Internet2/Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Sponsored:
Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group

Performance Capture Standards Subgroup

Charge

The Performance Capture Standards Subgroup will research tape formats, camera, lighting, and other production technologies and develop a set of recommendations and best practices for capturing a live performance event.

Considerations

• Mobility of recording team (e.g. dedicated stage vs. ethnographic field work setup vs. multi-site performance)
• Price and Technical constraints (expertise of people involved, equipment budget, etc.)
• Degree of privacy of event/intended audience (e.g. intended for world-wide distribution, for limited distribution as in to a class, for private and/or archival purposes only)
• Allowable Intrusiveness of Capture (e.g. recording a sports game—no interfering with the ‘performers' allowed or desirable—vs. creating a ‘making-of' documentary—possible to do retakes, scenes performed specifically for the recording, etc.)
• As a corollary, type of capture: real time/one take recording vs. edited final document

Best Practices

• What sort of releases to request from those involved in the performance (for a spectrum of rights including reformatting and/or re-mastering for preservation, who may access when, re-broadcasting, re-packaging, and rights to make other changes such as noise removal, colorization, color-correcting, sharpness increasing, etc.)