ORAL HISTORY PROJECT PRODUCTION AND MEDIA PROJECT DEVELOPMENT:
STANLEY KUBRICK ARCHIVE
Client: University of the Arts, London
Oral Historian / Media Producer / Consultant
2012: Responsibility for producing and conducting on-camera interviews resulting in new oral history recordings that will be a supplement to the Stanley Kubrick Archive.
Production of themed web videos using the HD video interviews that were an outcome of the project. Watch two of the videos, Finding and Developing the Story, and Music below. For best quality, click play, then click on the gear wheel at the bottom right of the video window to select 720p HD.
Oral Historian / Media Producer / Consultant
2012: Responsibility for producing and conducting on-camera interviews resulting in new oral history recordings that will be a supplement to the Stanley Kubrick Archive.
Production of themed web videos using the HD video interviews that were an outcome of the project. Watch two of the videos, Finding and Developing the Story, and Music below. For best quality, click play, then click on the gear wheel at the bottom right of the video window to select 720p HD.
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Invited speaker at Kubrick exhibition symposium at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The presentation provided an overview of the oral history project and theatre presentation of the two videos to an audience of over 250 attendees. Click the exhibition photographs above to blow up each image.
ORAL HISTORY BOOK:
INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC: THE ART OF INVENTION
Client: Abrams Publishing
Researcher / Interviewer / Author
This 400-page book is an extensively illustrated oral history of the multiple-Academy-Award®-winning visual effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975. Its tale begins with a small team of craftspeople, engineers, and artists who pioneered analog effects that had never before been attempted or realized on the screen for Star Wars. A behind-the-scenes record of the state-of-the-art innovations that have driven moviemaking magic, the book features candid stories from the filmmakers, artists, and technicians who were there, breaking barriers and changing the history of cinema with their early work on cultural landmarks, such as the Star Wars saga, the Indiana Jones series, E.T., Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park. The book was featured in the 2011 Holiday Buying Guide in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
Read more about the book by clicking on the cover image, above.
And click here to read the latest review.
Researcher / Interviewer / Author
This 400-page book is an extensively illustrated oral history of the multiple-Academy-Award®-winning visual effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975. Its tale begins with a small team of craftspeople, engineers, and artists who pioneered analog effects that had never before been attempted or realized on the screen for Star Wars. A behind-the-scenes record of the state-of-the-art innovations that have driven moviemaking magic, the book features candid stories from the filmmakers, artists, and technicians who were there, breaking barriers and changing the history of cinema with their early work on cultural landmarks, such as the Star Wars saga, the Indiana Jones series, E.T., Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park. The book was featured in the 2011 Holiday Buying Guide in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
Read more about the book by clicking on the cover image, above.
And click here to read the latest review.
ORAL HISTORY FACILITATOR: EARLY ENGINEERS GALLERY INSTALLATION
Client: Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive, Gillingham, U.K.
Reminiscence Facilitator / Trainer / Audio Editor
Training of students from Mid Kent College in oral history techniques, facilitating / overseeing reminiscense sessions conducted by students after training, editing of audio recordings into short presentations for the Museum’s new local history gallery and a series of related podcasts.
The project was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Reminiscence Facilitator / Trainer / Audio Editor
Training of students from Mid Kent College in oral history techniques, facilitating / overseeing reminiscense sessions conducted by students after training, editing of audio recordings into short presentations for the Museum’s new local history gallery and a series of related podcasts.
The project was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
ORAL HISTORY FACILITATOR: SOUNDING OUT YOUR HERITAGE
Client: Group for Education in Museums, U.K.
Reminiscence Facilitator / Trainer / Audio Editor / Toolkit Advisor
Leading oral history sessions with over-60s from community in Brompton, training participants in oral history techniques, editing of audio recordings into presentations for CD distribution.
Learn more about the project at: http://www.gem.org.uk/soyh/project/project3.php
Reminiscence Facilitator / Trainer / Audio Editor / Toolkit Advisor
Leading oral history sessions with over-60s from community in Brompton, training participants in oral history techniques, editing of audio recordings into presentations for CD distribution.
Learn more about the project at: http://www.gem.org.uk/soyh/project/project3.php
