Adventure Pictures (Sally Potter's production company) is currently in the process of setting up The SP-ARK Project , a web-based open source educational project based on Sally Potter’s multi-media archive.
OVERVIEW
The SP-ARK project is an online educational resource based on Sally Potter’s working archive. This extensive, unpublished archive relates to all aspects of Potter's work as a writer, director, choreographer and composer. Its unique content ranges from annotated scripts, screen tests and production diaries to personal notes, schedules and behind-the-scenes photographs.
SAMPLE SUITCASE OF UNSEEN MATERIAL
SP-ARK will allow online access to this material for the first time, in an entirely original way.
SP-ARK will pioneer a new way of using the internet for education, by harnessing the latest technology and young people’s preferences about how to access and share information. In collaboration with universities and colleges throughout the UK and the US, SP-ARK will use these new media technologies to create an online resource that offers its users the opportunity not only to study its contents in depth and in detail, but also to share their thoughts and research with other users.
SP-ARK aims to enable film and cultural studies students at all levels to better understand the process of film-making. It intends to promote education and learning in a new way by making it exciting, fresh and relevant to a generation of students for whom the internet rather than the printed word is the prime source of information and learning.
GOLDSMITHS STUDENTS IN A USABILITY EXERCISE, FEB 07
SP-ARK will become a prototype for a unique form of internet-based education, tailored to the radically new learning preferences of students everywhere, which can be used as a model for teaching resources in all disciplines and at every level.
