2010 documentary

This project was a one week introduction to film and video. The task was to make a documentary on the nofitstate circus. The crew aged 13-17 decided on the group name "Tightwired".
During the week they filmed the nofitstate circus performance "ImMortal" and interviewed several performers. Some of the performance was shot on super-8 and 16mm film.

Working on the new Digital Archive

Toby has written:Some guidelines for editors of the NoFit State archive website 

– open to suggestions and revision

The website may be visited (and quoted) by all sorts of people, from journalists to funders, historians to family and friends.

So in the text we should retain a fairly neutral tone, and avoid in-jokes that might be misinterpreted or lead to people feeling excluded, or a chatty style that might look amateurish.

In the text area the default font will do – you are welcome to use HTML code if you are comfortable with it, but there is nothing uglier than broken code in text, so make sure it resolves.

Some fields for dates will have suggested style, but in free text we have settled for 13 Aug 1998, as a consistent look is more comfortable on the eye.

Any URL links should have some text of explanation as to where the link will take you if you click:

i.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8zDP0LBO4A 20 years in 10 minutes 10’31”.

Ideally they get merged, so you don’t even see the code.

20 years in 10 minutes 10’31

We should try to use accurate facts and spellings. If you are not sure of something, but want to add it to the site, please use a question mark in brackets (?) to highlight any detail for proof-readers and fact-checkers to follow up.

In terms of the data we are adding (e.g. tour dates), no facts at all are better than wrong facts. A gap draws attention to itself as something needing completing, whereas a wrong fact or spelling can be overlooked and become embedded.

            Attribution should be given where possible, to photographers, newspapers, writers, etc.

We need to decide how to approach the People profiles. They should have a choice of picture and text, but we might want to research (Linked-In, the NoFit State website, etc) and add basic Biogs for people. This is a whole big task.