The project began as a plan for a film project with members of the ‘Making Rainbows’ service at Grapevine Project, Buxton – a mental health support charity. It took a while to find funding and when the workshops ran over an intensive period in summer 2010, we drew young people from across Buxton.
Our project team worked in drama and creative writing, camera work, directing, animation, music, scoring and video editing – and created a 10 minute film called “What Have I Done?” – a thought provoking piece about tough choices, making mistakes and facing up to reality.
(They worked with professional artists: Actor and Theatre Worker, Tammy Foley; Film Maker, Mat Johns; Animator, Paul Devereaux; and Musician, Aidan Jolly.) Since the project, three people are now working towards their Arts Award (Silver), one has shot some short films at home and another has been offered a MediaBox Bursary to start a film group at his school – see “The Marcus Project”.
Community Arts in the High Peak
