inside installations — online course 'video registration of installations'

Video documentation of installations – Defining the purpose, budgets en scenarios Video documentation of an installation can be made for different purposes, such as:
—	Publication/education
—	Promotion
—	Documentation/research
—	Re-installation
When defining the purpose it is useful to think about the intended effects of the recording. For example, recordings for publications and education for a broader audience explicitly try to show the main characteristics of the installation in an attractive fashion. Videos for promotion of the work are used to present the installation to curators and other professionals with the aim to include the work in an exhibition or festival. For such kinds of presentation, images that raise curiosity and are meaningful are needed, next to proper editing. For documentation and research purposes, the whole atmosphere and experience needs to be captured so that the viewer experience is included. For the purpose of re-installation, it is essential to capture the exact order of actions as well as the positioning of the parts in relation to an overview of the installation. It cannot be denied that guidance for the video documentation is often tailored to the available budget categories:
—	Amateur or consumer budget
—	Semi-professional or ‘prosumer’ budget
—	Professional budget
These budget categories represent an increasing level of available resources, and even more so of funding, technical skills and background. With each jump to a higher budget category, the equipment will be more expensive and of a higher quality. The results will reflect this high level and the skills needed for the documentation will be more demanding. All scenarios have their own requirements for the equipment and process of recording, editing and authoring. Recording thus can be seen as collecting moving images in order to capture the installation; editing as placing them in a certain order and cutting out irrelevant parts; authoring as the process of ordering the edited images on the carrier, in a certain order and structure. From our evaluation of the literature search and case studies analysis we strongly recommend to answer the following questions before starting a recording as they all have an impact on the recording process:
—	What is the intended storage of the video?
—	Who owns the final product?
—	What kind of users will access the finished product?
—	How will the resources be viewed or delivered?
—	How will it be accessed and preserved?
For more details on defining purpose, budget and scenarios look to module 2 Documenting (video) installations on video under the section Pre-production. Furthermore, Caroline Rye has carried out interesting research into the combination of multiple sources that present art works on DVD because it allows showing more than one shot at the same time. See the literature list for details on her publications.