These resources include various material useful to a wide range of people interested in the potential of online digital media as a tool for creativity, dissemination of knowledge and information. Some of the resources provide opportunities and information for those specifically working in creative arts and education. In addition, archived documentation of events, and journals posted by Watershed programme staff during visits to festivals and conferences are posted here.
Read Watershed's Head of Programme and Encounters Short Film Festival Programmer Mark Cosgrove's blog from Singapore where he has spent time developing relationships with people in the film and creative industries and presented a programme of recent British short films around the theme of life in the city for a symposium on the city in cinema.
www.dshed.net/studio/festivals/singapore_08/singapore_journal.html
Bristol's Silent Comedy Festival, Slapstick happened in January 2008 and three of the events that took place were recorded for audiences to view online including a panel discussion taking a Fresh Look at Chaplin, Paul McGann and Matthew Sweet in conversation discussing Silent Comedy and The Great War, and festival host Paul Merton exploring the work of comedy pioneers in French Silent Clowns.
www.dshed.net/studio/events/slapstick/slapstick.html
This audio recorded event brings you top UK animators Barry Purves and Peter Lord discussing the potential of puppet animation and claymation to express emotion and character. The event took place as part of a Kawamoto the Puppet Master season at Watershed, Bristol.
www.dshed.net/studio/events/anima_panel/anima_panel.html
Film critic, broadcaster and musician Mark Kermode is the resident film critic for BBC's Radio 5 Live, and BBC News 24. In this event, Mark is joined by Richard Eyre for an onstage interview to discuss influences and aspirations in the art of filmmaking. Richard Eyre is one of the UK’s leading theatre/television/film directors. His cv reads like an enviable series of peaks in the UK’s cultural landscape.
www.dshed.net/studio/events/richard_eyre/richard_eyre.html
Self-proclaimed 'antichrist of Silicon Valley' Andrew Keen, author of recent web 2.0 polemic 'The Cult of the Amateur - How Today's Internet is Killing our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy' discussed the implications of his thinking in a round table discussion at Watershed on 7 September 2007. Special guests were Ana Kronschnabl and Hazel Grian. The event was chaired by Mark Cosgrove, Head of Programme at Watershed. For more information and recordings of the event, click the link below.
www.dshed.net/studio/events/cult_amateur/cult_amateur.html
Mark Cosgrove Watershed’s Head of Programme gives his take on some of the new films that are currently playing or coming soon at Watershed. Each month Mark will be discussing particular highlights of the programme, giving his own personal take on the titles, some of his reasons for programming the films and some industry insight.
The Digital Challenge is a UK government competition to identify a national showcase for ICT innovation. Bristol is a melting-pot of people, cultures, and ideas where world-leading digital creative industries flourish. But too many citizens and communities remain outside of this success. Connecting Bristol is the city’s dynamic response to the government's challenge and on this site you can read more, download the final bid, and find out how to pledge your support.
www.connectingbristol.org/home
A research paper written by Anthony Rowe (squidsoup) who created the interactive installation Come Closer during the 5th Clark Bursary, with Cliff Randall from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. The paper was presented at the VSMM conference in China and was awarded best paper out of 60 papers submitted.
Download PDF document:
www.dshed.net/studio/residencies/clarkbursary/documents/comecloser_paper.pdf
A report written by David Drake on ISEA2006 and ZeroOne San Jose Festival.
www.dshed.net/studio/festivals/isea_06/isea_report.html
Presentation by Professor Ian Christie as part of British Art Show 6 events at Watershed, Bristol.
http://www.dshed.net/studio/events/british_art_show/it_may_be_art.html
Digital Communities was a one day conference which took place in June 2006 at Watershed, Bristol. The event was attended by a range of media professionals and explored the implications and opportunities of interactive media and emerging technologies, from citizen media and multi-player gaming to web 2.0 and local TV. You can view and listen to the archived presentations here.
www.watershed.co.uk/digital_communities/index.html
During the year, Watershed Media Centre's Head of Programme and Encounters Creative Director Mark Cosgrove, along with other programme staff, visits various International (Film) Festivals. Mark sees the newest films, some of which get UK distribution and find their way into Watershed's film programme. He keeps a diary of his time at the festivals. Aikaterini Gegisian, project manager at Watershed and artist, visited the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2007. She wrote down her experiences too. Here you can read the festival archives.
www.dshed.net/studio/festivals/index.html
Specifically tailored for people taking the 90 Second Challenge, Watershed has teamed up with the BBC to bring you a comprehensive filmmaking guide used by the BBC's own directors.
www.bbctraining.com/modules/5915/1.asp
90 Second Challenge seeks to inspire people across Bristol, UK to make 90 seconds of digital media. It could be a film, mobile phone game, Flash or 3-D animation, Internet viral, stop-motion, a photography slideshow, audio track or VJ set. The site includes a range of useful resources and news of events and workshops.
www.dshed.net/90secondchallenge/content/resources.html
A series of resources developed as part of Electric December - the online multimedia festive calendar, including a guide to storyboarding and creating prototypes.
www.electricdecember.org/05/archive.html
The film, The Wrong Flowers, based on a poem of the same title, is about artist Brenda Cook’s schooldays in the 1940’s. Brenda is part of art + power, a group of artists with learning difficulties based in Bristol. The resource includes the complete film with clips and stills, and provides approaches to using a short film in the classroom at Key Stages 2 and 3.
www.dshed.net/digitised/art_and_power/resources/wrong_flowers
Faustus is one of many performance pieces created by art + power artists with learning difficulties. This resource investigates the way the Portway Players (art + power’s theatre company) interpreted and adapted Marlowe's play Dr Faustus, and with clips, stills, and practical exercises, provides several ways of engaging with the materials.
www.dshed.net/digitised/art_and_power/resources/faustus_index.html
Calling is a residency programme for three digital artists of African heritage, run jointly by Watershed and Kuumba. This commentary section contains essays commissioned by cultural commentators Keith Piper, Eddie Chambers, Raimi Gbadamosi and Sorious Samura. They should prove thought-provoking and relevant to anyone with an interest in the connection between creativity, technology and inclusion
www.calling.org.uk/pages/commentary.php
Alchemy is a collection of movies, music and animations created by young people at risk of exclusion, and not in education training and employment who participated in Watershed digital training projects between 2002 and 2004. This resource includes a talk by Coldcut's Matt Black.
www.dshed.net/digitised/alchemy/resources.html
Imagem (the Portuguese word for “image”), is a two-year creative media project culminating in a photography exchange between seven young people from Knowle West, Bristol, in the South West of England, and eight young people from twinned city, Oporto, in Northern Portugal. This resource includes city and architect fact files, a worksheet and ideas for teachers.
www.dshed.net/digitised/imagem/resources.html
Cherry Orchards is a therapeutic community for adults recovering from mental health problems, situated on a 20 acre organic farm on the edge of Bristol. An important part of life there is about exploring creativity through arts activities, which all members are encouraged to participate in. The site features painting, photography, egg decorating and creative writing and is accompanied by a learning resource which includes recipes and games.
www.dshed.net/digitised/CherryOrchards
The learning resource that accompanies Neighbourhood community photography
project provides information and advice about setting up community photography
projects, together with an extensive technical section full of practical
information about photographic equipment, materials and processing, plus
an ideas section to help inspire and amuse, and extensive links to many
other sites of interest.
www.dshed.net/digitised/neighbourhood/resources
Sign Hear is a website where anyone can navigate its content using British Sign Language in place of written English. It also aims to be a digital space which promotes and encourages creative expression in BSL, such as poetry, narratives and film. Since its launch in 2000, the project continues to develop, both at the technical, design and programming levels, and in accurately portraying BSL through digitised animations. Supported by Learning and Skills Council SW, Bristol 2008, and Here Nor There.
An online learning resource designed for UK students of GCSE, AS and A2 qualifications and their teachers. The site enables students to research and critically assess web resources and their use. It includes practical exercises and the opportunity to take part in online discussions where students can share their findings and experiences with other users.
www.watershed.co.uk/explorations
Reveal is a documentary photography project allowing 36 young people between the ages of 17 and 21 years to make a series of images showing their lives through portraiture in the city in which they live. A new learning resource now accompanies the creative material, offering an insight into the making of Reveal and discussing ideas and concepts of interest to photography and visual arts students, teachers, and project leaders.
www.dshed.net/digitised/reveal/resources
A creative web project reflecting on the issues raised at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 featuring work by young people from four primary schools in and around Bristol, UK. The project went live on 25 August 2002, the eve of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg a.k.a. Earth Summit 2002 or Rio +10. The participating schools are: Easton Primary, Four Acres Primary, Luckwell Primary and Winscombe Primary. Rio Kids is a Watershed project supported by The Pontin Charitable Trust.
A web resource for students and teachers of A/S, A/2 and GCSE Film and Media Studies.
This Internet resource looks closely at As I was Falling, the 60 second micro-film which won the Brief Encounters Depict prize in 1999. It takes this film as a case study, and through interviews with its filmmaker, Rachel Tillotson, examines the context in which the film was made and the filmmaker's working method. It provides information for new filmmakers about funding and the opportunities offered by festivals. For students of AS level Film and GNVQ and Media Studies, there are a wide range of tasks, and suggestions for further reading.
http://new.depict.org/films/1570/medium/
A digital and photographic journey through the Harbourside area of Bristol, starting in January 2000, made by students from St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, Henbury School and Watershed, with support from Learning Partnership West and the Halifax plc.
www.watershed.co.uk/harbourside
Working with local secondary schools, Watershed provided this educational programme and resource pack based around the Transparent Room Installation. The exhibition had great potential for discovering aspects of perception, from visual experience to spacial awareness and also raised issues around technical production. Students were able to examine how the show was made and investigate the effects of the visual and sound elements of the piece.
www.watershed.co.uk/transparent/edu/index.htm
