Examples of online full motion video

 

Educational: [1]

The WGBH/Boston Forum Network serves as an aggregator and archivist for cultural lectures. Its web site includes a number of on-demand videos of lectures, including many on Art and Architecture. Partners include a number of Boston-area museums, colleges, universities and other cultural organizations. The Forum Network About Us page says "Through this online service thousands of interested people across the world partake of these lectures from the comfort of their home or office at any time they choose."

Boston Athenaeum partnered with the Forum Network for a series of lectures on American art by David Dearinger, who is Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum. An art historian and curator, he received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a specialty in nineteenth-century American art. Titles include:

also from the Boston Athenaeum:

In August, 2005 TFAO learned from Monica Higgins, Events Director of the Boston Athenaeum, that when her organization associated with the Forum Network, the Athenaeum had already been videotaping lectures. The Forum Network offered to send a camera and operator to tape lectures, but since the Athenaeum had its own equipment the Forum Network's videotaping service was not required.

Recently, the Athenaeum has decided to upgrade their camera and support equipment and is considering a budget of about $11,000 for that purpose. One of the reasons for obtaining a new camera is because the lecture hall's configuration necessitates placement of the camera in the rear of the auditorium, with use of a strong zoom capability and high sensitivity to low lighting levels. Also, the Athenaeum wants to have the type of taping to be in sync with upcoming standards, e.g. high definition's picture aspect.

In terms of speaker releases, the Athenaeum received from its legal counsel a document contemplating web streaming, and is in the process of amending it to include podcasting. A link to the Forum Network page containing the list of lectures partnered with the Athenaeum is available through the Events Calendar link on the Athenaeum web site home page.

Lectures on American art originate also from other partners including:

Museum of Afro-American History:

Julie Crawford of the Museum of Afro-American History shared with TFAO that their production agreement with Forum Network provides for videotaping services at the museum by Forum Network personnel. Forum Network has developed a speaker release form, targeted towards online streaming, which is provided to partners for their use with lecturers. A link to the Forum Network page containing the list of lectures partnered with the museum is available through the Events > Boston pull down menu on the museum's web site home page.

Old South Meeting House:

Deaf Artist: The World of John Brewster, Jr., (32 minutes) a lecture by Harlan Lane, psychologist, historian and distinguished professor at Northeastern University, examines this extraordinary American portrait artist and how his memberships within multiple worlds (Puritan, Federalist elite, Deaf and Art) converged to leave an enduring legacy. [September 23, 2004]
 
Michelle LeBlanc, Education Director for the Old South Meeting House, explained to TFAO that her organization pays an annual fee to the Forum Network for their services. Forum Network initially filmed lectures for the Old South Meeting House. More recently, Old South Meeting House obtained a grant to acquire a camera system, including a camera and adapter, costing around $1,000 (the organization already had an audio system). Having their own equipment, Old South Meeting House began taping the lectures in-house. After filming they furnish raw digital tapes to the Forum Network for editing. The Old South Meeting House plans to revise their web site to allow them to stream videos on the site.

Simmons College Institute for Leadership & Change

Drawing Diversity with Jennifer Camper, (56 minutes) is a lecture by Jennifer Camper, comic artist and editor of the new comic anthology Juicy Mother, who brings contributing artists together to discuss comics as an expressive medium that is not representative enough in terms of diversity of perspectives. [June 2, 2005]
 
TFAO believes that Drawing Diversity offers improved production qualities as compared to some earlier Forum Network presentations.


Eli Ingraham of WGBH is project director for the Forum Network. In August, 2005 Ms. Ingraham shared with TFAO information on the Forum Network (FN) and its relationship with partners. Some pointers:

Image rights management is an issue that needs to be carefully considered by museums planning the videoecording of lectures. Images being shown on a screen may need copyright clearance. Absent image rights clearance for some lectures, museums can stream the audio track. About 40% of FN content is audio only.

Another lecture scenario that avoids image clearance issues is the taping of artists with images of their own work for which they hold copyrights. An example is the Wolf Kuhn lecture held at Wheaton College.

FN partners can bring in a FN videographer and equipment for onsite taping, or partners can become trained to do their own videography with their own equipment. FN's method of videotaping lectures entails one camera. If FN provides taping service, FN requires a partner to furnish its own sound system with a sound board accessible to the FN videographer.

If FN tapes a lecture, FN controls the use of the content. If a partner films the lecture, the partner has the right to distribute the content other than through FN. For this reason, and for cost efficiency, some partners are acquiring their own equipment and training their own people. About $1,200 will purchase a camera and tripod of sufficient quality for taping lectures.

FN charges partners a yearly fee for its bundle of services which include storage and streaming services; some onsite videography support; a videography "boot camp" to help train museum staff to handle their own production; promotion within WGBH's service area, and inclusion in FNs website and branded presence.

FN is working with Open Media Network, a back-end technology company that distributes full-screen, high bit rate encoded content, to provide future audio-video material

The WGBH/Boston Forum Network is a component of a growing national network of public television and radio stations offering online lecture webcasts. The Forum Network website states: "These lectures are contributed to our national archive and made available to other participating stations to offer on their local Forum Network Websites." Other stations include:

WBGH's phone number is 617-300-2000.

WGBH/Boston also presents a 3-minute QuickTime video clip in which John Wilson talks about his sculpture Eternal Presence, being installed on the lawn of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury. The original airdate of the program containing the segment was October 1, 1987. In another 2 1/2 minute clip, artist Sidewalk Sam works with Boston schoolchildren to create a mural.

 

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1 Educational examples focus on American representational art.

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