Curatorial approach
- Why have i chosen it ? Why are you interested in this content and this history? – Sports Stadium , west pier are not longer with us anymore, it’ something lost history , ghost history
- Explain the history
- What aspect of the past does it reflect? – character of the Brighton (beach and activities , sea side town , entertainment from 1840- railways)
- Explain what am i going to explore
Film
First film – Brighton beach and activities –
Detail 6214 – Screen Archive South East (brighton.ac.uk)
- Brighton have been a resort even in the 1930s
- Content / representation of past – a variety of different leisure time, activities and events
- Focus on identity history in brighton
Second film – Sports Stadium (entertainment stadium –
Detail 556 – Screen Archive South East (brighton.ac.uk)
- Brief the content – introduce each scene of opening ceremony and inaugural swim in brighton’s new indoor pool
- History of sports stadium (1935~1962)
- The reason why it was demolished
- What kind of entertainment is replacing this sports stadium currently
Third film – Brighton : visit to west pier
- Summary of content – A guided tour of the dilapidated west pier in brighton
- Representation of history – why the west pier was demolished
- Why no one is trying to restore this cultural heritage
- what does this meant right now (2021/22)
- In order to remember the missing building, there is a process of giving meaning to the data through voluntary recording and collection, but the “context of disappearance” is deleted.Why it disappeared into what economic, social, and cultural context. = importance of archive
Detail 7228 – Screen Archive South East (brighton.ac.uk)
The programme:
- how do your films, within a particular order, combine to represent your theme? – The introduction focuses on aspects of Brighton’s seaside identity and how aspects of it have changed and also remained the same.
- From a view of Brighton in the 1930s – as a typical seaside resort with its two piers and attractions to the building a stunning new indoor swimming pool
- To give a sense of a confident city – continuing to build and develop
- But then a change of gear – the decline of West Pier: what does this mean? If the seaside exemplifies life, energy, health and beauty – the West Pier’s demise brings destruction and death to this happy place
- However we could better understand the present by describing something that we have missed, disappeared that we cannot see at this time 2021/22.
- TO REFLECT ON THE ICONIC STATUS OF THE WEST PIER – WHICH FOR OVER 100 YEARS WAS A SYMBOL OF MODERN BRIGHTON AND THEN WAS ALLOWED TO DECAY AND FALL INTO THE SEA
- SS Brighton – A new iconic building and its very short life
- Other aspects of the seafront which is unchanged such as the Regency terraces and squares
– The audience:
- What information and views will you offer through a programme guide? Given the rarity of archive film shows – What can be seen through the programme and my introductions
- Placing each film in context – presenting the relevant histories, highlighting the contrasts (crudely life vs death)
- How do you want your programme to influence what an audience thinks about archive film and film heritage? –
- how archive films can capture a moment in time – and what this says about the past;
- asking the audience – What does Brighton mean to you? How has it changed? What do these changes mean to you?
- what do you want an audience to learn and/or feel as a result of your programme?
- encouraging an audience to therefore reflect on then and now; encouraging an audience to reflect on time and change
- how will the individual films change when they become part of the programme?; the use of a soundtrack (music and / or narration?) –
- By combining the archive content (these three films) within this particular sequence content with introductions, the audience is guided through a screen experience that engages with the meanings of a place (Brighton), continuity and change