Ask and You Shall Receive May 28, 2008
Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Labsome.Tags: Docklands, documentary, Melbourne, oral history, question, Research, story
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What question is your research answering?
That’s a very good question. Thanks for asking.
My research seeks to answer the question of how personal stories can be recorded through oral history in video documentary form.
How effectively can a broadcast medium portray accurate reaccounts of history without having been there in the moment?
Can reproduced images and sounds contribute to the “authenticity” of oral history? And do stories gain credibility when they are retold by those who experienced them first-hand?
Specifically, my project will attempt to publically portray the personal anecdotes of those who lived and worked at Melbourne’s docks and on the boats that frequented them. Hence, it will also be necessary to answer the question of who these people were and how they spent their working lives.
Keep up the doodlin’, you’ll always have the doodlin’. I mean it’s a pipe-dream, but if you do have a go at it, and then you don’t make it, you can say ‘at least I tried’.
Hoevenaars, that picture is HUGE! It made me laugh. I hope that was your intention. I suspect it was; that it, your intention was to make ME laugh.
We should converse in person sometime soon.
Hey Jon,
Can you do me a favour and change the blogroll link through name to ‘www.greyleads.com’. ? That would be great. You could even put ‘Greyleads’ as a separate link if you wanted.
It’s a ‘polyblog’; Adam, Roger and myself writing on it. Plans to develop it much further to include other writers, and we’ll be working on design over the uni break.
Cheers my wigga.
Cheers!