FIAT/FOCAL International Summer School
29th June - 4th July 2003

A week long course in the UK designed for library researchers and archive staff in general from different international backgrounds to complete their general knowledge and appreciation of the world of footage archibes, their systems and uses. Note that the language of the course will be in English.

Registration details

• Length of Course : 5 days, 9.30 - 5.00 pm, plus some evening events
• Time/Date : 30 June - 4 July 2003, arrival in the evening 29 June
• Location : 2 days at East Anglian Film Archive, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England ; 3 days in London with FOCAL International based at the Strand Palace Hotel
• Reporting instructions : University of East Anglia, Porters Lodge, Accommodation Centre (open until 10.00pm. Room key and meal tickets will be issued then).

The Programme

Sunday 29th June

• Registration, East Anglia University

Monday 30th June

• Background to Film and Video
  Lecturer : David Cleveland, Director of East Anglia Film Archive
  • Basic information about moving images
  • Formats (film, video, disc, chips)
  • Nature of film : origins, gauges, how it is used and by whom, nitrate, safety stock
  • Nature of video : origins, formats, how it is used and by whom, original video material, Programmes with archive material in
  • Film : how it was produced, film recognition, handling, viewing equipment, originals, copies, duping materials etc
  • History of film : dates and introduction of film elements, processes, colour, sound
  • Film systems : sepmag, commag, comopt, reversal, neg/pos, super 16, scope, bar code
  • History of TV : live, telerecordings, colour, channels
  • Conservation and repair of film and video tape
  • Film and video storage

Tuesday 1st July

• Using archive material
  Lecturers : David Cleveland, Director, of East Anglia Film Archive, Jane Alvey, Assistant Director, Phillip Butcher, Assistant Archivist.
  • Film Printing - the Stages to follow
  • Film to video - Telecine, ways of doing things, wet gate, colour correction, scratch and sparkle removal, ratios, time code, noise reduction, editing
  • Video transfer - Formats, digital, correction, logos time code, etc
  • How to deal with small gauge films and owners (8mm etc)
  • How to deal with amateur video formats and donors
  • Using a regional or small archive
  • Access catalogues, cards, database, copyright, internet (relating to EAFA)
  • The Future - Widescreen and Aspect Ratios
  • Archive Network in UK
  • Ethical questions - Speed of film action, colour, sound, using out of context, electronic alternation of picture, improving image, degrading image, etc.
  • All the above will include hands-on practical experience.

Wednesday 2nd July

• I want to use that extract : what do I need to do ?
  Conference in London

Thursday 3rd July

• Visits to
  • National Film & Television Archive
  • Movietonews Archive
  • Canal Plus (EMI) Photo and Film Archives
• FOCAL Social evening

Friday 4th July

• Visit to ITN News Archive
• Followed by a lecture : End to end research and use of archive footage
  Lecturers : Film researchers Jane Mercer, Belinda Harris, Tony Dalton, and legal expert Hubert Best
• Tour of BBC Information & Archives with demonstration of new Media Archive process.
  Host Andy O'Dwyer
• De-brief and farewells : Sue Malden & Anne Johnson of FOCAL & FIAT

Cost

• £ 900 per delegate
• Including accomodation and some meals

For more information call Focal on +44 (0)20 8423 5863
Programme details and registration form can be found on Focal website : www.focalint.org