Essay Plan | archive

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 –

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

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