Hi David (and all)
From my all-too-brief conversations with Katy and colleagues from other
museums the answer seems to me to be, yes, there is a methodology to
(video) recording as a means of crafts transmission.
It would be a great MA thesis for someone to do some research into the
effectiveness of new media as a teaching methodology for crafts (and
indeed, now I write it like that, it strikes me there is very probably a
report gathering dust somewhere that the heritage community is unaware
of).
Best wishes and Season's Greetings,
Pat
In message <[log in to unmask]>, David Kilgour
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>It is the texts and videos that interest me most as an aid to craft recording and instruction. As we see, the cash is on the table for MERL and some
>of the rural museums to make videos presently. There has been some funding for coppicing texts also. I suspect craft recording could gain popular
>appeal, like oral history or genealogy, funding or no funding. Thanks Pat Reynolds for pointing out that the volunteer film makers are already out
>there in Surrey. Is there a method for it? Can we say why one craft record is better than the next, why one book or film is better than another for
>record or instruction? There are so many craft books, so much film footage on craft already. How to ensure that the next crop is the best yet and
>serves the present hope of preserving endangered craft skills for ever?
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Pat Reynolds
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