Pupils in year 5 at Lisle Marsden C of E Primary School used photography, film making, script writing skills, adobe premiere and photostory 3 to produce 2 versions of the Easter Story.

Firstly the pupils scripted and story boarded the traditional gospel version of the easter story and acted out the story while taking still images of the scenes, using microsoft photostory the pupils were able to add narration to the film along with a soundtrack.

In the second week of the project, pupils scripted ‘Jerusalem Today’, a tv news station that interviewed key characters in the easter story. Using chroma keying techniques pupils were able to transport themselves in history.

As part of our Creative Partnerships change school project we are working to equip the school with new IT skills and a new creative approach to delivering certain parts of the curriculum. The school wanted to place a heavy emphasis on multi media and the creative use of ICT.

As part of our continuing work withg Creative Partnerships – Hull, we have recently started our second Change School Project with Lisle Marsden C of E Primary School in Grimsby.

The first phase of the project has been to deliver a keystage 1 / keystage 2 transition project based around digital media and a themed topic area.

The keystage coordinators decided they wanted to use the Great Fire of London as the theme so we planned to create a series of stop frame animation films and news reports based on the timeline of events from the historic event.

Th school had purchased digital still and video cameras along with ‘I can animate’ and Serifs – ‘movie plus x3′ software.

Below are the series of animation films produced by year 2 & 3 pupils.

The ‘Change School’ work has now begun in earnest and all the pupils and staff from Year 2 and Year 3 engaged in a very exciting two week ‘Transition Matters’ project learning about the Fire of London through the exciting use of film and ICT.

Working alongside Jon Robson and Chris Webster, the CP Creative Practitioners from Hull, children discovered through firsthand experience how a topic from the ‘Middle Ages’ can be brought to life through the amazing use of 21st century technology!

As well as having lots of fun and learning of course, this work has much deeper significance! All pupils and staff are mixed; teachers, teaching assistants and children from both Infants and Juniors are working together as one. Planning together, playing together, eating together and learning together! This project forms part of the important transition work that is now a feature of the school.

Transition isn’t simply children moving up in July as one school year ends and then starting again in September with a ‘new’ teacher with all the potential anxiety this can bring. It is about personalisation; getting to know the children, ensuring their needs are met, setting appropriate expectations and smoothing out progression as children move from the Foundation Stage to Year 6 and then finally preparing the way for the children as they move onwards into Key Stage 3!

USEFUL LINKS ::

Creative Partnerships – Hull
Lisle Marsden C of E Primary School – Grimsby.
Kudlian – I Can Animate – easy to use animation sofware for both Mac & PC.
Serif Movie Plus X3 – easy to use video editing software that allowed us to chromakey easily.

Cafesociety.org spent 5 years working with schools and young people on several of the Native American reservations in Arizona. Here is a selection of those Films made during Cafesociety.org digital workshops with young people on the Navajo , Hopi and Gila River Indian Community reservations. [1998 - 2003].
 

Our largest project to date on the reservation was REZ02 and invloved 8 creative practitioners visiting Arizona to hold a series of new media workshops with young people.

On July 18th 2002, a crew of 8 digital artists made their way from the UK and Holland to Arizona, USA to create a series of digital stories working with a selection of native american and rurally isolated young people.

Firstly we aimed to deliver a language and culture based multimedia project, showing students how to use film making equipment, web design, photography and computer animation to tell a story. 

The project explored Language Ecology which is the preservation of linguistic and cultural diversity. By using multimedia and film making projects we equipped the young people with new skills to record and preserve their own heritage and stories. 

The second goal of the project was to open up discussion with teaching staff from schools in Arizona to the possibility of future ways of collaboratively working and developing online curriculum projects and materials with schools in the Withernsea and South Holderness region of England.

We believe in the necessity for the preservation and celebration of all voices and if the youth are empowered with the skills to use modern day communications technologies, they can continue to speak out in their own voices, protecting and promoting their own cultures as they see fit.

Here is a small selection of our work with young people in our home-town of Kingston Upon Hull – UK. We love our city and these films will hopefully give you a glimpse from a young persons perspective of what they think to Kingston Upon Hull.

These films were produced by young people taking part in digital media workshops with Cafesociety and supported by or working in collaboration with :- The BBC, Creative Partnerships – Hull, British Library, Department for Culture, Media & Sport, Hull City Council and many Hull Schools. We hope you enjoy…

Films made in Freetown :: Sierra Leone with young people & Cafesociety.org as part of the Digital Citizens project in collaboration with Creative Partnerships – Hull.

Following visits to Sierra Leone during 2006/7, Cafesociety.org have developed strong links with young people in the capital city Freetown. These young people have helped us to produce a large number of short films, articles and other resources focussing on the harsh and also inspiring reality of life in Sierra Leone.

Here is a collection of content produced during workshops and projects based in the Republic of Seychelles. We have been running projects and workshops since 2003 in Seychelles in collaboration with The International School and more recently with the Seychelles University Foundation.

Seychelles is an island nation, it is located in the Indian Ocean northeast of Madagascar and about 1,000 miles east of Kenya.

This programme, lead by film-maker Jon Robson was geared to further international, creative links between Hull and Ethiopian communities. This work was started through the production of a series of films which were designed to capture impressions of life and learning for young Ethiopians.

The content of these films will inform future learning in Hull schools, around film making and citizenship and is geared to enhance a creative dialogue between Ethiopian and Hull schools. These films were produced during projects and workshops held in Ethiopia. The students we worked with attended the JRDC School. Shashemene. [Jamaican Rastafarian Development Community]

Our Ethiopia – Films by young people in Ethiopia

Pre release music video for Jah Bless Crew – shot & edited by Cafesociety.org.

We hope these guys do really well and wish them all the best,,, thankyou for looking after us in Seychelles.

Hull City – Wembley Winners .. What more can i say…

Sierra Leone’s reggae diva Khady Black performs Mr. Government. Filmed on location in Kingston Upon Hull – UK.

A showreel version of the 3 safe technology films has been produced to aid teachers when showing the films in the classroom.
The 3 films will be used as a teachers learning resource for schools in Seychelles.

We’d also like to add a big thank you to all who were involved in the making of these films. Especially the kids who we felt worked very well and enjoyed the experience.

The films produced will also be used as a larger learning resource to be rolled out to schools by the Seychelles National Council for Children. The 3 adverts will also be screened twice a night on the SBC channel.

Seychelles Safe Technology Group have commissioned this series of short informercials to be screened on TV to raise young peoples awareness to some of the dangers on the internet.

Over the last 10 years Cafesociety.org has delivered numerous digital media training programmes to adults and young people in a diverse range of communities around the world.

Our projects focus on areas such as digital storytelling, creative campaigning, film making and digital photography.

Our primary aim is to help young people develop their voice through the innovative use of new technology.