Narrator: Call for Editors.
Seeking: film editors, those with an interest in found footage, editing, and user generated content.
‘Narrator’ (working title), is an explorative art project that will form part of the exhibition User Generated Content, this exhibition is collaboration between Madlab, Manchester and Blank Media Collective.
‘Narrator’ is a project in which three independent editors work with footage sourced from user-generated content; a combination of tweets, status updates, YouTube uploads and video portraits. User-generated content will be used to create three pseudo documentaries on the AV referendum.
Editors will be provided with footage, however you are free to source additional footage. Your film can be of any length, and you are free to be as creative as you choose. It is up to you as the editor to decide how to proceed with your film. You may spend as little or as much time as you choose on the project. Each film will be presented alongside each other, so subjective independent views maybe observed.
How to enter:
Deadline 12th May 6pm.
Please send the following information to info@jennifer-ross.co.uk
- A brief statement of you interest within the project (max 500 words)
- CV
- Links to your work online
- Contact details
Please note you will only be contacted if selected. If you are selected you will be provided with footage on 14th May via ‘yousendit.com’. You will then have until 19th May to create your film. Please only enter if you are able to complete the project in time.
Background information:
Incorporating many different voices through user-generated content in documentary film seems to be the digital age’s response to Jean Rouch’s concern in the 1950’s of greater participation by the ethnographic other. User-generated content eliminates the middleman by allowing subjects access to cameras and the ability to produce their own footage. User-generated content provides points-of-view previously unavailable to the documentary filmmaker, however the originally democratic intent of user-generated content is ultimately usurped by the point of view of the editor in documentary films. The three finished films will be an exploration into the dichotomy of the editor.
USER GENERATED CONTENT is an exhibition about social media, self-publishing and the virtual environments that we create for ourselves. The exhibition will be an exploration into the deepening relationship we now have with technology with regards to the social aspects of our lives.
The term ‘social media’ has been defined by Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein – and has been categorized into 6 different forms. These have been identified as collaborative projects, blogs and microblogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual communities. User Generated Content is a term to describe the various interactive online activities.
