Make Film History: Opening up the BBC Archives to Young Filmmakers

在AHRC和爱尔兰研究理事会的研究网络资金支持下，自2020年以来，Make Film History项目已提供了来自BBC档案馆、英国和爱尔兰电影学院、北方爱尔兰屏幕和伦敦社区视频档案馆的200多部电影，供英国和爱尔兰各地的学校、电影培训和高等教育中的年轻电影制片人进行创意重用。一旦获得教育机构的许可，教师可以下载200多部电影，供课堂、校园或在线使用。学生浏览我们的网站，选择一个档案电影回应，并要求下载访问电影，最多两分钟的剪辑集成到自己的纪录片。这一呼吁提供了一个令人兴奋的机会，建立在我们现有的研究和研究网络，与项目合作伙伴，英国广播公司档案，在英国广播公司的百年事件的核心。BBC档案馆目前通过Make Film History项目为年轻电影制作人提供70部纪录片，但我们最近策划了另外80部电影，以增加环境，心理健康和神经多样性以及多样性主题的收藏。其他节目集中在早期的社区广播，不断变化的模式，纪录片讲故事和生产，青少年生活和青年文化，职业前景，移民和英国黑人经历的故事。我们提议的项目将邀请16岁的年轻电影制片人-30在英国各地选择一个英国广播公司的节目，从使电影历史收集和创建一个短片，以回应它。在贝尔法斯特，格拉斯哥初步参与活动后，利兹/布拉德福德和伦敦，年轻的电影制片人将响应呼吁，就这一主题的建议，50名参与者将被选中接受指导，从一个专业的电影制片人，使他们的电影在这四个地点。被选中的电影制作人将拍摄他们选择的档案电影的新材料，并可以在他们的电影中包括长达两分钟的档案工作。通过对BBC视听遗产的创造性再利用，参与者将照亮过去，并通过新一代的透镜重新诠释BBC历史上的关键时刻，使其与他们今天的生活和社区相关，以他们的方式拍摄和编辑。这50部新短片将揭示被遗忘的历史，反映英国的多样性，吸引当地和地区的电影制片人和观众。我们的大部分公共记忆都体现在BBC的节目制作中。现在，年轻的电影制作人可以将这些节目重新融入到他们的背景中，并与他们的社区分享。我们将遵循我们在过去两年中开发的成功研讨会模式，并与电影节，培训机构，研究中心和电影院在贝尔法斯特，格拉斯哥，利兹和伦敦的电影历史研究网络的现有合作伙伴合作，如下所述。这个项目建立在我们现有的研究，创造性地再利用视听遗产的教育。版权和许可限制以及商业许可证的费用以前对创造性地再利用视听遗产构成了障碍。通过与我们的项目合作伙伴合作，我们消除了这些障碍，并创造了一个新的模式，让年轻的电影制片人将其用于非商业性的教育用途。75所高等教育机构和十几个电影节和培训机构现在可以访问这一档案资源。这是一个雄心勃勃但非常可行的项目，建立在一个创新的，久经考验的教育创造性再利用的研究模型之上。BBC的视听历史是该项目的核心，为年轻的创意人员提供了一个可管理的电影选择来浏览和回应，创造了50部新的短片，通过新一代电影制作人的眼睛重新想象电视历史上的关键时刻。

Supported by research network funding from AHRC and the Irish Research Council, since 2020, the Make Film History project has made available over 200 films from BBC Archive, the British and Irish Film Institutes, Northern Ireland Screen and the London Community Video Archive for creative reuse by young filmmakers in schools, film training and higher education across the UK and Ireland. Once licensed by an educational institution, over 200 films can be downloaded by tutors for use in the classroom, on campus or online. Students browse our website, choose an archive film to respond to and request download access to the film, integrating clips of up to two minutes into their own documentaries. This call provides an exciting opportunity to build on our existing research and research network, working with a project partner, BBC Archive, at the heart of the BBC's centenary events. BBC Archive currently provides young filmmakers with access to 70 documentaries through the Make Film History project, but we have recently curated a further 80 films to add to the collection on the themes of the Environment, Mental Health and Neurodiversity, and Diversity. Other programmes in the collection focus on the early years of community broadcasting, changing modes of documentary storytelling and production, teenage life and youth culture, career prospects, stories of immigration and the Black British experience.Our proposed project will ask young filmmakers aged 16-30 across the UK to choose a BBC programme from the Make Film History collection and create a short film in response to it. After initial engagement events in Belfast, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford and London, young filmmakers will respond to a call for proposals on this theme and fifty participants will be selected to receive mentoring from a professional filmmaker to make their films across these four locations. The selected filmmakers will shoot new material inspired by the archive film they choose and can include up to two minutes of the archive work in their film. Through creative reuse of the BBC's audio-visual heritage, participants will illuminate the past and reinterpret key moments from BBC history through the lens of a new generation, making it relevant to their lives and communities today, filmed and edited their way. These fifty new short films will uncover the forgotten histories of underrepresented communities and reflect the full diversity of the UK, engaging local and regional filmmakers and audiences. Much of our public memory is enshrined in BBC programme-making. Now these programmes can be recontextualised by young filmmakers and shared with their communities. We will follow the successful workshop model we have developed over the past two years and work with existing partners in the Make Film History research network of film festivals, training organisations, research centres and cinemas in Belfast, Glasgow, Leeds and London, as described below. This project builds on our existing research into the creative reuse of audio-visual heritage in education. Copyright and clearance restrictions and the cost of commercial licensing have previously imposed barriers to creatively reusing audio-visual heritage. By working with our project partners, we have removed these barriers and created a new model for creative reuse by young filmmakers for non-commercial, educational use. 75 higher education institutions and a dozen film festivals and training organisations now access this archival resource. This an ambitious but very feasible project, built on an innovative, tried and tested research model of creative reuse in education. The audio-visual history of the BBC is at the heart of the project, giving young creatives a manageable selection of films to browse and respond to, creating fifty new short films which reimagine key moments from television history through the eyes of a new generation of filmmakers.