Community Visions

Activist Archiving: Working on Scribe's Community Visions Collection

DATE: Wed. November 3; TIME: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm; Come all day or in shifts from 11am-2pm or 2-5pm; FALL 2010

Instructor: Mona Jimenez
Fee: $0. FREE

In this workshop/work day, Scribe's friends and allies, working alongside archivists and students, will tackle the collection "Community Visions" – documentaries produced during the past 20 years by Philadelphia community-based organizations. The goal is to inspect and catalog the edit masters and production elements from the oldest productions forward, and in the process, to teach archiving skills through hands-on practice.

Before beginning digitization for preservation and access, it's important to identify the highest quality version of a production.
Cataloging will improve the depth of information about each tape and make it easy to search across the collection. A visual inspection can reveal problems, such as a poor wind or shedding of tape particles, that may cause difficulty during digitization.

Join us in this new effort to save the history of Scribe and the stories of the many community organizations in Philadelphia, and learn about audiovisual archiving in the process! Excerpts of Community Visions programs will be screened throughout the day, and refreshments will be served.

Limited space - Pre-registration appreciated!
Email: mj41@nyu.edu with the shift you will come: 11am-5pm, 11am-2pm or 2-5pm

co-sponsored by the
Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, New York University
and the Independent Media Interest Group of the Association of Moving Image Archivists

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Community Visions Premiere

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Tuesday, August 31 @ 7PM
International House, 3701 Chestnut Street

Join us for a celebration of the completion of the latest videos produced by participants in Scribe’s Community Visions program.

Community Visions teaches documentary video-making skills to members of community organizations in Philadelphia, Chester and Camden. The selected groups — usually four each year — make videos about issues that are important to their constituents. Community Visions is a part of Scribe's mission to explore, develop and advance the use of video, film, audio and interactive technology as artistic tools and as tools for progressive social change. MORE INFO

Community Visions Premiere

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 7:00pm
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Free and open to the public

Location(s)

International House at the Ibrahim Theater
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Community Visions Premiere!

Join us for a celebration of the completion of the latest videos produced by participants in Scribe’s Community Visions program.

Members of Chester’s Community Grocery Co-op address health and food access issues in Chester—a city with no supermarket and limited access to fresh food—and show how residents can make change for their community through organization and action.

The Youth Art and Self-empowerment Project explores the issues of young people being tried and incarcerated as adults and the impact this practice has on youth, their families and their communities. Through interviews with youth, inside and outside the prison system, the film explores factors that push youth into this situation and the day-to-day impact of carrying a criminal record.

Recording Audio for HDV Productions

DATES: Friday, May 7, 6:00 - 9:00 PM & Saturday, May 8, 10:00 AM –1:00 PM; SPRING 2010

Instructor: Jack Mehlbaum
Fee: $65. Free to current Community Visions participants

How do you cope with difficult sound situations? What are the pros and cons of wireless microphones? How do you master a mixer?

This special two-part workshop will look at important considerations for field recording, particularly with HDV camcorder productions, including choosing the proper gear for your project. The workshop will also look at some of the newest technological innovations for digital video sound recordings.

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