So how is art relevant today?
What does it mean to you?
Have you visited Dulwich Picture Gallery?
What would it take for you to visit DPG?
These are some of the questions posed by JAGS girls Emily Shackleton, Zara Mannings and Thuy-Ni Van in Dulwich yesterday, in a film-making opportunity offered by the online magazine TrueTube.
The Flip Project aims to support young people aged between 16-25 in developing a one minute promo film highlighting a positive aspect of their community. So Emily, Zara and Thuy-Ni found themselves in Dulwich Picture Gallery for a two hour’s workshop thrashing out what messages they wanted to send and how best to present them in their film, to engage with others of all ages in the community – and beyond; the audience is boundless.
Film is a powerful medium and this project gives young people the chance to make a film to make a change… Demonstrating that small positive actions can have a huge impact in society and that young people can voice for the voiceless!
One minute may not sound very long but it’s amazing both what you can achieve in the time and how much effort it takes to perfect it. So many decisions: Music or no music? What is the opening shot? To camera or voice-over? Text fade in/out? Voxpop or interview?
It was a case of training on the hoof: after panning through the gallery with a nifty little camcorder, a Flip Mino HD, they set off in hot pursuit of the people of Dulwich, ready with their questions. Zara and co were very persuasive in getting people to talk, and they found a variety of answers from a variety of people.
Having produced and directed the film and given minute instructions in how they want it edited, Danya and Harry from TrueTube do the editing. Their film will be shown along with others made (27 and rising) at TrueTube’s final event at the British Film Institute on 28 November.
by Alison Venn, Director of Communications, James Allen’s Girls’ School
Since its launch just over a year ago, TrueTube has received more than 7.5 million hits worldwide (averaging 1 million hits a month) and won the award for Innovation at the Education Resource Awards and the IPTV award at the Jerusalem Awards as well as a nomination for the New Statesman New Media award and the 2009 BETT Awards.
5.11.09 The film is now complete and up on the DOV video side bar, take a look.
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