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FOCAL International Training Workshop for Audiovisual Archives

For the first time, professional experts from the archive business in Europe and the USA will share their expertise with delegates at this 3 day international workshop.

Location: Centrum Hall World Trade Centre, Mumbai, India

Date: 22-24 March 2010

Registration fee: $120 for three days inclusive

Programme

Day 1 – 22 March 2010

09.30 AM Introductions

  • Keynote speaker – Peter Einstein Managing partner EMCP (UK) Ltd, Dubai
  • Introduction to the workshops and FOCAL International by chair – Sue Malden, UK
  • Presentations by delegates of the archives they work in and expectations of the course, inc Zee Television India.
  • Analogue archives -Richard Wright, BBC, UK

14.30 PM Technology

  • Digital archives -Richard Wright, BBC, UK
  • Audio and video archiving, in the context of outsourcing versus insourcing – Michel Merten, Memnon, the Netherlands

Day 2 - 23 March 2010

09.30 AM

• Film restoration and colour scienceFilm restoration - Christopher Dusendschön of iO Film
• The evolution of watermarking and fingerprinting technologies-Jaap Haitsma, Civolution, The Netherlands
• Impact of digitisation on the archive workflow - Jacqui Gupta, Media Management Commission of FIAT/IFTA, UK

14.30 PM

  • Metadata- what is it ; what is its value?– Luke Smedley, AP Archive, UK
  • International Rights situation and impact on archives– Hubert Best, FOCAL International, Sweden

Day 3 – 24 March 2010

09.30 AM

  • The BFI project – a case study – Charles Fairall, BFI

• The entire workflow from content (film & video) transfer to content restoration to content archive -Sami Al Shafai, Executive Director Salam Media Cast

14.30 PM

  • Running a Footage sales operation – Karena Smith, BAFTA, UK
  • An Indian case study - Yusuf Batliwala, BBC Motion Gallery, India
  • Theresearchers role – Sue Malden, FOCAL International, UK
  • • Close and summary from our hosts Famous studios – our hosts

There will be visits to local digitisation facilities

For more information: info@focalint.org or www.focalint.org

 

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REGISTRATION FEES: $120 per delegate for three days inclusive

 

FEES - PAYMENT

Please note that all payments must be done in Dollars at the event.

Local contact: rajiv shah [rajivcshah@yahoo.com]