curriculum for eyebeam's 2019 ddc
Ingrid Raphael @movingbodyofwork iraphael93@gmail.com
this multi-media workshop will explore the use(s) and storing of archives (music videos, photos, pop culture, writings, zines, etc... ) with a critique on (in)accessibility + autonomy to control our pasts’ narratives. Participants will take part in questioning and dissecting where archives live, how they’re being used, and who has autonomy + control over them. We will then each take part in creating our own personal archival piece via video editing and filmmaking-- ensuring and practicing ownership + autonomy of archival storytelling. Ending with a reflection in the roles we play as editors, creators, and recorders to engage in the preservation and storytelling of our past to make sense of our present and ultimately, map out a radically different future.
this exercise is for middle to high school age range. much of the workshop will be exploring the internet, mobile + web platform apps which includes knowing how to navigate the internet. you do not need to know how to identify media in code or read code and how to edit videos because the facilitator will teach those skills during the workshop.
After this workshop, students will: know where media archives live: both online and in public spaces understand how archives have been historically used and the way they're used now learn how to retrieve media off of the internet via code-reading learn how to accredit uses of media learn how to do linear video editing
10 mins introductions
35mins overview, presentation of archival uses/practices + participant discussion
5 mins break to move around
15 mins exercise instruction: how to retrieve media from internet reading code + storyboard
35-45 mins individual work on retrieving media
15 mins regroup + revision time
LUNCH BREAK
2 mins check-ins and review of materials and for questions
15-20 mins instruction linear video editing + audio recording
45 mins for exercise + editing video (instructor + TAs walk around and help out) *includes uploading videos to google drive
15-25 mins screening of video projects
20 mins discussion + reflection on video projects + archival uses
10-15 mins wrap up in written reflection following prompt 1
5 closing embrace + swapping information/resources
USBs, microphones, computer, note taking supplies, projector, iMovie/phone related video app/open-access video editing software, headphones
exercise: how to create a storyboard
pass out handouts with storyboard squares and lines and present a short presentation of how storyboards are used to predict a storyline, an idea, a concept, and introduce the arc storyline process in screenwriting. then, let the participants work together or alone to conceptualize their idea onto paper. using the history of uses, who has control and autonomy, of archives as a springboard for them
thinking about which archives they'll use and ones they're interested in.
exercise: how to retrieve media from internet code pass out handouts with a breakdown of the google chrome ability to read present the code from the webpage-- handout should host visuals for how to do so along with written instructions. then, have participants try it out while also demonstrating it live via a projector each step of the way. then, let participants gather their media pieces on the internet to compile that will fit their storyboard ideas.
exercise: how to edit video + audio in linear editing software depending on the type of video software being used, walk through the steps of editing a video and have students follow your steps as you go. introduce them to importing media, cutting and trimming their video, cropping the media to fit the frame, using filters and other capacities. the aim of this exercise is for participants/students to be mindful in how they're using archival media in their piece -- limit the video to a 2-3 min length and have participants go free with where they want to take it, which critique, observation, perspective they want to take and so forth. in this exercise, they should already have their storyboard and media set and a direction for the video so that this exercise is based on experimenting with editing functions and materializing their visions.
prompt 1: what comes to mind when i say archive? what comes to mind when i say memory? how do you experience those two definitions in your life? what are the possibilities to commemorate both memory and archive in our day and age? what is my role in this?
Archive: a collection of physical and digital memories and representations of human history and culture in the form of artifacts, photo, objects, oral, video living usually in institutions, personal collections, and digitally on the internet.
Accessibility: the quality and ability to use and acquire with ease and fair playing field
Ctrl+F/Command+F: the keypads to press simultaneously to open up the filter to find particular items on a webpage or document
JPG: jpeg is the format by which images are saved and read
MP4: mp4 is the universal format by which videos are saved and read Linear-editing: term used in video editing where you edit videos, sounds, images from a time point from beginning to ending in a horizontal (linear) way
USB: a device that stores documents, files, that you can plug into your computer and access those files. we will save our work and archival media on our usbs.
In our reflection, it will serve to write down participants' thoughts and ideas since the workshop is inspiration + critique + production heavy. to give a break, reflections will serve as a way to decompress all of the ideas and thoughts discussed and ways to document, as a form of archival work, the workshop and the thoughts throughout it.
wikimedia.org
images.google.com
images.bing.com
youtube.com
instagram.com
giphy.com
twitter.com
facebook.com
images.yahoo.com
pinterest.com
tumblr.com
Google Chrome features
archive.org
wikipedia.org