After yesterday's battle with the gremlins, we changed our focus today, meeting with Mark Godber at Artsadmin (a short walk from Fenchurch Street so no tube or bus problems), coming back to Southend to carry on. It's a great help to get an external perspective on what you're doing, particularly for a funding strand like Unlimited, which is a bit of an unknown quantity.

While Stu has been working through his lists, I've been grouping and sorting the text and sound files into the relevant routes and combining them as movies. We've ended up using Quicktime Pro rather than more sophisticated (and expensive) film software as it's possible to use it to code subtitles in a pretty straightforward way (after a lot of initial trial and error). This makes it easy to get a consistent subtitling style, and adjust any errors in the text without having to recode the whole thing - a huge bonus when you've 65 sets of files to deal with and the hearing people start having discussions along the lines of "Actually, I think he said 'nymphs, not 'nudes'". The text files also translate into scalable graphics, taking up very little memory (around 4kb) allowing us to use better quality sound. For Signpost, they'll be a set size on the screen, but we'll add some transcript movies to the website later on.

Welcome to the first post in the Signpost Project blog. It's by no means the first thing to happen with the project. Damien and I have been devising a longer term strategy for our work since the AWSoM project in 2007 and this is just the next stage in a long process in which we are exploring the different, and indeed sometimes opposite, ways in which we experience the world. Our focus in concentrated mainly around sound and location, and how we interpret these things differently as individuals, which mirrors our greatly different backgrounds, life experiences and education.

To help and assist with our work we have been receiving mentoring from ArtsAdmin producer Mark Godber, talking with Jim Prevett at [space] and have also received support from Metal, Shape and Emergency Exit Arts.

Earlier in the year we put together a proposal for the next phase of work, 'Signpost', and applied to Arts Council England for a small grant, which we're pleased to announce has been approved. So we are now working on the project, with the aim of completing it for exhibition at the Village Green event run by Metal in Chalkwell Park, Southend, Essex on 25th September.

More information can be found on this strand of work by visiting the AWSoM, Vibe³, Vibe³C, Vibe³ Southend web pages.