biennialFreerunner: Green screen to do list

Monday, 9 June 2008

Green screen to do list

Hi Jo,

Cheers for the storyline. We have just had our meeting (which I'll post seperately) and are fired up with ideas on what we can realise for the lads.

In the meantime some things for you guys to do for Monday:

Jump safety - Can Dave Ball arrange some time with the lads to review some safety tips before next Monday. It can be after school (Dave can you post when you can be available?)
Clothes - on Monday can the lads ensure they wear nothing with green in it
Mats - you're sourcing these
Props - I'm going back to Toxteth Tv tomorrow afternoon to recce what props they have and to gain the green paint colour. What are the chances of borrowing a gym vaulting horse that we could wrap in green cloth? Any props the lads bring will need to be sturdy and safe, painted, and dry for Monday
Travel - can my students get reimbursed for their travel on Monday?
Monday start - We need to be in for 9:00am on Monday so we can get everthing set up as quickly as we can. Will this be a problem for the lads?

I think that is all for now. I'll post the summary of the production meeting later.

2 comments:

jo9 June 2008 at 21:18
Hi, Yes we can borrow a horse but we cant paint it so would need to be a cloth. I emailed Lee about that today, not checked for a reply yet. Stan is taking equipment in the car on Mon so it is looking like me and the lads are getting a taxi but we will make it for 9am. Not sure we can fit in a session with Dave as there is something on every night after school this week, even the weekend as it is a staff residential. It would be great if Toxteth tv have any ropes or chains they could swing from as its tricky finding the right things that they need. Regarding reimbursment Im sure that will be fine, if they give me their receipts then I can send them to the Biennial. The work that Matt is doing is fantastic and is exactly the kind of look we are going for.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot9 June 2008 at 23:23
Hi Jo,

Great about the horse.

I'm meeting my guys in Lime Street and getting a Taxi to Toxteth TV. They are getting the train so we may all meet up and go in convey. Depends on times. Some of the specific ideas the lads have got will be unfilmable with the resources and time available, so the rope idea more than likely falls into this category. Once we get their storyboard Adam and I can break it down into a filmable shot list. This will be ready for Monday.
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

The Project

Traceur Tag
De La Salle School in collaboration with St Helens College

The theme for the schools project, Future, Fiction and Fantasy, seemed to instantly form a connection with our idea to produce a piece of work using Parkour and the virtual world as the concept. This film was a collaborative effort between De La Salle School and St Helens College and it was only through this collaboration that the desire to create a film based on the computer game genre was realised.

It was at the initial stages of the collaboration that contemporary artworks such as Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle proved influential along with the film Jump Britain and a variety of computer games such as Halo and Unreal, which helped us to establish the kinds of environment that could form the basis for the film.

Without a doubt the vehicle which supported this project’s creative growth and encouraged clear communication throughout was this blog, instigated by Dave Wood. This blog became a hub of activity which maintained consistency in content during the six month period. Ideas, thoughts, concerns, artistic references and discussions were posted daily, hourly and often by the minute in pursuit of our collective goal.

The most interesting element of the blog, from an educational perspective, was the innovative approach to formative assessment, providing rapid responses to creative problems in a contemporary manner aiding motivation and communication. Both De La Salle School and St Helens College are now exploring ways in which blogs can impact upon student’s development and bring assessment methods into the 21st Century.

This film explores a passion for an activity that in society can be considered as subversive or anti social and channels that enthusiasm into a creative medium. From a school’s point of view the boys were given an opportunity to express themselves in a language that is comfortable to them but in a safe environment, they worked with students witnessing the creative process in action but also what vocational links art can provide.

Finally, working on the School’s Project with the Biennial team has provided us with a fantastic opportunity to investigate contemporary approaches to schemes of work, work collaboratively between different institutions and the community and develop effective forms of communication, all of which have supported our personal development for the delivery of new initiatives such as the re-launch of the Secondary Curriculum and the introduction of the Creative and Media Diploma.

Joanne Millea

Whois biennialFreerunner?

biennialFreerunner Productions is the creative collective formed out of this Biennial project. It soon became apparent to Dave and Jo that the pooled talent, the excitement and the dedication of the students and graduates had naturally formed into a "Hot Group" of multi-disciplinary creatives. As such, the project Jo had brought to Dave had evolved beyond its original scope and remit. It was therefore only natural to give this multi-disciplinary team a collective identity. The biennialFreerunner blog had actually become biennialFreerunner Productions.

There are 6 core collective members and 1 associate member of this collective: co-founders Dave Wood and Jo Millea, Adam Hamilton, Matt Frodsham, Dave Bentick and Stas Krakiewicz. Jose Flores is based in Brighton and his opening scenes were produced remotely.

Already one member of this collective has gone onto make a music video for a band as a result of his experiences as part of this collective.

See www.biennialfreerunner.com for more information or email info@biennialfreerunner.com.

Books by Dave Wood