Update - Young Peoples Film Festival event - 18th November 2005, Falmouth Screen Actions at Young People’s Film FestivalThe Young People’s Film Festival, this year entitled ‘Screen Actions’, supported by Creative Partnerships, Awen Productions and the Cornwall Film Festival among others, has generated a huge response from the schools and young people of Cornwall. The third year running that Friday’s daytime events at the Cornwall Film Festival have been devoted to young people, this one was even more special because the whole thing has been planned, marketed and co-ordinated by students for students. On Friday November 18th youngsters from Mullion, Falmouth and Newquay Tretherras Schools saw their hard work come to fruition as schools from across the region came together to enjoy the day, in an event that left Falmouth Arts Centre literally ‘buzzing’. Cassiel Dennis of Creative Partnerships says: “This has been an incredible day. Because the young people have run it themselves, with the support of professional film makers as well as technicians and theatre managers, they have taken a real ownership and have generated a huge amount of interest throughout schools and colleges. It’s been fantastic. I think they’ve done an amazing job.” Young people from the three co-ordinating schools introduced each of the day’s events and worked with technicians and front-of-house staff to make the day run smoothly for the visiting schools. Screenings included five hours of the best new films made by youngsters and schools in a range of projects and programmes, made in school, after school and some out of school entirely! The range of talent and wealth of the ideas was astonishing, with animations, documentaries both real and spoof, and narrative films exploring the questions and issues that face young people in Cornwall. Youngsters (and teachers) also got to try out lots of creative film and video techniques between screenings: workshops in stop-frame animation, blue-screening, ‘VJ-ing’, mobile phone film-making, sound effects and film soundtrack creation, documentary editing and compositing kept youngsters developing new skills, and many left at the end of the day full of ideas about their next project. The workshops were delivered by a talented group of professionals that included film-maker Barbara Santi, musician Jim Carey, multimedia expert Jamie Barber, Tom Harding and Naomi Ross of AV3 Media, film expert Stuart Lansdowne, and team members from the Institute of Digital Arts and Technology at the University of Plymouth. Visiting students from Cape Cornwall School in St Just said: “I enjoyed it and found it really inspiring. It has made me want to do more films.” Gideon Beresford and Jack Perry added: “The blue-screening workshop was great, and some of the films were really good to see.” Jackie Matthews, teacher at Mullion School said: It's been a great end to a fantastic project which we've all thoroughly enjoyed and gained so much from.” And Tanya Fenton, a student of Falmouth School said, “I am really proud of the whole event – it’s gone so well. I hope it has inspired people to make more films.” |
