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News

Find out more about the latest news & information from Media Projects East:

February 2012: Seaside Memories

The Seaside Memories website is now online. See it here.

September 2011: The Teachers' Animation Toolkit

Our animation resource for the classroom will be published by Continuum on 3rd September in the UK, and one month later in the USA.

Further details here.

September 2011: Seaside Memories

We have just received funding from Young Roots Heritage Lottery Fund for a follow up project to Mardling From Coast to Broad, called Seaside Memories. Lowestoft based young people are exploring the history of local seaside entertainment in the surrounding coastal area. The stories they gather will be the inspiration for their own "end of the pier" film show, reflecting the changing styles of entertainment over the past two centuries. This will comprise of a mix of animations, documentary style reminiscences and dramatic sketches on video. This material will also be included on a web site alongside relevent reference materials, for others to use as a teaching and learning resource.

August 2011: The Best Friend

This partnership project with The Best Friend educational charity took place in Thailand, from the middle of August. We taught animation skills to Burmese refugee children at KM 42 Learning Center near Mae Sot and interviewed adult refugees about their lives in Thailand and reasons for fleeing Burma.

Further details here

July 2011: Skola Summer School

We taught film-making and animation to a group of students at the International Community School at Culford. Some explored folk tales from their home countries, others made sci-fi stories, a crime thrller and a documentary about the summer school. The students used the course to improve their English language skills. www.icschool.co.uk

July 2011: The Big Decision

We worked in partnership with The Shaw Trust to deliver a film production course for a group of school leavers from the Great Yarmouth area. The film is about making the transition from school to the world of work, and the steps needed to optimise one's career options.

It follows the fortunes of a 17 year old called Gazza, who falls out with his alcoholic father and takes the train to Yarmouth the crash with his older sister. After a few weeks of slumming it, his sister runs out of patience with him and kicks him out. He heads off to sleep rough on the beach. Sis has second thoughts, rescues him, and sends him to Social Services for support.

June 2011: Person Centred Recording

We recently completed a project with the Home Group housing charity. They needed a training video to assist their support team in person centred interview techniques with clients. We produced a series of clips demonstrating good, mediocre and bad practice, for use as discussion aids during their training days.

May 2011: We R Who We R

Year 9 students from Diss High School created a collection of short films and animations on the theme of identity. They span a wide range of subjects, including bullying, Facebook friendships, sport, cooking and scrapbook memories. The video will be sent to partner schools in Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Holland. The project was supported by Creative Partnerships.