{"id":410,"date":"2009-08-20T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/echo_tumblr\/?p=11"},"modified":"2013-03-02T18:26:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T18:26:46","slug":"technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coral.ncvp.net\/echo\/technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been having some technological problems with cutting.\u00a0 We needed to \u201cre-up\u201d our cut (a term I\u2019ve copied from THE WIRE where the drug dealers get progressively more ambitious).\u00a0 We needed to migrate from our small 500gbyte USB drives which we had outgrown to something quicker and bigger.\u00a0 We were recommended 2Terrabyte ganged drives by Trevor at AVID (this means effectively a fast running Networked 1 Terrabyte drive), but it\u2019s taken us 6 months to make this happen and meanwhile for a time we were left running the cut on 3 drives simultaneously, and with no backup.\u00a0 This was frightening<\/span>.\u00a0 Eventually, I took all the drives to Mwnci, the post-production company in Cardiff, and they have diagnosed that the new super fast disk was faulty.\u00a0 However, having bought a new 1 Tbyte firewire disk we should now be operating properly again.\u00a0 Mynci copies our material to their Unity drive and then back to our hard drive, and back up drives.<\/p>\n

This has brought me back to several thoughts about practice as research and project support.\u00a0 On the whole, the project hasn\u2019t been part of a studio system that has been supported, and that has been why it has taken so long.\u00a0 Each bit of it has taken a very long time, but particularly post production.\u00a0\u00a0If (PhD) projects are to be supported then they need this kind of support and both technical and human support needs to be working in some kind of studio system.\u00a0 Given that Derek the Dean also wants a studio system to be operating we need to decide what this is.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just finding money from outside and doing outside projects.\u00a0 It must be a kernel of something inside the filmschool.<\/p>\n

On the technical front, at\u00a0Mwnci Richard Moss suggested the school pays a retainer to a company, (he recommended one to me) to scope what the school needs on a regular basis in order to run smoothly (e.g. the correct cameras, sound equipment etc.).\u00a0\u00a0 Whilst at the moment, each department has very good technicians, there\u2019s a certain amount of empire building between departments and therefore things don\u2019t speak across departments.\u00a0 Then lecturers have their own wish lists, and people leave and so on.\u00a0 A company which handles this from year to year would be able to look across the provision and make it work.<\/p>\n

On the person\/academic front, there\u2019s more difficulty.\u00a0 The need to have a studio, and the need to have a set of courses with the bureaucracy and standards that this requires, QAA, room bookings etc., plus the reified way we do things at Newport means that there\u2019s almost no chance of things working across courses at the moment, even if Derek has tried to make 20 credit modules.\u00a0 Therefore I can only talk about some kind of utopian film school.\u00a0 By starting with that, we could work back to what we have and find a way to mix it in.<\/p>\n

We need a portfolio school.\u00a0 No separate years, but projects.\u00a0 First years work at a lower level than upper years etc, and tutors support in much more personal ways but also more craft ways.\u00a0\u00a0 Tutors, external industry, internal PaR, small undergraduate teaching projects, and student generated projects are the projects. Theory and context is worked around projects, but also the projects stop for a short time for context and theory breaks.\u00a0 Technical education is also worked in through streamed seminars (theory could also be streamed or stranded).\u00a0 The work of the tutors would therefore be much more towards developing the students portfolios and actually more in line with educational thinking, but also very difficult because the planning of the year portfolio would be hard.\u00a0\u00a0 However, this way there would be space for proper cross platform development and also individual work and single disciplinary work in a portfolio.\u00a0 Essentially, we would be developing the school as a new media conservatoire.\u00a0 However, theory cannot be hived off and taught as cheap chalk and talk, but must be part of this and taught as practice based exercises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been having some technological problems with cutting.\u00a0 We needed to \u201cre-up\u201d our cut (a term I\u2019ve copied from THE WIRE where the drug dealers get progressively more ambitious).\u00a0 We needed to migrate from our small 500gbyte USB drives which we had outgrown to something quicker and bigger.\u00a0 We were recommended 2Terrabyte ganged drives by … <\/p>\n

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