Overview of 2008, (our year 11)
This year we helped 850 young people and 300 adults make films, we ran 65 adult training courses and screened 180 films to an audience of 2800 at LIAF. However we have seen our activities reduced as funding for adult learning has fallen, although we invested heavily in subsidising this area we have stopped offering free courses to adults.
Main activities
Headline figures
Other projects
Details
Media Box
Funded by First Light and it's partners with a budget of £80,000. We engaged 60 people aged 16-19 and offered short taster film production, from this group we took 15 young people onto master class stage and helped them with a medium length production and finally offered 8 individual film bursaries. At each stage we based the next step on discussions with young people. We had 65% BME, 65% female and 12% disability. The project helped us understand how to work with a wide range of interest and aspirations and how to help and support these young people to reach their goals. See films
"V"
This was a two-year youth led project working with 80 volunteers aged 19-25, it had a budget of £89,000. We wanted to target BME groups and people who do not usually volunteer. In the end we had 118 participants and 72% were from BME groups. 82% came from disadvantaged areas, 60% were female and 15% had a disability. The project was based on running a media based event, (film competition, TV broadcast, live event) that was designed and run by the group, the young people then recruited more young people and helped with their training.
BBC Children in Need
This project is aimed at working with special schools. We worked with a class at a time and visited on average for 8 days. The young people made their own stories, created the artwork, animated their characters and recorded their sound
1st Light studio Award
We worked with four primary schools to make four short animated films
based on fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm, German folklorists
from the 19th Century. The schools were Clapham Manor, Mowlem, Rockmount and St Johns Roman Catholic School. The ideas for the films came out of workshops we held with the children. Prior to the workshops the teachers had worked on fairy tales and the process of animation. During the workshops the children were shown work by other young people and had an inspiration session to help them come up with unique and personal stories, each one then created their own storyboard. The class then voted for the favourite and then there was a session where the class brain stormed to improve and add to the chosen story. See films
Adult evening courses
Although the funding has been reducing we managed to run courses for over 300 adults in over 65 courses ranging from professional editing to beginners introduction to video, the majority of these were run in our centre but we also ran courses for other people. We had a retention rate of 85% and a customer satisfaction rate of 90%.
The London International Animation Festival LIAF
This festival goes from strength to strength, with over 2200 entries and a screening program ofover 180 films this makes it the largest screening of independent animation in the UK.
Vocational Training
We ran a 15-week video training course funded by the LDA.The project was to help people into work in this sector. We worked with 20 filmmakers and 90% have gone onto employment or additional training.
Action Figures
A year-long project that took place from October 2007
- October 2008. It was managed by the Royal Borough of Kensington, Chelsea Arts
Service and facilitated by the Film and Video Workshop. The project aimed to get local young people excited by the Olympic and
Paralympic Games and inspired to get involved in arts and leisure activities
across the borough. The project commenced with a series of 'Drawn to Sports' sketching tours
to sports venues in the borough. The drawings were then scanned and passed to
an animator and software programmer to be turned into animated models which
formed part of a spectacular interactive art installation at Kensington Town
Hall on September 17th 2008 to mark the handover of the torch from Beijing
Paralympics to London and the start of the Cultural Olympiad. The Drawings were
projected several meters high onto the Town Hall and surrounding buildings and
were able to sprint, pole vault, and swim across the sides of the buildings
transforming the Town Hall into an Olympic arena populated with drawn crowds,
projected onto the buildings, cheering as the projected athletes perform
amazing feats!
Young people also had the chance to work with the animator to create their own
2D animated characters to feature in the crowd for the event.