http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro Open Media Blog Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:23:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By next week Ken and Karen will be expecting to see a working blog with Maps showing video clips that have been produced by the whole group. It is really important that that this is complete by next week as it will be the basis, along with your individual research blogs ... http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro/2009/12/10/next-week/ This to be completed over holiday as a 1 minute piece to be uploaded to your blog by the beginning of the new term in January 2010. Some links to useful examples of experimental work: An hours lecture by Janye and Louise Wilson that shows examples of their work which is very ... http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro/2009/12/10/experimental-movie/ What you need to have ready for next week: All footage digitised and uploaded to YouTube...............remember the title MASS OBSERVATION lots of material has been captured and we need to upload it so that we have multiple slices of life and people from the village and city. The mass observation project the ... http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro/2009/12/03/mass-observation-10th-december/ http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro/2009/11/26/my-maps-google-maps-video-how-to/ An interesting set of documentaries on the rise of citizen as "mass" and the attempts to understand, ameliorate, influence and control the "mass" developed into a set of ideas and approaches that were initially provoked by Freud's ideas about the nature of desire and the role of the unconcious. Adam Curtis ... http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro/2009/11/26/the-idea-of-citizens-as-a-mass-to-be-observed/ Origins of Mass Observation, 1937-50s It is perhaps useful to think about the material that we recorded in the village and that other students are recording material about where they live or work as a collective piece that forms a mini mass observation. The Mass Observation archives are held by Sussex ... http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro/2009/11/26/mass-observation-movement/ I thought I would just share with you some new tools that I have been asked to find out about in relation to a local archive project that is looking at a particular street in Coventry and it history, communities and usage past and present. The outline with links to useful ... http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro/2009/11/24/digital-mapping-tools-thursday-26th-nov/ It is important that we quickly digitise the footage that has been collected by us over the last week. We need to be able to share footage with the group as a whole so that we can see how this might work as a themed piece of work. This may ... http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro/2009/11/24/digitising-footage-from-helmdon-and-other-projects/ Really important I have just had confirmation that you can pick up the cameras from the media loan shop tonight from 7.30pm onwards. It is really important that you make sure you do this ready for tomorrow. You will all need warm clothes, some food, and Mini DV Tapes for the ... http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro/2009/11/18/picking-up-cameras-tonight-media-loan-shop-7-30pm/ Another possible problem. The Media Loan shop doesn't open until 9am and the first group is away at 8am. Group one needs to get there cameras from the loan shop at the end of Wednesday. I am going to speak with Kevin in the media loan shop to try and clear ... http://mcopenmediacoventry.org/mamediapro/2009/11/17/media-loan-shop/