Workshops
We believe that everyone has a story to tell. Our workshops empower participants with the skills they need to tell it.
How it works
We work with schools, prisons, hospitals, NGOs, charities and other third-sector organisations to offer film and podcast making workshops.
These can be for fun, for creative therapy, for new skills or for team-building. During the workshops, participants will learn the skills they need to make a film, a photography project or a podcast, from start to finish.
All our workshop leaders are fully DBS-checked and we cater our services to suit the needs of the group, be it primary school students, prisoners or villagers in a rural community! We work both locally and internationally and our workshops range from documentaries, to short films, to stop-motion animation, to radio programmes, to podcasts. We collaborate with the client to discover which format will best suit the group we’re working with. We will also work with schools to ensure the workshops fit within their current curriculum.
Alongside teaching key skills in film and audio making, our workshops also:
Develop team-working skills
Encourage use of imagination
Build confidence
Empower people to tell their own stories in their own words
Examples
Whilst every workshop we offer is bespoke, some examples might include 1) a stop-motion animation on a topic close to the particiants’ hearts, 2) making documentaries about their local area, 3) recreating a scene from a famous film, or 4) making a short radio documentary based on a newspaper article they’ve read. Workshops can be anything from 1 day to 1 week long.
Here’s an example of the structure of a typical 3 day docmentary-making workshop:
DAY 1
Morning: Developing ideas for documentaries about their local area
Afternoon: Learning key camera skills
DAY 2
Morning: Going out and interviewing people in their local area
Afternoon: Learning basic editing skills
DAY 3
Morning: Editing their documentaries and learning how to add music
Afternoon: Showing their films and reflecting on each other’s work
