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.

Today was a long, hard-working but really rewarding day. We started off the morning by splitting our group into two: One team planned and drew up a range of questions to be answered by our two interviewees of the day, Paul Farley and Martin Weiler, both members of the Exeter City’s Fund Trust and huge supporters of the Exeter City F.C. The second team approached the wide range of archive resources from yesterday to find and select appropriate images to be uploaded to our documentary film. This will ensure we have a diverse and interesting range of footage for our final product. Fact Of The Day: The Exeter City F.C. match day programmes changed price from 60p per copy to £1 per copy from 1st May onwards due to printing the new copies in colour! wow.

After these tasks were completed, our group spent the afternoon interviewing Paul Farley and Martin Weiler and in doing so managed to obtain plenty of raw footage for our documentary film that we aim to complete tomorrow.      

We also succeeded in transferring a large number of archive resources (i.e. photos from match-day programmes, newspapers etc.) into digital format online.

Here is the webpage where the photos from the archive have been digitally uploaded: http://humanities-research.exeter.ac.uk/digitalfuturesarchive/items/browse?collection=2

Overall, it’s been a hard-working, productive day. Bring on tomorrow.

Today we took our crocodile from the cupboard and began analysing its contents. This morning, we looked at the different types of sources at our disposal, including newspapers, match-day programmes and video footage from the season. We trawled through these to find key information and themes to go towards compiling a storyboard for our documentary film.

This afternoon, we brought our findings together and cherry-picked recurring themes and ideas. For example, the vast array of sources all picked up on the significance of manager Terry Cooper’s role in success of the team that season.

We decided to focus on the idea of supporters’ contemporary reflections. For example, after their disappointing performance in 1988/89, few expected too much from Exeter City; but, after the success of the 1989/90 season, many then expected the team to compete for subsequent promotion to an even higher league. This illustrates how events can influence public opinion.

Fact of the day: Despite their brilliant home record, Exeter’s away record was amongst the worst in the division!

After this, we created a brief storyboard and outlined questions for our interviewees tomorrow.  We are now ready to begin collecting raw material for our film, in the form of digitised archive material and interview footage.

Other finds: Ronaldo outwitted by Exeter player Scott Hiley:

 Next year marks the 25^th Anniversary of Exeter City Football Club’s one and only league title win since 1989/90. Over the course of this week, our aim is to investigate the events and legacy of this season through as many documentary sources as possible, to digitally document these sources, and to produce a narrative of the season which reflects both what happened on and off the pitch that year.

Fact of the Day: The year that Exeter last won a League title was the same as the last time Liverpool won one – during the 1989/90 season!

Following the lectures and seminars this morning, our group headed to St James Park, home of Exeter City F.C. Throughout the week we will be based in the Chairman’s exclusive boardroom and box where we will assess relevant content from the club’s archive in order to create content for the City fan website grecianvoices.com including images, a poster and a short documentary film.

The material in the archives was collected by dedicated fans and includes programmes, newspapers and other memorabilia from the full range of Exeter City’s 110 year history.

We took a multimedia tour of the stadium using an interactive map. This map contextualised the history of the site by providing information at relevant points on the tour.