The Film Cuts Club is our filmmaking club for young people with additional needs, run by filmmakers Mark and Benn Turton. We have been funded by BBC Children in Need for nearly 9 years, with the Saturday club at The Vineyard, Glossop offering a welcoming and inclusive environment for anyone with a passion for films. The group starts from age 8, and has a fantastic mix of abilities and a few older young volunteers.
The club aims to teach the full process of film making to all participants, with collaboration over discussion of current work, progress and aims.
Everyone takes a turn at the different roles including writing and planning, directing, camera work, acting and then editing and post-production. With an overview of how these roles work, people then specialise in an area that suits them most and they form teams where each person’s strengths support the others in the group.
More experienced and older members are encouraged to become more independent and to support new starters.
“It’s been amazing – working with everyone, working with all the people who make it work – get our heads together, make a good film and we’re just enjoying ourselves basically – I love it”
This is our Youtube Playlist – click on the top left hand menu to choose a film!
We also run sessions at Chapel en le Frith after school club for one term. Last year they produced a magazine-style show, with features drawn from ideas across the group (Chapel TV Blast in the playlist above).
“It’s sort of a free rein thing as well – where as most of the stuff they do in lessons… is sort of directed by ‘well this is what we’re doing today’ – they’ve not done this before and it quite surprised me how well they’ve thrown themselves into it.” Teaching Assistant.
For more information or to sign up contact Sophie on 01663 744516, or by email sophie@highpeakarts.org.
A lunchtime club at Glossopdale school – making a stop motion animation.Glossopdale Film Cuts Club started meeting on Friday lunchtimes in October 2010, in the Learning Support classroom. The group is made up of around 8 core members with others dropping in to help when needed, for instance giving feedback on our ideas.The project aims to provide activities including animation techniques, creative writing, acting, technical skills in camera work, directing and editing on computer.Employing a film maker who is experienced in community workshops, they have a good understanding of the issues the young people face. They structure the sessions to build on social interaction, peer support, team working and sharing a common goal.
In the early sessions we developed a storyline which included ideas from every member of the group, and worked on the groups dynamics.Squeezed into a lunchtime these sessions offered barely more than 30mins of productive time, so when we were given the chance to use a MediaBox bursary in December – thanks to Kim Johnson from Derbyshire County Council – we added a new session on a Tuesday afternoon with animator, Alex Kelly, from Stockport College. These sessions ran through to early February, with activities divided between fabrication of the scenery and characters, script writing, audio recording and shooting of the animation frames. Due to time constraints Alex took the footage, audio and chosen soundtrack and put it together into the finished film.
The group continued to meet on Friday lunchtimes to carry on with their Arts Awards, with Andrew working towards Silver, and Lee and Paige working towards Bronze.
