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	CD Rom - Celebration Rural Life
	During 1998 the Northern PCAP Area Management Committee supported the development of a Multi Media package aimed at attracting teaching and other personnel to rural and remote areas and encouraging them to stay. The CD based on the towns of Croydon and Cooktown looks at the two communities through the eyes of community members. The CD producers Jerry and Melissa Jeffress, who reside on a solar powered property on the outskirts of Herberton, used community members to portray the lifestyles and facilities of the two centres with the aim of presenting the community in a positive light with focus on those things that bring the community together. A secondary objective of this project was to demonstrate that within rural and remote communities there could be expertise capable of producing similar CD Rom's to promote their area at the cost of a good second hand ute. Further information on this project can be obtained by emailling northernpcap@iig.com.au.
	At a workshop held to review the processes used in producing the CD workshop participants identified the following points to support production at a local level.
	CD Development at a Local level Time taken from start to supply of product: Six months - 2 people working half time. Would be quicker once use of equipment was learnt. Possibly two to three months after planning stage.
	Training how difficult? The CD was designed as a web page using html language. As a web page it can be used across all machines. All that is needed is a Web Browser with this design to access the CD. For our CD it is necessary to have MS IE4x.1.
	Outline of a CD 640 mb can be held on a CD. The Celebration Rural Life CD has about 420mb data containing images, call up buttons, slides, text and video. If a CD has slides, video and text it is usual that the video and slides are looked at first. These tend to hold people's interest.
	Navigation Time spent on planning and navigational systems. Important questions: What goes on a page, How to structure the page Links To answer these questions think of Who is the audience and the purpose and message of the CD. SET NAVIGATION AND STAY WITH IT. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO CHANGE IT EFFECTIVELY. Planning stages write out thoughts on paper. Look at the information held. On our CD the navigation was broken into the two towns, then people, places, services, etc. Then broken into sub categories, themes etc. Break down as far as possible. Keep thinking of the links. Make the pages first - take videos, slides and text. Then group the pages and go on as above.
	Equipment needed A computer with as much hard disk space as you can afford. Lots and lots of disk space and a high speed drive. A high speed SCSI card. The space is needed for the CD Burner, to make it work error free and to allow video work when editing. Software - spend as little as possible. Digital Video Camera - advantage is its size. Very compact and easy to handle. No necessity for a still camera if you use a DV Camera. To do recording sound only still use the DV camera but don't use the video clips. Software so that the movie images can be downloaded onto the computer. CD Burner. A good Sound Card. A Set of good speakers and a good microphone. Total hardware minimum $10,000 maximum $15,000
	Planning When planning the project do not attempt to do it alone. Get photographers, sound enthusiasts, video camera users etc. to help. Let each person who is competent in one area handle that area. By using local poets and musicians there is no problem with copyright. Remember when making the video ten hours of taping will take ten hours of viewing for editing. Keep it visually interesting. Keep it simple and watchable.
	Issue of Copyright As mentioned previously use locally produced music etc and copyright won't be an issue. If filming students at school use Education Queensland Guidelines.
	Burning the CD CD Burner can be installed on the PC. They are a useful tool for archiving files. If you are only going to burn less than 15 do it on your own machine. Over 20 get someone else to burn them. More volume the cheaper. More than 1000 a master is made and the CD's are actually pressed not burnt. Schools have presented their year books on CD's.
	Further information on this project can be obtained by email northernpcap@iig.com.au.

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