The SCAPE Trust has a long history of using film to record, interoperate and communicate many of its projects during the last 17 years. In 2012, SCAPE worked with citizen scientists and local community volunteers on the Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project (SCHARP), a four-year project designed to record and interpret archaeological sites around Scotland’s dynamic coastline. Film was specifically built into the project to highlight each of the unique ShoreDIG’s, independent community based projects that were completed alongside the larger coastal recording element of the project. A set of three complimentary films was also produced as part of its evaluation to tell the story of SCHARP and the people behind it. A wide variety of film techniques were utilised ranging from creating music videos, short documentaries, re-worked archive footage and interviews. This paper will discuss how the films were envisioned, produced and how challenges were overcome. It will highlight the key role of the local community, who provided content, took acting roles and sourced materials for several of the films. The talk will conclude with a showing of one of the short films, ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’. This stars many members of SWACS, a local community group in Fife, and details the history of antiquarian recording at the Wemyss Caves. It is part of a wider digital recording project combining film, 3D models, and RTI recording which reinforces a long tradition of research at an asset which is now in danger of being lost. (Tanya Kinston, Freke Venture)
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