Outputs (25)

Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen (2022)
Journal Article

This article outlines the development of a feature-length screenplay adaptation of Angela Carter’s short story “Flesh and the Mirror,” situating it within a critical discussion of her metaleptic narrative strategies and the challenges of translating... Read More about Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen.

Inside Cinema Shorts: 80. Cary Grant (2021)
Digital Artefact

How a working class boy from Bristol became one of the brightest stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, the height of silver-screen sophistication in films ranging from His Girl Friday and An Affair to Remember, to Bringing Up Baby and North By Northw... Read More about Inside Cinema Shorts: 80. Cary Grant.

The transmission of divine light (2021)
Book Chapter

Charlotte Crofts writes about her memories of cinema-going growing up in Bristol and beyond.

Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks (2018)
Journal Article

This article outlines current publishing practices in the field of academic filmmaking through a detailed discussion of the development of Screenworks, a peer-reviewed online publication of practice research in screen media. The imperative for academ... Read More about Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks.

Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol (2017)
Physical Artefact

The Looking For Archie Walking Tour of Cary Grant's Bristol was first developed in 2017 as part of the Being Human Festival . Cary Grant was born as Archibald Leach in Bristol in 1904, but many Bristolians are unaware that he grew up here and continu... Read More about Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol.

The Cinemapping App (prototype) (2012)
Physical Artefact

The Cinemapping App maps Bristol's screen heritage so you can experience local cinema history in the places where it actually happened, from Cary Grant's memories of the Clare St Picture House to the unsolved murder of Odeon manager Robert Parrington... Read More about The Cinemapping App (prototype).

City strata (2012)
Other

‘City Strata’ is a new mobile authoring platform which enables developers to create different heritage ‘layers’ or ways of experiencing the city, that their users can then enhance by uploading their own content. Behind the scenes, the platform innov... Read More about City strata.

Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode" (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The presentation will focus on the importance of designing for the location whilst acknowledging that not all users will choose / be able to physically be there. How can we design both for both here and there? What is the added value of being there... Read More about Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode".

Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With the affordances of locative media, the heritage industry is rapidly embracing the postdigital era, with iPhone Applications for English Heritage, the National Trust and UNESCO World Heritage sites. At the same time, nostalgia for the past (and... Read More about Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage.

The curzon memories app (2012)
Physical Artefact

The project piloted locative technologies to develop a smartphone application that provides a digital tour of the interior and exterior of the Curzon Community Cinema in Clevedon using GPS and QR Codes respectively to trigger dramatisations and oral... Read More about The curzon memories app.

Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

i-docs2012 Abstract
Charlotte Crofts

Title: ‘Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer’

The affordances of mobile technologies enable the i-doc experience to occur in dialogue between... Read More about Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer.

Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012 (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

**this poster won the poster prize at MeCCS@ 2012**

Original MeCCSA Abstract for a Poster and Demo:

I would like to present a poster and a demo of my Curzon Memories App, a practice-research project that uses mobile technologies and locative me... Read More about Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012.

Presentation on Curzon Memories App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation was jointly presented with Cathy Poole, Education Office at the Curzon Cinema Clevedon, exploring how the affordances of mobile media can be used to enhance learning and teaching about cinema history, cinema-going and cinema technol... Read More about Presentation on Curzon Memories App.

The Curzon Memories App: Shifting practices, from filmmaking to experience design (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited to lecture to MA students about the development of my practice from filmmaking to experience design, specifically reflecting on the impact of digital media on my practice research trajectory.

Spatialising the Archive: Dramatisation, oral history and locative heritage in the Curzon Memories App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Spatialising the archive: Dramatisation, oral history and locative heritage in the Curzon Memories App at IMTAL International Museum and Theatre Alliance Conference, Bristol, October (invited).

Projection hero installation (2011)
Physical Artefact

The Projection Hero installation operates as part of the Curzon Memories App or a stand alone exhibit. It comprises of a rabbit hutch-sized miniature cinema, with velvet and gold brocade curtains and hand-carved seats which can be operated via your... Read More about Projection hero installation.

Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App (2011)
Book Chapter

This paper presents a practice research project based at The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK. Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon’s... Read More about Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App.

Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a practice-based research project based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, home of the Curzon Collection, an archive of cinema projectors donated by the Projected Picture Trust. The original cinema was built in 1912 and is... Read More about Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App.

Screen heritage, pervasive media practice and research: or, How does the Curzon Memories App create impact, public engagement and knowledge exchange? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reflecting on how to make the route map of research for the Curzon Locative Media Project explicit in the lead up to REF 2014 in relation to the current shift towards "Impact", public engagement and KE both within UWE and the Research Council agenda.

Adding it up and making it count… or how to write a research “route map” for REF 2014 (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This seminar will focus on the documentation and dissemination of creative arts research and knowledge exchange activities.

Initial scoping work by CDD Research Associate, Anna Farthing, has revealed that:
a) Some of the CDD schools’ existing ac... Read More about Adding it up and making it count… or how to write a research “route map” for REF 2014.