[Noisebridge-discuss] database film-making

[Leif Ryge]

On 08/31/2010 11:52 AM, Michael Shiloh wrote:
 > Here's a fascinating concept: a database of raw footage is provided,
 > and you can make a film by selecting footage from this database:

An interesting project with hundreds of hours of footage available 
online is [NB-regular] Christian Einfeldt's Digital Tipping Point:

http://digitaltippingpoint.com/
http://www.archive.org/details/digitaltippingpoint

> The DTP crew describes their project as a Point-of-View (POV) documentary film about the rapidly growing global shift to open source software, and the effects that massive wave of technological change will have on literacy, art, and culture around the world.
>
> The DTP crew says their project will be the first feature length documentary about free open source software to be built in an open source fashion out of video submitted to the Internet Archive.
>
> The DTP crew has shot over 350 hours of footage of leading politicians, CEOs, and software developers from all over the world, and is now releasing this footage to the Internet Archive community under a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license.
>
> The DTP crew invites you to take their video and rip, mix and burn it however you like, for whatever purpose you like. You can even use the footage for your own commercial film, as long as you release your final product under a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license.
>
> Of course, The DTP crew asks you to consider joining their film effort, and contribute your edits, transcriptions, translations, animations, and music to the main DTP film effort, but please feel free to make your own video as well

--

The band "The Get Out Clause" performed in front of CCTV cameras in 80 
locations to make this music video 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2iuZMEEs_A but they were only able to 
obtain the video from 20 of them. 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1938076/The-Get-Out-Clause-Manchesters-stars-of-CCTV-cameras.html

FOIA'ing and publishing surveillance data should really be done more 
often! Has anyone here had any experience with asking for access to the 
numerous cameras operated by state and city governments in the bay area?

~leif


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Symphony of Deptford - cinelerra
> server	workshop - database film-making
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:57:04 +0100
> From: adnan hadzi<a.hadzi at gold.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: a.hadzi at gold.ac.uk, A discussion list for dorkbot-london
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> Dear all,
>
> workshop coming up on database film-making:
> The 'Symphony of Deptford' workshop will introduce participants to
> database film-making where material and images from the Deptford.TV
> archive will be edited to create a 'Symphony of Deptford'.
>
> Date: 29th October - 31st October, 12pm-5pm
>
> RSVP only: Interested person should please RSVP with phone number&
> state your specific interest: a.hadzi(a)gold.ac.uk (limited space!).
>
> all the best,
> Adnan
>
>
> Symphony of Deptford.
>
> WORKSHOP
>
> Footage taken from Deptford.TV was filmed during a previous TV hacking
> workshop where participants equipped with CCTV surveillance signal
> receivers were lead through the city by incoming surveillance camera
> signals. CCTV video signal receivers cached surveillance camera signals
> into public and private spaces and were made visible: surveillance
> became sousveillance.
>
> By making images visible which normally remain hidden, we gain access to
> the “surveillance from above” enabling us to use these images to create
> personal narratives of the city. The Images of Ebb workshop will look at
> constructing a narrative to the Sounds of Ebb.
>
> Sound of Ebb (a branch project of The End of Something) is an open
> source sound series that asks sound artists and artists working with
> sound to respond to the question: What is the sound of Recession?
> Contributions are collected internationally reflecting the affects of
> crisis and recession from various social contexts and geographic
> locations. Together the Sounds of Ebb and images from Sousveillance
> produce articulations of a local city in crisis with global resonances
> of recession.
>
> Deptford.TV is a research project on collaborative film - initiated by
> Adnan Hadzi in collaboration with the Deckspace media lab, Bitnik media
> collective, OWN project, Liquid Culture initiative, and Goldsmiths College.
>
> It is an online media database documenting the urban change of Deptford,
> in Sout East London. Deptford TV functions as an open, collaborative
> platform that allows artists, filmmakers and people living and working
> around Deptford to store, share, re-edit and redistribute the
> documentation of Deptford. http://deptford.tv
>
> Interested person should please RSVP with phone number&  state your
> specific interest: a.hadzi(a)gold.ac.uk (limited space!)
>
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