentation went well, I showed a Keynote detailing a summary of the residency process, keeping the blog and the proposed structure of the artwork. I had also edited together a short clip of just over a minute of how the images of historical documents and contemporary visuals (video and photographs) would work together.
The idea was well received and I have been given the go-ahead to make the artwork now. There was a section of the small trial edit that seemed to go down well and I have a good idea about the balance I want to strike with this work.
Now I have 4 weeks in which to build the edit. It’s likely this will go by quickly but I have the structure mapped out and quite a bit of the video footage and still images. There are some things still to get but it’s all possible. I will be at NRO taking some further images with their lighting stand tomorrow and have a date for inviting the group in to make audio recordings. I would like them to elucidate the process and visuals rather than explaining each image on the screen.
I wonder how historians and archivists (not involved in the project) view this kind of commission – the documents obviously play an essential part but equally important will be the contemporary imagery and the audio recordings. I see the contemporary footage becoming a further document of the place and time of this commission in addition to being a response to the more historical items we have been exploring.
In terms of digital preservation its all looking straightforward (famous last words) with a full quality version in addition to the one that will be loaded onto a YouTube page.
Now to order that new external hardrive to hold all the files during the editing process……
