Re-creating the artefact: producing a living digital archive for the VCA film school.

Abstract

This practice-led creative research project tells the story of how the author went about producing a digital archive platform, to provide access to a large-scale and growing collection of student short films, belonging to the significant and historic VCA Film and Television department, situated within the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, Australia. This dissertation is concerned with showing how the author as a professional staff member and later, an academic for the Film Department, focused on her practice of film producing using practice led, action research and reflexive inquiry to create a digital archive project. The topic of this thesis sits within the burgeoni..