Documentation

It's report-writing time, to bring the project to a close, and to submit to ACE.

A lot of documentation has been generated along the way - this blog, the website, the walks and films themselves, photos, video, interviews, on and offline surveys, email comments, programmes, etc. etc.

I'd like to collate things through the blog. However, as I found at the start, that's quite tricky given the range of formats and file sizes involved.
Maybe something to bare in mind from the start on a future project.

- If anyone has suggestions for apps that would work seamlessly that would be great!

Meanwhile, I'm aware that a lot of things get filed away at the end of a project, possibly never to see the light of day.. so I'm going to do what I can in adding documents, photos etc - to have an easily accessed reminder of what's been involved, and also to make this as comprehensive a record as possible. I'm going to cheat the timeline though, and add them in at dates that seem most appropriate... labeled 'documentation' for easy reference.

For a few of weeks (since the Worle workshops) I've been thinking about new blogs to take on elements of e-merge. They're not all live yet, and more may develop along the way, so I'll just add a short post introducing each one - a kind of family tree of new friends and relationships!

Visitors...to the Worle mediascapes

Here's some beautiful creative feedback from the primary school children who visited to try out the Worle students' mediascapes....

Remapped, and remade...

Remapped again, this time to an area of Worle Community School at Weston-super-Mare. 6th & 7th July 2009.

This 2 day intensive workshop for student, staff, and visiting primaries, is the final part of the e-merge project.

e-merge remapped, as experience of the central London iconic sights here in Weston. Stimulus for discussion, and design of new content and a new format - 2 new mediascapes made with content created during the workshop by students from years 7, 8 and 9.

The second day visitors from 2 local primary schools joined us to experience 'Welcome to Worle' - a more conventional mscape with photos and sounds placed around the area. And 'e-merge Student Videos' - a filmmaking walk with the London videos replaced by 38 short videos of life at Worle.

Observations..

I asked Worle workshop participants what they'd particularly noticed about the London films, and what they had noticed or would want to highlight about Worle/school in the mediascape content they were about to make.

London:

Birds

I like the squirrel running through the trees

Trafulgar Square

London Eye

I liked the movement of people and cars amongst large monuments

Sped up sunrise, walking. Time manipulation.

I liked the horses and animals

Liked the moving people part

Birds

Dappled sunlight

Worle:

Buildings - different viewpoints

Grass

Different height levels

Friends and some lesson

I noticed how different the school feels with no children

Environment

Animals

D.T.

Trees

Worle was very flat

Show the school animals

Environment

Nothing except PE

Environment

Animals

Sports Facilities

Web Listings

Websites/url's featuring e-merge:

http://www.e-merge-walks.com
Temporary page with links, logos & outline info, live from 23/2/09. Full
site live and functional to include walks & films made etc from 5/3/09

http://www.e-merge-walks.blogspot.com Project development blog started 12/1/09 and updated regularly. Public access including comments.

http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/news/2009/02/21/jackie-calderwood-tells-us-more-about-innovation-project-e-merge/#more-704 Article featuring background to e-merge,
21/2/09. Incl. public comments

http://www.ica.org.uk/emerge_a%20filmmaking%20mediascape+19135.twl Festival listing

http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/563/innovation/emerge_-a-filmmaking-mediascape.html Festival listing

http://birds-eye-view.co.uk/585/training/pervasive-media-studios-presents.html Festival listing

http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/266/innovation/innovation.html Festival listing

http://www.mscapers.com/msin/ABA0000559 Development sketch, uploaded 19/2/09

http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/news/2009/02/21/birds-eye-view-film-festival-gets-a-touch-pervasiveness Article

http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/4528630 Event listing (multi-lingual site) visited
26/2/09

http://tntonline.co.uk/whats_on/specialevents/5754941402WhatsOnEvent.aspx Listing

http://shootingpeople.org/calendar/index.php?mode=detail&event=9552&day=2009-03-12&event_type=single Listing

http://twitter.com/BirdsEyeViewFF/status/1237611785 Announcement

http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/whatson/single/515809/1
Listing article with images

http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/525417 Review with images

http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/project/e-merge with links to journal entries etc.

http://sandpit.hideandseekfest.co.uk/sandpit-10/
e-merge at Sandpit#10 22^nd April 2009, at ICA

http://www.jackiecalderwood.com/home.php
e-merge listed and linked from website.

http://www.creativewiltshire.co.uk/index.php/2009061868/News/dotbiz-Last-In-First-Out.php e-merge remapped for students and industry
partners as part of workshops and presentations by Jackie on Pervasive Media at
dot.biz, Wiltshire College, June 2009.

http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=20750 Jackie discussed e-merge as part of a
presentation ‘Pervasive Media: Experience of Landscape and Short Film’

http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/events/fri-17042009-100pm
Talk by Jackie at Pervasive Media Studio, April 2009, about work to date and
the e-merge project.

https://www.enyan.co.uk/article/show/7054
Case Study of Jackie for CPD section of ENYAN website (and e-newsletter March
2009) featuring e-merge project.

http://stratacollective.blogspot.com/2009/03/absence-and-presence.html feature & listing about e-merge