Do you want to research or make documentary films? Are you interested in collaborative film-making? Do you want to document regeneration, gentrification and alternative urbanism in deptford and new cross? Do you want to learn how to edit and publish digital video?
This is a call for participation in a Deptford.TV/CUCR collaboration to document the closure by Goldsmiths College of the buildings at SE14 6AF (the block that includes Cafe Crema) and the restoration of the Minesweeper boat on Deptford Creek.
CUCR is the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/ [http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/]
Deptford.TV is a collaborative video project documenting the regeneration of Deptford http://deptford.tv [http://deptford.tv]
This call is to participate in a series of workshops from January to March 2008 and participation in the making of short documentary films about two Deptford stories: the eviction of the squatters and businesses on New Cross Road, and the restoration of the Minesweeper, a floating community creative space recently damaged in a fire http://www.minesweeper.tv [http://www.minesweeper.tv]
The workshops are aimed at CUCR’s MA and PhD students (MA Culture, Globalisation and the City, MA Photography and Urban Cultures, PhD Visual Sociology), but are open to anyone. They are free and require no previous experience. We are looking for people who have an interest in documenting stories of city change, whether they have skills in film-making or a passion for research.
You will be given basic training in collaborative digital film-making, editing with Final Cut, and publishing video, and work together to make short films. The project is based on open source and creative commons principles. The workshops will be held at Goldsmiths College.
The schedule:
Research pre-meet:
– 15th January 3 pm to 5 pm: starting off the documentary research process (optional) Workshops:
– 1st day: 28th January 10am to 4pm introduction to deptford.tv principles, introduction to themes to film, how to publish on deptford.tv, research into topics, forming of groups. – 2nd day: 4th Februaryry 10am to
4pm: introduction to shooting equipment.
– 2 wks time independent filming
– 3rd day: 18th Februaryry 10am to 4pm introduction to final cut – start of editing / parallel to shooting – 4th day: 3rd march 10am to 4pm: discussion of edits, how to upload to deptford.tv