From my original proposal I had said:

I would research and explore how industrial resistance is represented.
Within that role of culture, women, is creativity a solitary process?
Additionally - What is history and what is memory?

Site of production:
47 & its relevance today. With a collective or more traditional

New media
Ability to research some information online
How is New Media being used and not being used?
How can it and has it helped and hindered?
Does it democratise through its potential or is that on a level playing field?
Do interviews at a more costly method - Transcribe.
Begin to share information on 47 Facebook, Rooftop Collective, At events, With people

Research - What Am I researching the method I am using? Film and photography and way I am using it? And or the content of the practical project which is a method of looking, examining and considering this work.
Method - film - Audio Visual, distribution key issue and personal challenge.
Why Film? Will new media allow for wider audiences? E.gs of happening but also limited, e.g.
Within Classes - Editing & Montage Plus
What audience and how will an audience be engaged?

Previous proposal suggested:
public and content analysis, social institution, media fx knowlege = experimental?
All four combined time consuming but are in some ways in process with this project.
Previous opinions, content of past archives and mainstream knowledge, fx - ? If I tell you something new or ask you a question how does that develop or engage you?

What - Representing Resistance: Performing Resistance (second part added via DR)
Industrial - This has now changed and developed to wider to encompass political. Why, not just industrial struggles, industrial struggles come from political choices and ideas.

Who I want to involve?
Women - Female co-director/producer
Interviewees: Cathy, Karen, Tina, Felecity (plus Tony A & Harry S)

Who has done this type of work before and currently:

• Cinema action? woman who made work beaver?
  
• Black filmakers collective - John A - also did recent work on memory but also made key work Handsworth songs.
• Past womens cultural resistance - do I need to identify this. Woolfe, Plath, Kollanti? Dialectical approach to ideas - economic and feelings (proposal pg 7)
  

Interview them or find secondary data on these?

REAL WORLD CONTEXT Wider political:
My involvements BECTU, UNITe, NSSN, student... influencing factors to what information I hold and have access to but also

SELF dircted learning:
Requested and attended modules - skills and theory
DSA - Bad to work alone and be a reading based MA, learning about self
Learning through use of blogs, read back, hold info, share possibility,
Meetings - James and V
Tutorials

I learn by doing so what have I learnt so far:
To ask,
To explore
To be open
To use you words that now don't just hurt me mentally they have a physical pain.. and rsi creeps back onto the platform and effects centre stage.

Am I researching the project or the methods and theories around tghe product?

Dys - Needs assessment tomorrow

Ahhh and I haven't thought about it. What do I need? What would make a difference? Don't know, do know..

This was interesting though - Management of dyslexia

"Especially for undergraduates, some consideration of what 'reading' is and what it is for can be useful. There are techniques (reading the first sentence [and/or last] of each paragraph in a chapter, for example) which can give an overview of content. This can be sufficient for some purposes. Since stress and anxiety are contributors to a dyslexic's weaknesses in absorbing information, removing these can assist in improving understanding. When a dyslexic knows that not every reading experience must be onerous, it greatly helps their mental approach to the task.

e best approaches acknowledge that the objective in helping to improve a dyslexic's 'reading' is not to 'read-like-a-non-dyslexic-does', but to find a way of extracting information from text that works efficiently for someone who processes such information differently from the majority."

And then some of the crappy news: Students on the breadline - waiting for DSA

1. Proofing, planning, how to read when I forget things in seconds..
2. Scanning
3. Organisational skills
4. Software and person to person instruction on software
5. Hardware?
6. Print and photocopy

Still taking photos...

For the symposium I mainly prepared what was my project, finally, and where I was at. I had a few interviews I intended to show little parts of, so we could hear together the stories. The memories, history, in detail that was beginning to piece together.

So here is a video, or powerpoint, of some of the photos I took. Probably importantly there is so much skyline. Looking at the stars, the breadth of what the 47 were struggling for and gained, things and thoughts that had not even begun in so many other places. And of one or two women, one who is working with me and another who maybe would like to, but is really important to have in the work. Originally she didn't want to be interviewed but on the last day of the shoot she agreed, she glowed and engaged so well. It was quite moving. She worried her memory would let her down, and she didn't speak like the other political people. That's not the style I wanted, not the only style. Women, I think speak differently and I like that and want that. Politics is ours, this world, the everyday, the everything is ours. We could and should talk of it however we wish. My challenge was how to make the invisible visible but in the process and chats with her.. she grew to feel more confident and will be within this.

I spoke for a few seconds to Daniel R after his session on power, all the way through I wanted to through something like a spoilt brat. Do you think we are thick? Don't you think we understand power operates beyond the obvious? And are Fouc and Choms the only ones? Marxism and dialectics is within this.. is within the relationship of structures power, or where the powers are but some of us are less conscious or confident of our powers and abilities.

He made it seem there was a choice of only seeing the state and government or seeing power in how it manifests itself everyday. It is both. It is both.

I realised lots of others got into his session and M was understated in her questions though they were sharp and unearthing, I think he didn't even realise this. Never underestimate M, she is a layered person with so much more than many people realise.

But I caught D on the way out, or so I thought, out of the room. And said I would like to talk to him, he suggested going to his room but that wasn't possible. He then asked what I was doing, I said REPRESENTING RESISTANCE, he said F would have said PERFORMING RESISTANCE. Not sure I agree that one stands against the other but together, together as a participant in this and more, it is both. And if nothing else but a need for me to reflect on my shameless anger.. I have that now. 4 words that say so much more. By attempting to represent, I perform and I am with all the conversations that have gone on..

Sympose...looking in and out

so if I just write, right now?

And what happens? No plan, no draft. Just me, and you here. The words come up and out and slither across the page. What do I want to say right now? About today, perhaps?

We had presentations to update on our projects and it was good and hard to hear others. Good, because of intimacy, the humour, the variety and hard, because everyone sounds so much more like the can contextualise their work in this setting far more than me. I don't have your words, and you don't have mine.

I got grumpy, stroppy perhaps as I got questioned about my use of words and style in a draft one page about the project. Cheeky I thought, you don't know me but are desperate to say something? It clearly showed an ideological viewpoint that there was objectivity if you write with a more 'passive tone'. Passive aggressive rule the world... or have done!

Ok learning - no need to get grumpy as I will get accused of being the aggressive one. The question could have been returned back, do you think there is such a thing as objective? Do I have to tame every word? Do I extract every bit of life from me to fit you and your world? Perhaps I would live more comfortably if I did, perhaps...

Representing Resistance is not about pretending. Its about shining a light on areas of our life's hidden, distorted and continually suppressed. I want the light too, I need that light, the dark, brutal world that I feel and see too often, is only part of it, part of the possibility of what we are or could be. Don't make me pretend like you.

Objective & The standard vs the RMT

Housing and 47

Housing was important then as it is now. Affordable and the mainly unaffordable. Looking for examples of what was built in the 1980's but the 83-87 council and I cant find a list - Apparently Croxteth was a key area. Also the 'pigeries'? Just spoke to Harry S and he said if you look at the new builds and see Chimneys, the ones with chimneys are ours!

In SEP - Found out from Felecity, another of the 47, that the reason the houses were built with chimeys is due to the Miners Strike that was going on at the time. Supporting the use of that fuel and the workers.