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Lionel T. Dean: I think that you also have pressures from institutions because<br />

are resource-hungry in terms of workshops.<br />

Keith Brown: Do you think it could also be liberating maybe for people that<br />

don't have those sorts of craft skills? I'm dyslexic I can't spell my name<br />

longhand but I appear in academic journals because I've got [Microsoft] Word.<br />

It's not that I don't have ideas I have got something to say but I just didn't have<br />

the skills to do it until the word processor came along. I'm wondering if that<br />

might also apply to these new technologies and making, or producing? I happen<br />

to have a traditional background I happen to have been making sculpture for<br />

forty years so it is difficult for me to answer that question as a maker because<br />

I've got that. I'm pretty sure that this must be an absolutely liberating<br />

technology to enable people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't be able to.<br />

Have you any thoughts on that at all?<br />

Lionel T. Dean: All of us have come to this from starting off with a grounding<br />

in traditional skills and moved into the digital side. I think we'll only know in<br />

the future when people have maybe just purely gone digital.<br />

Chris Vanstone: I think just in terms of home movie making just making<br />

software that is easier to use as well as the cost of the technology dropping<br />

enables people to make films that wouldn't have been able to make films before.<br />

I think a lot of the roots of the skills we've picked up are because of using<br />

consumer software and moving on through that rather than any real training in<br />

it.<br />

Julian Malins: Now you've got people who are just doing it themselves: DIY -<br />

so in the future the equivalent of that then would be people making everything<br />

themselves you'll be able to mock up your own crockery and furniture and into a<br />

microwave-like 3D printer. It would be an interesting world.<br />

Chris Vanstone: I don't think the fact that people are making their home<br />

videos means that they have stopped watching feature films I think it means<br />

they probably watch them more intently.<br />

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