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Creative Film School on BBC Blast Truck in Hatfield

2007-04-13

I’ve spent the past three days working on the BBC Blast Truck in Hatfield, delivering a Film and Camera Production workshop for young people. The Truck will stop this year in 30 places, with Hatfield being the first location.

I’ve spent the past three days working on the BBC Blast Truck in Hatfield, delivering a Film and Camera Production workshop for young people, which was delivered each day. The Truck will stop this year in 30 places; Hatfield was the first location. Last year, Hamish, Hal and I travelled with the truck (under the Ultralab flag) working with the local facilitators to deliver the Blast experience. We ran workshops and supported other facilitators to run theirs. When I arrived at the venue, it was good to see a lot of young people crowded around a DJ from BBC Radio 1Xtra, clearly enjoying the experience of learning 'Radio Production'. My own film-making workshop was attended by 21 young people. We used Sony Z1 video cameras, learned how to shoot, edit and create a film together. After practising, each group made their first film 'Surprise' within the three hours and were then set the tougher challenge for the following two days. The young people were then challenged to make a 100-second film entitled 'Confusion'. The film had to be exactly 100 seconds long, could only have three lines of dialogue and had to be shot in a way which was modern and not traditional. The films the young peop…

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