[okfn-coord] funding gang: open shakespeare/open performance

Thu Jul 2 10:17:45 UTC 2009

Hi Becky and all,

Sorry for the slow response.

I think your second point is key. We need to sort through all your points
but the technical feasibility is important. Does anyone have suggestions
about who best to speak to? Is it you Rufus?

regards
Paula

2009/6/25 Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com>

> Paula
>
> I absolutely love this idea.
>
> What do you think it needs before we try and take it to the Cultural
> Olympiad folks:
>
> -more Board support?
> -an idea of the technical work needed (if any) to make the Open
> Shakespeare DB perform the way we want it for LetsPerform.com?
> -a better name?
> -a video of some sample scenes?
>
> Let me know - I'm very willing to pitch in on this one, if that's helpful.
>
> Bests
>
> Becky
>
> 2009/6/24 paula le dieu <paula at ledieu.org>:
> > Hi Funding Gang,
> >
> > I am very keen to pursue an idea I was kicking around a few months ago -
> > which I am just calling Open Performance for the moment.
> >
> > Just a reminder of the idea (this is rough and nasty and very prosaic but
> > hopefully you get the idea):
> >
> > All the world's a stage,
> > And all the men and women merely players
> >
> > As part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad program, Shakespeare has been given
> > major project status -
> >
> http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/cultural-olympiad/projects/world-shakespeare-festival.php
> >
> > Strikingly absent from the project are any opportunities for the public
> to
> > give their own voice to Shakespeare's work. Open Performance would
> therefore
> > be the public layer of the project.
> >
> > The public would come to OpenShakespeare.org/LetsPerform (or something
> > hopefully considerably less naff) and be presented with a very simply
> > interface that lets them enter either a preferred scene or to enter
> > attributes such as how many actors they have available, gender of actors
> > (including don't care!) and the type of scene they are interested in
> > (fight/love/political etc) and we would spit out suggested scenes for
> them.
> > They would then be encouraged to take the scene and go and perform it and
> > capture it on video. They would then upload the video to a collection
> site
> > where they can tag it up with all sorts of attributes. Over time we would
> be
> > able to do things like link together scenes to have entire plays in a
> > patchwork of British performers. But ultimately the idea is to create a
> > library of Open Shakespeare performance.
> >
> > OK that is the kernal of the idea - very simple in concept a bit trickier
> in
> > realisation but all doable I think. I have had no contact with the
> Cultural
> > Olympiad folks as yet so this may not come to anything but I figure it is
> > worth a try.
> >
> > Obviously lots of details to be worked out but wanted to share this with
> you
> > before I start talking about it in wider circles. Please let me know what
> > you think. I have posted to the OpenShakespeare wiki some feature ideas
> > around text segmentation based on scene and scene attributes like number
> of
> > characters etc.
> >
> > Regards
> > Paula
> >
> > ps. haven't put this on discuss for the moment but only because I am
> > slightly concerned about it getting to the cultural olympiad folks before
> it
> > feels coherent.
> >
> >
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