The Crowd steps in to kick start our New Mills youth film project
Shout Action is our young film makers group, and since the success of their first film, Super Chowder, the group have been fund-raising to launch their next film idea. They have run events, spoken at local meetings and have used the website, Crowdfunder, to spread the campaign across their community through social media networks.
This week they are celebrating reaching their target of £500, with nine backers using the website to pledge their support. Shout Action member, Billy, said “We have run bag-packing, busking and had our own Super Hero fund raising day, and we are really grateful to everyone who has supported us.”
Boosted by their achievement, plans are underway to put together a schedule for pre-production, filming and completing the new film.
The group has already received a day of training, by Manchester-based film maker, Matt Kowalczuk, and the new funds will allow them to pay for him to visit the project at key points. Taking the group’s ideas and understanding, Matt’s expertise will guide them through potential pitfalls and show them new techniques to create a film of high quality.
Another Shout Action member, Mia, said “we enjoyed our first film making experience and got a lot out of it, in confidence and being creative. We want other young people of other ages around our town to have the same experience as well.”
So now the dust has settled, and the tables scraped clean we’ve been emailing out the pictures we didn’t finish on the day.
Ten sessions of music making were spread across four different weeks, with sessions for Junior and Senior youth. They worked with musicians Mark Turton, Mike Davies and Yasmin Heathcote and lots of people of all ages came in to try out instruments and write their own songs. We made lots of recordings during the week and sent out CDs to everyone who came.
