Media Training and Education

Connections demonstrated the required skills that enabled their effective engagement with our cohort, who are often labelled as hard to reach, and as such have been excluded from mainstream education. All young people involved with the Connections project received OCN accreditations in Video & Web Production. This highlighted Connections’ ability to achieve positive outcomes for young people and contribute to increasing their emotional literacy.

Creative Activities for Young People
Connections has 25 years experience of supporting young people to develop life-changing skills. It works in partnership with schools and youth groups to deliver creative media workshops for young people who are at risk of offending or exclusion. Digital filmmaking and music production activities are proven to motivate and engage where formal learning has often failed. It is currently supporting young people to co-ordinate a film festival and produce six short films.

Interested in making films or music, Connections has got three projects for you to get involved in.

Young People’s Creative Forum
Are you aged 13-25 years and want to write and direct your own videos, make music or start DJing? Connections young people creative forum meets every three weeks and provides an opportunity for you to get involved with film and music projects. Connections works closely with the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. Recent young people’s productions have been screened on BBC2, Channel 4 website, Community Channel and the ITV Local website. There is an opportunity to link with youth TV in New York.

Visit our Myspace page for more info or call us on 020 8741 1766>

Media Writes
Media Writes Connections is currently working with six West London youth groups to produce six short films. The films will be streamed on Urbancre8ors TV and available on DVD in April 08. The project is funded through Media Box.

View films made by young people >

Young People’s led Film Festivals
We are supporting young people to organise 4 young people’s film festivals. If you want to get involved or have a film to screen contact Sam Karr. The project is funded by Film London.

Starting your media career?
Connections provides media related training courses free to unemployed people. Training includes all aspects of video production from scripting to camera, lighting and sound to Final Cut Pro editing, web design, webcasting and streaming. We currently do not have any vacancies. For new vacancies and to add your details to Connections mailing list please visit the link below.






Industry freelancer or business?
Connections is offering free and subsidised training places through Innovation for Success. The programme includes technical craft skills and leadership and management and will help you to:

• Pinpoint areas you want to focus on
• Get training in essential skills
• Build networks
• Understand how changing technologies will affect you

More about Innovation For Success >
  



The trainers

Malcom Moore
Malcolm works for Planispheres which provides consultancy on rights exploitation and business and legal affairs for film and television. He studied film finance at the NFTS, international copyright law at Kings College London, and is approved to run training courses for Skillset’s Screen Academies. As Chief Executive of the Directors Guild (1996-2002) he was instrumental in drafting contract guidelines and a new code of practice. Malcolm has practised as a Barrister and Solicitor, he is a BAFTA member and executive board member of the New Producers Alliance.

Simon Brise
Simon is an electronics engineer, broadcast MCR, facilities, maintenance engineer, broadcast studio cameraman & lighting operator, video editor, web designer, digital artist, lecturer in broadcast engineering & video editing.

Anton Califano
Anton originally trained as an editor, Anton has been making films since the mid-90s and his short films have been shown in over forty film festivals worldwide. His film “The Seafront” recently won second prize in the Current TV launch contest. As a qualified teacher Anton has considerable experience teaching film, as well as working with students and new entrants to the film industry in the UK and internationally. Anton is an experienced and qualified media industry mentor and coach.

Deb Durrant
Deb has 15 years experience as a change agent, consultant, project manager, trainer, facilitator, mentor, coach and evaluator. She is experienced in working with organisations that are in recovery from crisis, and also those on a more stable footing and wanting to thrive. She holds a Masters in Change and is a Certified Organisational Cultural Transformation Tools™ consultant. Deb has had a varied career in the creative industries as training manager at ITC, director of two arts centres, education officer, set painter, DJ, rock promoter, musician, media production and as board member of a number of organisations.

Rebecca Knapp
Rebecca is an experienced independent international producer/line producer. Her productions have been nominated for 3 Baftas and won 24 international awards. Rebecca has been teaching professional courses for the past five years in the area of fundraising, film finance, budgeting and scheduling, legal issues, pitching and running a creative company.

Duncan Sones
Duncan has over ten years experience of facilitating training and personal development programmes. As Chief Executive of the National Training Organisation for the Arts and Entertainment Industries he increased the turnover by ten fold in seven years. Duncan has also worked for West Midlands Regional Arts Board in a consultancy role supporting arts and media organisations with marketing, business planning and training. He has co-presented over fifty careers education programmes for the BBC, including the ground-breaking Hot Pursuits (BBC Knowledge and BBC Learning Zone).