As my final project for this course, I am editing archived still photography and video into a completed welcome video that will be shown to visitors to Chucalissa. The purpose of the video will be to provide the visitor with a general orientation to the museum and site, as well as provide an introduction to the history of the site and the people who inhabited it. It is my goal that the video will not only provide background information, but will also engender a deeper feeling of respect for the site and the people who once lived there.
This project is a practical application of the readings in new media, and the discussions that we have had on the topic, throughout the semester. With the advent of non-linear digital video editing and digital camera equipment, providing a welcome video for the visitors of a museum may be one of the most economic and effective ways for a museum to utilize new media. Also, of all the new media technologies, a video may be the most effective in terms of the visitor’s response. People of all ages are familiar with video through the medium of television and movies, and therefore will be more likely to be receptive to it, compared to more interactive medium.
There are a few problems that have arisen in the preliminary work that I have done on the video that will need to be addressed. First, there is the technical aspect of the work. In order to make the video I must sort through over a thousand photos and arrange in them in a way that not only gives the visitor information about Chucalissa, but that is appealing visually as well. Audio narration must also be recorded then edited to fit with the existing visual materials. These aesthetic and technical aspects of the project give rise to my second concern, which is that as a non-archeologist I may somehow misrepresent information unintentionally through juxtapositions of sound and video of which I might not understand. I will attempt to avoid this type of mistake by discussing the project with Dr. Connelly as I work on the editing phase.
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