biennialFreerunner: Lads' Narrative Idea

Monday 9 June 2008

Lads' Narrative Idea

Hi,

We will have the storyboard idea and plan to you tomorrow for definite, but here is a rough outline of the story (still to be refined). The lads are very keen on Dave's suggestion but there are slight alterations.

Narrative

Using real film footage the lads are playing tag, doing their moves etc around the outside of a building and then they reach the roof. (fire escape type environments, run down, derelict buildings...) Matt is the master figure and the others students.They all stop as the sky starts to darken and they realise a comet is heading straight for them, it hits the building and they fall inwards through the roof. This is where it switches to a virtual environment. They are falling through floors with debris flying everywhere, occasionally glimpses of the firey sky show through the cracks. Matt manages to tic tac off a wall into a room, the students attempt this but end up grabbing a rope instead and fall into the room. Immeadiately they start to run as the walls are crumbling, they jump over obstacles. They get onto another floor, the master is cautious but the students bound into the space- tic tacing etc, they run to the edge and stop suddenly as there is a big drop down now that the building has fallen away. The camera pans down highlighting the big drop, they are shocked for a moment but then continue to run - want to find a way out. As the building starts to burn they are running from the flames which causes them to make a jump out of a huge window to a big drop below. The sky is burning and bright, smake and dereliction all around. The jumps could be in slow motion. They all get up and walk off with the master in front.

Unfortunately I can't make the meeting this afternoon as I have teaching commitments but if you have any questions I will try to check this blog and reply or you could ring the school and I will take the call.

Hope the story is ok it will adapt and be extended once the lads provide an updated version tomorrow and we welcome your views and advice. Thanks...

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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.

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