Apr '02 30

colinandmatt.jpgColin and I are pleased to announce that all the footage from the eight locations which we’ve visited over the past year for the RNLI’s innovative Lifeboats.TV project have been imported ready for editing. Before the editing begins I’ve cut a movie with all the people we’ve interviewed, in the exact order they were interviewed. 180 people were interviewed, 20 hours of footage created.

We were sad to hear that the very last person to be interviewed (last in the below film) passed away suddenly and respect the families wishes that material recorded should still be used in Lifeboats.TV. Colin, myself and the team from Ultralab send our most sincere condolences to the families of the Tobermory lifeboat crew.

The following film will take a while to load, but should be worth the wait.

icon for podpress  Watch 180 people the movie - made by Matthew Eaves this film includes nearly everyone who played a part in the Lifeboats.TV project: Play Now | Play in Popup
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Jun '01 7

The Lifeboats.TV team rolled into Burnham-on-Crouch today to begin the film research for the RNLI’s Lifeboats.TV website.

Thanks to all the team from Burnham involved in the pilot filming.

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Team:
Matthew Eaves (Ultralab)
Colin Elsey (Ultralab)
George Variopoulos (Ultralab)

From the initial footage, George Variopoulos made this initial film (it will take a while to load, but is worth the wait):

icon for podpress  George's Action Film: Play Now | Play in Popup
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Jan '01 19

On 19 January 2001 the very creative SEEVEAZ Summer School researchers came together at Burnham-on-Crouch Lifeboat Station to assist with Ultralab’s joint project with the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) to come up with ideas how the lifeboat service could be made ‘cool’ in the eyes of young people.


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Ultralab used the research findings to embark on the ‘lifeboats.tv’ project in conjunction with the education department of the RNLI.

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The Summer School researchers came up with a variety of ideas which led to the launch of Lifeboats.TV, the biggest video based website on the Internet, and home of the ‘Virtual Lifeboat Station’. 467 movies were created and made available in various formats.

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Lifeboats.TV ran for three years and is now offline, research complete.

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Team:
Stephen Heppell (Ultralab)
Matthew Eaves (Ultralab)
James Vaughan (RNLI)
Anne Millman (RNLI)

The below films will take some time to load, please be patient:

icon for podpress  Watch the RNLI project movie, with early Matthew Eaves and Colin Elsey footage.: Play Now | Play in Popup
icon for podpress  Watch 180 people the movie - made by Matthew Eaves this film includes nearly everyone who was a part of the Lifeboats.TV project.: Play Now | Play in Popup
icon for podpress  Filmed and made in Burnham this film was created to initiate the project vision.: Play Now | Play in Popup
icon for podpress  Also by George, a dramatic cut using RNLI archive footage: Cut 21 Movie. It was made from a lot of archive training video footage, the objective to demonstrate to the RNLI that existing footage could be recycled.: Play Now | Play in Popup
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