Documentation

 

Glitterbird is not a research project but a project that develops and presents art for children less than 3 year. We have to find ways of documenting the exciting art productions that are being made over the next 2 years. In order to document art projects, we need a discussion of what we are going to use the material for. We have said in the application to EU that we are going to present something written in the end of the project.

We think that two objectives are vital to the project:

·       All art-productions must make some kind of documentation, which can be used by you (the artist) in your further work

·       Extracts can be put on the internet to inform your international colleagues, and the AC can use extracts in our final report.

We have to find how we will use the resources for documentation in the EU budget.

  • Video

  • CD-rom

  • photos

  • sound

  • text

 

GUIDELINES

Some of these questions could be guidelines to the artist:

In the beginning of the process:

1: Why are we in this project?

·       What do we want to try out?

·       What do we think will be the challenges for us?

·       Why do we want to get in contact with this audience?

·       In what way do we think this will develop our artistic expression?

 

2: Ideas

·       Why do we think it will be relevant/ interesting for the audience to be presented to this idea?

·       How do we think they can relate to the theme and the art form?

 

During the process:

3: Mile-stones

·       When the process enters a new face or is taking a new direction, for example when you show it to an audience to get response

 

In the end of the production:

4: Results

·       comparing the production and the response from the audience with your intentions from the beginning

·       did we gather the experience we wanted?

·       what did surprise us?

 

DOCUMENTING

1) Make a video-interview of 10-15 minutes the artist

Ask following questions:

·       What surprised you in this production?

  • How did you think the production in relation to the children?

- In planning

- Choosing theme

- Giving form

- Working with the artists 

- Meeting with the children

·       How do you find the communication between the artists and the children?

·       What have you seen of children’s’ responses (i.e.: body movements, hand gestures or leg gestures, being at ease, making sounds, open mouths, eye focus, relation to the adult)

2) Log-book

From the process of making art. Of meeting with the children.

3) Digital video-recording

Of the art product. Of the audience to the art product.

4) Digital photos

From situation in work with the children. Of the children. Of the production.

 

Other aspects

Each production can choose other aspects to focus on: ex. the relationship to the audience or specific artistic challenges. It is important that we plan before filming.

  • to find the targets for our filming

  • what group of children are our target group

  • how are we going to relate to the target group

 

VIDEO FILMING

Bad quality in filming makes the possibility to present our material in TV or for production of dvd not possible. Film is good for:

  • seeing

  • observing

  • discovering

  • find themes for discussion

  • find themes for reflection etc.

If our material is going to be used for research we have to focus on what we want to look for through our filming. It is important to use video to preserve our experiences as an audience and that we are able to take care of the children’s reactions. We can compare our own experiences with the recorded material of the children. The smaller details we are looking for, the more important it is to have material where the impulse and the response is synchronised.

When we look at the audience response, it is important to compare video of the performance with video of the children. (Reception analyses).

The relation between

  • art presentation

  • audience reactions

 

Making of art has different phases:

PLANNING

PRODUCTION
PRESENTATION
RESEPEPTION

REFLEKTION
 


Ideas for discussion:

How are we going to document the project?
1) Are we going to involve other people than the artists and the project manager in gathering documentation?  
 
2) From the financial point of view - how much money do we have, what is possible to make within that frame


3) What would be the most useful product - the product that gives the best impression of what has been made and which results we have reached?
 

4) What is the artist’s responsibility?

 

5) What is the project – management/coordinators’ responsibility?