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    • A Trip Sideways to the BBC
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    • Academia and a developing Artistic Practice 2007 - 2016
    • 2015 & 2016 Cinefest Bristol International Festival of Cinematography
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      • RWA, FRPS, academic
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      • Proposed Exhibition
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    • Collaboration: Terry Flaxton Emily Burridge
    • Collaboration: Terry Flaxton Charlotte Humpston
    • Collaboration: Terry Flaxton Al Lethbridge
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    • Channel 4 - Moving Image Art Resources
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    • Short Dramas
    • Music Industry Work
    • Music and Sound 1969 - 1975
    • An Early History of Video Art in the UK
    • Theatre Work
    • The Cold War Game: The Soviet Union
  • Phd
    • Abstract >
      • Aims of the Critical Commentary
      • Introduction: practice as research as an investigative tool and methodology
      • Prologue: My Prior Development as an Industry Practitioner, Artist & Academic
    • Portfolio 1 Guide >
      • Critical Commentary on Portfolio 1
      • Portfolio 1 Complete list of outputs
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      • Critical Commentary on Portfolio 2
      • Portfolio 2 Complete list of outputs
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      • Portfolio 4 Complete list of outputs
    • Phd Conclusion >
      • Consolidated Bibliography of Works Referred to in the Critical Commentaries
      • Key Propositions from the Research Period
      • Complete List of Outputs
      • Extra Resources >
        • ​1. Context for Research from 1971 forwards
        • ​2. Emerging technologies in industry prior to the research period (2007)
        • ​3. High Resolution Research 2007 - 2010
        • 4. Higher Dynamic Range Research 2010 - 2016
        • 2016 Bristol International Festival of Cinematography Video Documentation >
          • Cinefest 2016 Trailer
        • 2015 Bristol International Festival of Cinematography Video Documentation
        • The Verbatim History of Digital Cinematography >
          • The FIlms of Roberto Schaefer ASC, AIC at Encounters 2013 >
            • Professor Duncan Petrie on the structure of film training in the UK
            • An introduction to 'Resolution'
            • Projection Mapping
            • An Introduction to Motion Capture
            • Cinematographers Discuss Their Role
            • The Neurocinematics of FIlm: Hasson et al
            • RGB-Z Depth Capture in real time
            • The Future of Display Technology
            • CMIR ONE >
              • 18 Seconds
              • BOUNCE
              • 7 seconds
              • 4 seconds
          • Verbatim Interviews
          • The Verbatim History of the Aesthetics and Technologies of Analogue Video
          • A History of Video Art
          • Discussions




Prisoners

An Experiment in Online Interactivity

The 4 excerpts below were shot for Apple and edited together from footage gathered in 1983 during the shooting of Ridley Scott's commercial for Apple called '1984'. Apple used the footage for communications with their employees but also to trail the commercial which was to be shown only once during the 1984 Superbowl. I was the cinematographer for Apple and I took a copy of the footage which became 'The Making of 1984' which appears in one of these sections. The names in the top right do not indicate the order to play the excerpts back - they were my labeling for organizational purposes. But in some ways they represent a linear pathway through the footage that you might take. But resist numbering just in case more will be revealed by watching each in a different order.

If you are interested in what you see I invite you to contact me to add both ideas about interactivity or content that you have made that is directly relevant to the issues raised - either by interactive documentary, the notion of the digital, the political use of moving images, advertising, global business - you choose. Contact me here with a utube address and I'll connect your content in here. With regard ideas, we're interested in what we might be able to do with additional code - so if you have an idea on that get in touch. Terry Flaxton