biennialFreerunner: Update, as of 4th June

Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Update, as of 4th June

Hi all,

I have now confirmed with Toxteth TV our green screen booking for Monday 16th. So this gives us one locked off production milestone we need to meet. I agree we need at least a St Helens team meeting. I suggest Monday 10th at 1:30 in C431. I'm in assessment boards after that on Tues, Wed and Thurs. It would also be a good time for Dave Bentick to meet you all, I will be meeting him at 12:30 and it would make sense to get him involved straight away. Jo, if you're free then feel free to come along.

The kids are staying late tonight behind at school to work on the story. I've asked for the story to be with us by Wednesday at the latest (Monday at the best) for us to storyboard and list the shots we will need. Adam and I will storyboard the shots. I think we will also need a final production meeting with us all on Friday 13th (I'm not superstitious) to finalise everything for the 16th.

To put everyone's mind at rest as to what we can achieve as a final result: I have asked Jo to allow the kids to use their imaginations as to what they want in writing the story. Filming of this in its entirety will most likely be problematic. The more detailed their story idea is will give us an opportunity to film the parts that will work on screen, using the facilities we have, in the time available. The end result may be a short film 2-3 minutes or an extended trailer (30sec-1min) highlighting the best bits of the story. We can't make that decision until we see the story.

I'll be freer on Friday from assessing if, Matt, you want to come in and we can have a design meeting?

How is everyone (St Helens crew) fixed for a meeting on Monday?

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Matt Frodsham5 June 2008 at 11:58
dave, just e-mailed you regarding the header & meetings.
-matt
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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.

Books by Dave Wood