Calling the Shots are pleased to be returning to Yeo Moor School this summer to work with year-six students to produce a short film.
Yeo Moor and Calling The Shots have worked together for the last three years as part of the Curzon Cinema’s Prince’s Trust Funded START project that aimed to support students to understand how films are made and develop the skills to ‘read’ films.
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Calling the Shots’ collaboration with the University of Bath, Arnos Vale Cemetery and the REACT programme at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol continues apace.
We’re currently in the process of consultation on ambitious plans to develop the “leading research and development centre for innovation and practice in death and remembrance”. The consultation, undertaken by Andrew Erskine and Tracey Gregory from the Tom Fleming Consultancy builds on the work of the Heritage Sandbox of July 2012, when four writers and four technologists and theatre practitioners took over Arnos Vale to explore and confront public attitudes to end of life…
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We’ve just been working with Cathy Poole from the Curzon Cinema in Clevedon for a third year on her Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts funded project that has allowed the Curzon to offer a programme of film literacy across North Somerset.
The project has seen groups of school children visiting the cinema, learning about film history, watching classic short films, and for 8 schools, working with CTS to produce short films.
Continue reading “When is good enough, good enough?”
The dust has now settled, DVDs have been sent out and thank you letters written after our second national ADSV BFI Animation Camp, part of Film Academy, the BFI’s programme for young people.
Continue reading “Time lapse – Reflections on the BFI Film Academy animation camp 2015”
