Film, Digital Media and Moving Image articles, South west England, UK - Screen 2004 at TR2
Screen 2004 at TR2Young people got a taste of the media when they took part in December s Screen 2004 event at TR2 -a collaboration between Creative Partnerships, South West Screen and Plymouth Media-Partnership (PM-P). Schoolchildren aged from 13 to 17 from Plymouth, Cornwall and Devon took part in interactive workshops run by PM-P members in animation, web technology, games design, camerawork and editing techniques, TV programme development, news gathering and editing and film and video sound. Schools and colleges taking part in Screen 2004 included Stoke Damerel Community College, Plymouth College of Further Education, Estover Community College, Coombe Dean School, Devonport High School for Boys, Ivybridge Community College, Saltash.net Community College, Sir James Smith s Community School - Camelford, Bodmin College, Newquay Tretherras School and Camborne Science and Community College. The aim of Screen 2004 was to offer students a clearer understanding of the work involved and a better picture of potential careers available in media and new media in this part of the world. Creative Partnerships Area Creative Director Lindsey Hall told a Screen 2004 audience that creativity needed to be injected into our education system to help prepare young people for careers in the fast-moving creative sector: Of our current 11-year-olds, 60 per cent of the jobs they will do in their adult lives have not yet been invented. We need to prepare them for a creative and flexible approach to their futures, and programmes and partnerships like these definitely help us to move forward on that front. Deep Blue Sound studios in Plymouth hosted film sound editing workshops, where young people worked to synchronise appropriate sounds over a First World War movie clip. Jack, 17, from Stoke Damerel Community College, Plymouth, worked on brand new Mac G5s in the workshop, running ProTools software. He said: It s opened our eyes to see stuff like this. Sundog Media s animation workshop was popular with schoolchildren from Sir James Smith s School in Camelford. Ayla Poynder, 14, said:
It was really fun and interesting and I m certainly considering going into the industry now. Alice Rowe, also 14,agreed: I thought it was really interesting.I might want to do that in a future life. Screen 2004 also saw the first full screening of the recently - completed Creative Partnerships, Culture South West and South West Screen-supported project Bytesize , where the region s young film-makers collaborated with South West media professionals this summer to make 14 90-second movies reflecting on what culture means to them. Screen 2004 also witnessed the official unveiling of the EyeBorg a device created by Plymouth technology firm and creative partner HMC Entertainment Systems to help colour-blind painter and musician Neil Harbisson to perceive colour. The device, which won the Europrix 2004 Top Talent Award, made national news and TV and was demonstrated by Neil and EyeBorg creator Adam Montandon at Screen 2004. HMC s talents are being put to further good use by Creative Partnerships through the development of a virtual network which will provide an infrastructure that allows young people to work collaboratively with each other and creative practitioners and organisations. For more information contact Cass Dennis at cassiel.dennis@keap.org.uk Mike Fletcher, the Plymouth city councillor tasked with overseeing the City Council s Creative Plymouth strategy, said of Screen 2004: It s exciting stuff this wouldn t have happened five years ago. The city council is behind this agenda. We are creative here and we intend to make it internationally known.
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