These News items from 1970 have been recreated from original footage and recorded voice over of written scripts by former Television presenter Ray Dinneen (2020). Background music from the 1970s is also used. The re-read and recorded original scripts were prepared at the GLAMx Lab early 2020 and file was reassembled by UON students for Multi-platform Journalism (CMNS3333) course.
The footage was digitised by Phillip Lloyd (UON AV Digitisation Specialist) at the GLAMx Audio-visual Digitisation Lab, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle. Written Scripts digitised by dedicated volunteers at the Lab.
News items are from the NBN Television Archive at the University of Newcastle (Australia).
Courtesy NBN Television. Special thanks to Newcastle Regional Public Library and the University of Newcastle (Australia).
‘ORIGINAL NEWS REPORTS DIGITISED BY UNIVERSITY’ NBN Television, By Lauren Kempe April 2,2020
The project was coordinated at the Library’s GLAMx Lab and provided students with experience and practical skills in creating (or in this case re-creating) audio-visual content that involves multiple files to reconstruct a single audio-visual file i.e. News item.
The digitised archival sources that students used were purposely digitised at the GLAMx Lab from original sources, including:-
- Story vision (digitised film)
- Written Script (that was read in real time by news reader) CLICK HERE FOR SAMPLE OF SCRIPT
Other digital files used to recreate the News item include:-
- MP4 audio visual file of the story (voice over of script)
- A selection of music files that best suit story. Listen to a sample HERE ‘Background Music News 1970’ (Research to ensure 1970 music specific to the TV industry).
Former NBN Television presenter Ray Dinneen kindly offered to read and provide voice overs of 100+ written scripts from January 2020.
The digitisation and reconstruction of news stories is of immense value to the research community, namely that due to the production techniques of the era, no final version of the broadcasts exist; only the silent footage, the scripts and index cards.
This opportunity provided students with access to historic archival footage so they can better understand the changing contexts and technologies – and how those working in the media needed to adapt and keep pace with change.
Through the experience students gained an awareness of the existence of AV television archives and how potentially historic footage can be used in contemporary journalistic practice.
Originally the task started off as an ‘in Lab’ exercise during Semester 2, 2020, however in line with University of Newcastle’s COVID019 safety advice on March 23, we transferred the digital files electronically to students so they could recreate stories remotely.
Here are some samples of the reconstructed News items from January 1970
Courtesy – NBN Television Archive at the University of Newcastle (Australia).
Special Thanks to Phillip Lloyd (digitisation Specialist at GLAMx Lab), volunteers and contributors who prepared sources for this course, as well as the students and Ed Reddin (CMNS3333 Course co-ordinator) for supporting this project. Students have made a significant contribution in reconstructing these historic News items.
Your contribution is greatly appreciated.
Project co-ordinated by Dr Ann Hardy
GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab
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