This morning we finished collecting the last of our resources – both finishing the scanning of photos and the final interview. This means that we have now collected not only nearly 100 scanned photos, but also over 2 hours of interview footage (both as video and sound files). The raw materials will be archived as part of the larger digital initiative between the University of Exeter and the football club, lead by Paul Farley, Prof. Gabriella Giannachi and Will Barrett.
Fact of the Day: Rumour has it that after losing to Exeter at St James’ Park in a pre-season friendly, previous FA Cup winners Coventry cancelled the rest of their tour!
This afternoon we concentrated on editing our footage into a mini documentary, creating a narrative of the season for the Grecian Voices season review page and finalising our presentation for tomorrow. The documentary includes original match footage and has been organised so that it can be viewed as a series of thematic shorts of 3 or 4 minutes on the website, but still be viewed together as a 20-minute video for the presentation.
The audio from the documentary and the uncut interviews have been collected to be stored as separate resources in the ECFC archive. Our scanned materials – photographs, match programmes and newspapers – are also being stored in the new digital archive, as well as being on the Grecian Voices Flickr stream and website, along with the written summary of the season.
The aims for output at the beginning of the week were perhaps somewhat ambitious (thanks Will!) but having created a selection of digital documentary shorts (edited into a full volume for presentation), a FLIKR and Digital Futures photographic archive (including metadata), 2 hrs of unedited interview footage (audio and visual) and a review of the season for Grecianvoices.com, it is clear how much can be learned from a small resource pool, and through capturing otherwise unseen materials and memories digitally, we can attempt to engage a wide and varied audience in our digital future!
Our thanks go to Exeter City Football Club and the Supporters Trust for the great facilities and hospitality. Special thanks must also go to Paul Farley, Martin Weiler, Laurence Overand, Richard Doorman, Matt Hayler, Craig Newbery-Jones and Gabriella Giannachi.
Tomorrows presentation will be held in Streatham Court B by David Holt, Peter Sawer and Edward Withers, and in the afternoon our whole collection of digital outputs will be on display at the Digital Futures stand in the Forum.