Cinehacking Cape Town - Embracing Informality in Pursuit of High Quality Media

David Green; Guy Peter Schofield; Gary Pritchard; Patrick Olivier; Peter C. Wright

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025481

Cinehacking Cape Town - Embracing Informality in Pursuit of High Quality Media

David Green, Guy Peter Schofield, Gary Pritchard, Patrick Olivier, Peter C. Wright

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

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Abstract

Although many common tools of media making such as video cameras have become more accessible in recent years, many remain inaccessible. Cinematography, lighting and sound-recording equipment for example can be prohibitively expensive to obtain, complex to configure, and/or require specialist knowledge to operate effectively. These barriers can prevent non-professionals who want to produce highquality media from being able to. Cinehack is an ongoing project to research ways to overcome these barriers. In this paper, we specifically report on Cinehack: Cape Town, a participatory media making project. By co-producing hip hop videos within a community for whom media making is often a ‘means-to-an-end’, we were able gain insights into the kinds of support needed to enable high quality media making by non-professionals. Specifically, we highlight ways to meet users’ needs by embracing informal codes of practice via experimental making and peer-support. AUTHOR KEYWORDS Making; Media; DIY; Africa; Hacking; Hip-Hop

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM
Pages	4753-4764
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4655-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025481
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2017
Event	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, Denver, United States Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017 http://chi2017.acm.org/

Publication series

Name	CHI : Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems
ISSN (Print)	1062-9432

Conference

Conference	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	ACM CHI
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	6/05/17 → 11/05/17
Internet address	http://chi2017.acm.org/

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Green, D, Schofield, GP, Pritchard, G, Olivier, P & Wright, PC 2017, Cinehacking Cape Town - Embracing Informality in Pursuit of High Quality Media. in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI : Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, ACM, pp. 4753-4764, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, United States, 6/05/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025481

Cinehacking Cape Town - Embracing Informality in Pursuit of High Quality Media. / Green, David; Schofield, Guy Peter; Pritchard, Gary et al.
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017. p. 4753-4764 (CHI : Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems).

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