Approved for an ERDF grant and Interreg IVA funding from 2008 - 2011, the Digital Heritage team are presently in the research and development stage for the project's website www.archivesonline.co.uk / www.archivesenligne.fr
© Campling Collection, EAFA
© Monique Belot MAHNDigital Heritage Project website
The launch of the Digital Heritage Project website is scheduled for early 2011.
The site design is based on a virtual journey through the history of two regions: East Anglia’s Norfolk, Suffolk , Essex and Cambridgeshire and Upper Normandy – the departments of the Seine Maritime and Eure
The site will allow users to explore each region through archival footage comparing and contrasting the history between the two regions and open a dialogue about culture and identity of the two territories.
It is fully bilingual (French / English) at the level of content (texts, images and videos).
Cultural tourism
A simplified version of the site will be developed for smart phones equipped for Internet browsing with 3G connection and / or WiFi.
This will bring archive film into the field of cultural tourism. The user can access the content (texts, images and videos) on tours of Rouen and Norwich and throughout Upper Normandy and East Anglia.
Education
The website will also provide an education resource for schools and students
The ‘Editor’s Room’ software will offer a selection of footage rushes of both french and english, films to which can be added music and effects. Students will have to turn the opportunity to record their own commententary (voiceover) to tell the story of their own ‘edit’.
Access to this programme will require registration under supervision of Screen East and Pole Image Haute-Normandie.
This will be the basis of an exchange of distance education between France and England with a focus on the image, language or history.
Online database links for each region
The project will develop Internet access to the film collections of " Memoire Audiovisual d’ Haute-Normandie (MAHN), for over 3000 amateur films and also to the online catalogue of the East Anglian Film Archive which will offer in the region of 100 hours of their collection online.
Archive screening opportunitiesThe Digital Heritage screening production team with many years of working with archive film in broadcast are selecting films based on themes in both East Anglia and Upper Normandy which best illustrate the our filmic heritage. These films are being reworked and edited for screening on different media platforms throughout the regions to reach and entertain an increasingly wider audience.
Screen East are looking to develop a network of regular screening venues in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. Many venues have already taken advantage of this opportunity to access the archive and screened the Digital Heritage productions as ‘trailers’ before the A list feature film enhancing their audience’s experience.
If you have a screening venue – a Village Hall, Gallery, Museum or perhaps a ‘public’ screen available at your place of work, and would like to hear more about our project and opportunity to screen the archive then please contact
j.jarvis@screeneast.co.uk