Heritage Recording Services UK

• How to photograph local history in your area.  A beginner's guide to digital record photography.

         How to use a camera, planning a photo survey, the importance of the presepctive viewpoint,

         the right light, scale, correcting the image, notes and numbers etc. Storing the images.

• How to record local memories, stories and reminiscences - oral history for beginners.

        Planning a project, equipment, research, the question sheet, how to ask questions, clearance notes, using oral history, editing and storage.

• How to do a Heritage Audit. (Something every local history, civic & heritage group should be doing!)

         Opening your eyes to what's there & important, using archives and maps, conducting the survey,   producing the report and how it can be used.

• How to interpret, handle, and understand old photographs.

Simple identification of images, analysing what they contain, making an information grid, creating a record, storing the photographs etc. Uploading to You Tube or Flickr - the pros and cons.

• How to do a heritage or local history trail.

Using information such as Heritage Audit material, maps, oral history, digital photography to produce a trail or walk.   

• How to record family history memories.

Recording family history memories is often personal and private and is done not just family history but also as a family legacy. The approach taught in this workshop implies sensitivity, empathy and patience.

• How to record,photograph and video community histories.

This workshop examines how photography, audio and video recording can create social well-being and cohesion and lasting resource for use in education.

• Talking Proper. 

How to record local dialects and language.  Recording new words and understanding their meanings.

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