Filming Cornwall's Red River

拍摄康沃尔的红河将包括制作一部30分钟的电视纪录片，在BBC4电视台播出，内容是关于AHRC ECR LF项目红河：聆听一条被污染的河流（AH/S012303/1）的研究成果。英国广播公司已同意在2021年10月在BBC4频道播出该节目，作为庆祝全国诗歌月的一部分。英国广播公司是该项目的合作伙伴，提供现金和实物成本（尽管由于法律和商业原因，他们无法说明播出时间的价值和与传输相关的其他成本）。该节目将包含这首长诗的节选，这首长诗是红河人权委员会原项目的实践研究成果。在19世纪80年代，这条河被描述为世界上最赚钱的河流之一，因为河水中携带的矿山沉积物产生了丰富的矿产资源。上世纪90年代康沃尔的矿业崩溃后，红河流经的普尔、雷德拉斯和坎伯恩矿区成为欧洲最贫穷的地区之一。这种转变的影响是戏剧性的和创伤性的。现在，随着投资回流到康沃尔，为“合乎道德”的稀土金属（如锂和钴）和“有利金属”（如锡）的开采提供资金，该地区再次被称为英国的矿产“克朗代克”。现在正是思考这条河流的过去、现在和未来的好时机，因为它是由采掘业塑造的一个复杂的人与自然混合的主题，并利用为红河项目创作的诗歌（以及相关的研究）来为BBC4电视台的一部关于红河的纪录片提供信息，这部纪录片将在国家层面上突出它所引起的问题。这部电影将跨越BBC电视台的艺术和自然节目类型。它将采用一种创新的拍摄方法来拍摄这条河流的小规模、受损、有时“丑陋”的外观，并颂扬它作为一种被忽视的人类/自然混合地貌的复杂性，它具有丰富的文化意义，以及受到破坏和正在恢复的生物多样性。这部电影将探讨这条河的未来，以及其他被虐待的小水道的未来。受访者将从对研究项目有贡献和影响的个人中挑选，包括当地的声音、学者和专家。访谈将在红河沿岸的地点进行，以确保该项目在细节上是当地的，但在围绕修复和当地社区参与的景观辩论方面具有全国甚至全球的意义。我们将与我们的区域合作伙伴举行现场放映和小组讨论，以确保电影能够到达通常不收看BBC4电视的当地观众，并讨论和记录对其提出的问题的影响反应。这些活动可能在伊甸园项目、心脏地带、科尔努比亚艺术与科学信托基金和埃克塞特大学彭林校区的环境可持续发展中心举行。作为红河项目的一部分，这些活动是2021年下半年计划开展的现有影响和参与活动计划的一部分。PI将与独立的前bbc制片人Simon Willis共同编写剧本。剧本、组织、采访和拍摄将从颁奖开始之日起大约两个月的时间内完成。影片将大大增强，通过创意和创新的拍摄，原来的影响，美国人权理事会资助的红河项目。该节目的观看人数在30万至60万之间。

Filming Cornwall's Red River will involve making a 30minute documentary TV film for transmission on BBC4 TV about the research findings of the AHRC ECR LF project Red River: Listening to a Polluted River (AH/S012303/1). The BBC has agreed to air the programme on BBC4 during October 2021 as part of its celebration of National Poetry Month. The BBC are a partner on the project, contributing cash and in-kind costs (although they are unable, for legal and business reasons, to state the value of air-time and other costs associated with transmissions). The programme will contain extracts from the long poem written as the practice-as-research output for the original Red River AHRC project.In the 1880s, the river was described as one of the most lucrative in the world because of the mineral wealth generated from the mine sediments carried in its water. After the collapse of mining in Cornwall in the 1990s, the mining district of Pool, Redruth and Camborne, through which the Red River flows, became one of the poorest in Europe. The impact of this shift has been dramatic and traumatic. Now, with investment flowing back into Cornwall to fund the 'ethical' extraction of rare-earth metals like lithium and cobalt, and 'enabling metals' like tin, the area is again being described as the UK's mineral 'Klondike'. This is the right moment to think about the river's past, present and future as a complex human/nature hybrid subject shaped by extractive industries, and to use the poem (and associated research) composed for the Red River project to inform a BBC4 TV documentary about the river that will foreground the issues it raises at a national level. The film will cross BBC TV's arts and nature programme genres. It will take an innovative filming approach to the small-scale, damaged and sometimes 'ugly' appearance of the river and celebrate its complexity as a neglected human/natural hybrid landform rich in culture significance, and damaged and recovering biodiversity. The film will explore questions about the future of the river and, by extension, other mistreated minor watercourses. Interviewees will be drawn from the pool of individuals who have contributed to and shaped the research project, and will include local voices as well as academics and experts. Interviews will be conducted on location at sites along the Red River to ensure the programme is local in its engagement with the detail, but of national and even global significance in terms of landscape debates around remediation and local community engagement. We will hold live regional screenings and panel discussions with our regional partners to ensure that the film reaches local audiences who do not usually access BBC4 TV, and to debate and record impact responses to the issues it raises. These events may take place at the Eden Project, Heartlands, The Cornubian Arts and Science Trust and the Environment Sustainability Centre at the Penryn Campus of Exeter University. These events form part of the existing programme of impact and engagement activities planned for the second half of 2021 as part of the Red River project.The PI will present and co-write the script with the independent ex-BBC producer Simon Willis. The scripting, organising, interviews and filming will take place over a period of approximately two months from the start date of the award. The film will greatly enhance, through creative and innovative filming, the impact of the original AHRC-funded Red River project. Project viewing figures for the programme range between 300 000 & 600 000.