Ultralab's Lifeboats.TV project main project begins in Weymouth, Dorset 22nd and 23rd of January 2002

One year after the initial pilot in Burnham-on-Crouch we were off. Colin, Mark and Matthew headed to Dorset to meet and interview the Weymouth Lifeboat crew and their families. With 40 people to interview it was no easy task, we had to break up into three film crews to capture the footage. Pete Bradshaw from

2001's Digital Creativity Summer School films celebrated at V&A in London

The results from the 2001 project are amazing, with 17 excellent movies. The movies were turned into a DVD and exhibited at the V&A (Victorla and Albert) museum in an evening celebration of digital creativity managed by the Ultralab team. Click to watch the audience arrive. The film ‘Tacky’ stretched the possibilities of iMovie 2,

Lifeboats.TV heads to St. Helier, Jersey

The second of our two pilot studies with young people. The lifeboats.tv team and some of the researchers from Ultralab’s notschool.net project worked together to test pilot the filming. St. Helier is on the island of Jersey, it was in ‘interesting’ flight in a six seater plane. The journey home was less bumpy. The objective

White Court School Students get creative at Ultralab in the first 30 minute film school

We experimented with a ‘One Hour Film School’ assisted by children from White Court School in Braintree, Essex. The plan was to find out if it was possible to teach how to use Apple’s iMovie software and Canon cameras in 30 minutes and for the children to then make a film without any adult help

Lifeboats.TV Burnham on Crouch

The Lifeboats.TV team rolled into Burnham-on-Crouch today to begin the film research for the RNLI’s Lifeboats.TV website. Thanks to all the team from Burnham involved in the pilot filming. Team: Matthew Eaves (Ultralab) Colin Elsey (Ultralab) George Variopoulos (Ultralab) From the initial footage, George Variopoulos made this initial film (it will take a while to