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Welcome to the collaborative website for Griffith in Context: A Multimedia Exploration of "The Birth of a Nation". This site is used by the primary designers of Griffith in Context to organize production efforts.
The overarching goal of our project is to help students in film studies, American history, and cultural studies understand the important and incendiary nature of "The Birth of a Nation" by situating it in its cultural context. Leveraging the capabilities of a multimedia format, Griffith in Context aims to forge points of contact between the artifact and its cultural associations, offering its audience the ability to move directly from film clips into a historical and analytical framework that makes their impact more tangible.
The project promises to spur a dynamic and broad-ranging intellectual exchange in which we hope you will participate. One of the ways in which you can do this is through this collaborative web space, which utilizes a new technology created by Georgia Tech colleague Mark Guzdial. As a visitor, you can not only keep up to date with our project designs and discussions, but also directly add feedback and annotations to the website itself.
Production year two::
Collaborative content areas:
- Clip analyses: We have chosen nine representative clips from the film to view and analyze in the CD-ROM. Follow this branch to see and contribute to the issues of film, history, and culture that each the nine clips might be used to foreground.
- SVO Collaboration Pages
- SVO Docs
- Theme cards
- Quote cards
- Timeline
- Intertitles for eventual integration
- Ideas for the Editing Engine
- Document Server
- Miscellaneous Content Notes
- Interface Screenshots
Organizational issues:
- Publicity plans and contact information
- Next meeting's agenda
- Confirmation and responses
- Turner Screening
- Design Group Contact Info
- Board Members Email Addresses
- Ideas to follow up in the search for a historian
- Calendar of Milestones
- Possible Candidates for Scholarly Voice-overs
- Glossary of Terms for GIC Developers
Technical issues:
- Patrick's Progress, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lingo
- Font document
- Interface development
- Instructional Overlays
- C script created by Rob and Robin
- DVD Development
- Interface development
Research and Documents:
- Key to Document Codes
- Inter-Library Loan Follow-up
- Atlanta History Center
- Library of Congress
- Images from Secondary Sources
- Inter-Library Loan Follow-up
Contributor Notes
- Public Website for Griffith in Context
- Recent Changes (Sort of a chronologically-sorted Table of Contents)