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

在AHRC和爱尔兰研究理事会研究网络资金的支持下，自2020年以来，“创造电影历史”项目已经提供了来自BBC档案馆、英国和爱尔兰电影学院、北爱尔兰银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学校、电影培训和高等教育的年轻电影人创造性地重复使用。一旦获得教育机构的许可，教师就可以下载200多部电影，用于课堂、校园或在线。学生浏览我们的网站，选择一部档案影片进行回复，并要求下载影片，将最多两分钟的片段整合到自己的纪录片中。这一呼吁为我们提供了一个令人兴奋的机会，在我们现有的研究和研究网络的基础上，与项目合作伙伴BBC档案馆合作，在BBC百年纪念活动的核心。BBC资料馆目前通过“制作电影历史”项目为年轻电影人提供了70部纪录片，但我们最近又策划了80部电影，以增加环境、心理健康和神经多样性以及多样性为主题的收藏。其他节目集中在早期的社区广播，纪录片叙事和制作模式的变化，青少年生活和青年文化，职业前景，移民故事和英国黑人的经历。我们提议的项目将要求全英国年龄在16-30岁之间的年轻电影人从“制作电影史”收藏中选择一个BBC节目，并制作一部短片作为回应。在贝尔法斯特、格拉斯哥、利兹/布拉德福德和伦敦的最初参与活动之后，年轻的电影制作人将对这一主题的提案进行回应，并选出50名参与者接受专业电影制作人的指导，在这四个地点制作他们的电影。被选中的电影人将拍摄受他们选择的档案电影启发的新材料，并可以在他们的电影中包含最多两分钟的档案作品。通过创造性地重新利用BBC的视听遗产，参与者将通过新一代的镜头照亮过去，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部新短片将揭示未被充分代表的社区被遗忘的历史，并反映英国的全部多样性，吸引当地和地区的电影人和观众。我们的公众记忆在BBC的节目制作中得到了体现。现在，这些节目可以被年轻的电影人重新定位，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工作坊模式，并与贝尔法斯特、格拉斯哥、利兹和伦敦的电影节、培训机构、研究中心和电影院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基础上，即在教育中创造性地再利用音像遗产。版权和通关限制以及商业许可的费用以前对创造性地重新使用音像遗产造成了障碍。通过与我们的项目合作伙伴合作，我们消除了这些障碍，并为年轻电影制作人创造了一种新的模式，用于非商业、教育用途的创造性再利用。现在有75所高等教育机构和十几个电影节和培训机构可以访问这些档案资源。这是一个雄心勃勃但非常可行的项目，建立在一个创新的、经过试验和测试的教育创造性再利用的研究模型上。英国广播公司的视听历史是这个项目的核心，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，通过新一代电影人的眼睛重新想象电视史上的关键时刻。

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.