Selection Criteria for Television Programmes

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Selection Criteria for Television Programmes

• Sue Malden
• Media Archive Management Consultant
• Kingston, Jamaica Nov 2003

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Uses of Archive Material

• Research
• specific Events/Individuals
• more general reflection of society, culture,
  history
• Reuse as extracts in programmes
• as seen in FIAT award nominations
• Repeat broadcasting on traditional analogue
  channels
• Reversion on new digital channels
• Resale to broadcasters/outlets

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Reasons for Selection Policy

• Value of Archive materials to
• the creator/owner
• the society as a whole
• Volumes of material being generated
• Costs of storage processing
• Costs of preservation/digitisation
• Range of different potential uses

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Requirements of the Policy

• Need to ensure that all aspects of value usage
  are represented
• Must be understood and endorsed by parent
  organisation
• Thoroughness / Robust
• Consistency - Over Time
• Withstand Challenge
• Cost / Benefit
• Represent cultural heritage
• Regular review of the policy

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• Need to ensure that all aspects of value usage
  are represented

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Scope of Material

• Transmitted
• Untransmitted
• more significant for actuality news operation
• Promotional Material
• Sample of complete days output
• More significant for a national archive
• Programme as broadcast
• A clean feed broadcaster
• Programme as received
• National Archive Legal requirements
• Master Access copies
• Film Negative Sound Master
• Submasters where possible
• Safety track
• Effects track

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The Criteria

• A Actuality of historical interest
• B Actuality as a record of place or object
• C Interviews of historic
• D Indications of opinion
• E Fiction/Entertainment of Artistic/ Cultural
• F Fiction/Entertainment of Social History -
  popular culture
• G Development of Television

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Technical Considerations

• clean feeds, m es etc. as well as broadcast
  version
• as seen by viewers
• master and access copies
• impact of format changes

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Conclusion

• Essential that responsibility for the Policy and
  its application is
• communicated
• understood
• endorsed
• reviewed
• by the parent organisation

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Scope of Material

• Transmitted
• Un-transmitted
• more significant for actuality news operation
• Promotional Material
• Sample of complete days output
• More significant for a national archive
• Programme as broadcast
• A clean feed broadcaster
• Programme as received
• National Archive Legal requirements
• Master Access copies
• Film Negative Sound Master
• Submasters where possible
• Safety track
• Effects track

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Considerations

• to be represented in the decision making process
• Production
• Broadcast
• Corporate
• Sales
• Legal
• Heritage
• Technical