Workshops
Everyone has a story. 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 workshop leaders are fully DBS-checked, and services are tailored to suit the needs of each 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 and podcasts. Each project is shaped in collaboration with the client to find the format best suited to the group. Workshops can also be aligned with existing school curricula where required.
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
While every workshop is bespoke, examples might include: creating a stop-motion animation around a subject that matters to the group; producing documentaries about a local area; recreating a scene from a well-known film; or making a short radio documentary inspired by a newspaper article. Workshops can run from a single day to a full week.
Here’s how a typical three-day documentary workshop might be structured:
DAY 1
Morning: Developing ideas for documentaries about the local area
Afternoon: Introduction to key camera skills
DAY 2
Morning: Filming on location and conducting interviews in the local area
Afternoon: Introduction to basic editing techniques
DAY 3
Morning: Editing documentaries and adding sound and music
Afternoon: Screening the films and reflecting on each other’s work
