1. KONGO 2010
EUScreen Conference - Rome, October 8 2010 – Ph. Van Meerbeeck

2. Unlocking VRT archives
DAR
DIVA
KONGO 2010
Overview

3. DAR
! Digital ARchive
! 2005 – 2010
! 1-inch tapes
! 50.000+ => 23.093 tapes selected
! 16.000 hours digitized + primary annotation
! Contest: winner got 1 historic 1’ tape
! VRT ‘classics’ from 1985 - 1995

4. VRT Classics 1985 - 1995

5. DIVA
! Digital VRT Archive
! 2009-2012
! 6500h film
! 18.000h audio
! 3 track selection:
– Endangered material: vinegar, decay: DAT, CD
– All VRT TV news digital from 1953 -> today
– Commemorative projects

6. Bob Scholte (1954)

7. COMMEMORATIVE PROJECTS
! EXPO 2008
– 50 years World Fair Brussels (1958)
! CONGO 2010
– 50 years Congo Independance (1960)
! Zwart Noch Wit 2014-18
– 100 years of WW I

8. CONGO 2010
! Independence Belgian CONGO: June 30, 1960
! Crossmedia project:
– Radio
– Tv
– Web
– Line extensions: dvd, print
! Jan - June 30, 2010: 6 month footprint

9. INPUT VRT Archive
! 200 h Congo film (1955 -1965)
! 200 h Congo audio (1930 -1965)
! Researched, selected, restored, digitised, annotated
! Digital accessible in ARDOME

10. OUTPUT VRT a.o.
! CONGO Journals: inhouse
– 3 x 7 x 2,5’ miniseries in VRT News 19h00
– http://www.deredactie.be/permalink/1.815493
! BONJOUR CONGO: inhouse
– 7 x 52’ doc series (hosted)
– 20h45 on CANVAS + location based game
– http://congo.canvas.be/programma/programma
! KONGO: commissioned coproduction
– 3 x 52’ doc series (archive based)
– Coproduced VRT, RTBF + private companies
– 1 x 70’ feature doc, coproducd RTBF-Arte
– Total budget: € 1,3Mio

11. CREATIVE REUSE
! KONGO: archive based doc series (3 x 52’)
– Part 1: 1560 - 1908 (King Leopold’s Colony)
– Part 2: 1908 - 1960 (Belgian Colony)
– Part 3: 1960 - 2005 (Independence etc.)
! Unlocking & valorising Congo a/v archive from
– AFRICA MUSEUM
– CINEMATEK
– KADOC
– VRT
– RTBF
– Private
! A/v archive ante 1900?

12. ANIMATE !
! Create what isn’t…
! Archive Based Animation
! Digital graphic 2D TOONBOOM
! Total output: 38’ (series) + 5’ (feature): 43’
! 6 months + 4 weeks development
! Budget: €280K -> € 7000/minute (!)
! Provide narrative links, POV
! Authenticity vs. Avatar
! Let’s have a look…