UC Berkeley MACTiA

Guidelines for Project Assignment, Milestone 3: Documenting the theme through digital technology

Milestone 3 (10%) is due on June 7th.

Before you start

Your reading will be determined by your technology choice. Readings and links are all in BSpace Resources>Readings on Technical Themes. These are the required readings for Milestone 3. The others that are in those folders are for your reference; you will find them invaluable as you proceed with the project:

• Still:

Guha, S.
2002 The visual in archaeology: photographic representation of archaeological practice in British India. Antiquity 76(291):93-100.
Nicholson, P.
2001 Three-dimensional imaging in archaeology: its history and future. Antiquity 75(288):402-409.

• Moving:

Shrum, W. 2005 Digital Video as Research Practice: Methodology for the Millennium. Journal of Research Practice ICAAP 1(1):M4:1-19.
Hampe, B. 1997. Making documentary films and reality videos: a practical guide to planning, filming, and editing documentaries of real events. New York: Henry Holt and Company 6-29

• Remix:

Remix Planet. Issue (all articles) of Wired Magazine, July 2005

Watch and/or download the Creative Commons movie

Anderson, S. in press-b. “Past Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant History,” in Interactive Frictions. Edited by M. Kinder and T. McPherson. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (12 pages)

• Excavating Existing Archives

Yale tutorial
Canadian manual

Escobar, D. 2001 Creating History Documentaries. Prufrock Press, Waco, Texas. 35-64 (in MACTiA West)

What is expected for Milestone 3:
On one page, write the plan of how you will apply your selected documentation technique to documenting your theme and chosen area of Fort Winfield Scott. You will perhaps focus on a specific place in Fort Scott which might be quite small (the bridge, for example, or one building), or it might be a specific thing that applies to several places (for example, things for warming buildings and cooking, doorways), or it might be a specific set of stakeholders (such as the gun mathematicians). Keep it simple and small and manageable.

Think of your plan as a kind of storyboard or cognitive map of the story that you will be telling.
Your plan ( due on Thursday 7 June) will need:

• the “story” that creates the focus of what you are going to record. Every research topic can be expressed as a narrative, and should be, as a first step. What sparks your curiosity about or attraction to this topic? What are your expectations for your documentation and investigation.
• who is your intended audience? what other stories could be written about your topic for other audiences/interest groups?
• what documentation might already exist to support your story in the SF Presidio or other archives or publications (a list would be useful)
• what documentation do you need to create (make a list)
• how (with what techniques) will you create this documentation?

How to hand in Milestone 3:
Please post your document to the discussion board on bspace and include the text in the body of the message. There is an example of this posted.