Mapping the city in film: a geo-historical analysis
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Grant Holder:
Dr Julia Hallam
This project will provide the first full and extended research into the relationship between film and urban environments by developing an interactive digital map of Liverpool in film that will draw on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. Utilising already established resources on Liverpool's urban landscape in film, which include a comprehensive database of films made in and of Liverpool from 1897 to the 1980s, the research will enable different urban spatial formations (filmic, architectural, geographic) to be brought into critical spatial dialogue. Geographically referencing the film footage within contemporary and historical landscapes, this innovative project will establish a unique and sustainable model for research into cities and film.
| Project start date: 2007-11 | Project end date: 2010-07 |
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Disk publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Content-based image retrieval | Data analysis |
| Content-based sound retrieval | Data analysis |
| Moving image capture | Data capture |
| Photography | Practice-led research |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Sound editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Streaming media | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Video editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Video post production | Practice-led research |
| Video and moving image compression | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Spatial data analysis | Data analysis |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Use of existing digital data | Data capture |
Content types created:
Moving Image, Sound, Spatial, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, ArcGIS, Filemaker Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Google Maps, Adobe Premiere Elements
Digital resource created:
An interactive digital map of Liverpool in film that will draw on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology integrated with an existing database of films made in and about Liverpool.
Access to digital resource:
Restricted Access
Data Formats created:
Esri Shapefile, Waveform Audio file (WAV), JPEG, MPEG, Compressed video data as DVD images encoded in MPEG-2 format, raster data
Metadata standards employed:
Other
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Julia Hallam |
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| Other staff: | |
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| Author(s) of record | Julia Hallam |
| Title | Mapping the city in film: a geo-historical analysis |
| Record created | 2010-10-01 |
| Record updated | 2010-10-01 11:26 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3714 |
| Citation of record | Julia Hallam: Mapping the city in film: a geo-historical analysis. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3714> created: 2010-10-01, last updated 2010-10-01 11:26 |