In connection with the development of the new standard, we have had students checking up some published essays on film used as literature on the courses at the Department of Cinema Studies in Stockholm. References to the film texts in these cases were not always as exact as they should have been, nor problably would have been if the authors had known that their readers would have constant access to the discussed film material. In the course of our work, we have noticed that the new technique undoubtedly has contributed to a more precise study of cinema, and the process of referencing the main source of our studies, the film texts themselves, has gained in importance. We have also noted increased activity among our students in the seminars in which the essays are discussed. The essays are published in both the traditional form and in CD-ROM format.
Students have access to CD-ROMs in the library.
In the seminars the CD-ROM is projected on a screen and during the discussion of each essay, film clips can be shownat any time. You can go to specific frames or, for example, show the sequence frame by frame. Projection also makes navigation through the text very easy to handle. All this makes it very easy for students to follow and take part in the discussion. Another concern of our work has been in developing interactive lectures on CD-ROM, that can be used both in the traditional lecture situation for a large number of students, and by each student individually in, for example, the library.