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Saffron Walden County High School and Partner Primary Schools Summer School 2007

2007-08-14

Every year our team work with Saffron Walden County High School to undertake a creative challenge which encourages students at the school and its partner primary schools to work together and engage with creative technologies. This year the challenge was as big as ever and involve

Every year our team work with Saffron Walden County High School to undertake a creative challenge which encourages students at the school and its partner primary schools to work together and engage with creative technologies. This year the challenge was as big as ever and involved all ‘groups’ taking part having to work together with each other to make ‘one big story’. On the 11th of July Hal MacLean and myself headed down to the school to train the young people in four hours how to use the following pieces of software: Final Cut Pro (Video Editing) GarageBand (Sound Editing) iStopMotion (Animation) Comic Life (Comics) iMovie (for use with Reflecmedia kit to allow Chroma Key work) This is the first year we have introduced Final Cut Pro to the 10 - 13 age range of pupils. We believe Apple’s iMovie is far too easy for young people who are now ‘tech savvy’ in comparison to the year 2000 (when we started this project). Young people now require high end tools as the desire to achieve high quality effects increases, Final Cut Pro has meant we’ve had to teach young people how to edit in the same software the BBC edit the news programme you will no doubt watch on TV this evening. We’ve als…

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