2007 2006 2005 2004

Surrealism Animations

We have worked with three different Year 10 Art classes at La Sainte Union School to create animated films for their GCSEs. The project has built on last year's successful effort.

Thanks are due to Patrick Vale for helping to cover this project.

You can see this year's films on the school's website. Metamorphosis, Red riding hood and There was an old lady are the products from the project.

Brick Lane

We have completed an animated film for the Faiths United Project entitled 'Brick Lane'. Young people and adults from the Brick Lane area of Tower Hamlets were involved in interviewing people over the summer about their faith and religion. The participants also created drawings of the characters that we animated. We used filmed footage of Brick Lane as backgrounds for the animated film.

The finished film was screened at Rich Mix in November '06 and will be sent to schools throughout Tower Hamlets with teacher's notes and worksheets to be used in the classroom.

You can see the finished version and a write up on the BBC London web site.

Young People's Health Services

We worked with a group of disabled young people from Hammersmith & Fulham Action on Disability (HAFAD) on a film looking at accessing services for young people. This was part of a young people's project run by Hammersmith & Fulham Urban Studies Centre to get young people to participate in the development of new health facilities in the White City area of west London.

By looking at how easy or difficult it was to access current health services, the young people were able to make recommendations as to how newly developed services should be organised.

You can see some of their final video here.

Young Homeless People

We produced a ten-minute documentary with clients of the Kipper Project, a project for homeless young people in the east end of London. The young people developed their film with us to show the progress made through the project from a new arrival to someone receiving an offer of permanent accommodation.

As well as concentrating on three main characters the film is interspersed with vox pop from the clients talking about their first day at Kipper and where they expect to be in 5 years time.

Discovering Water Safety
digital:works was commissioned by Lea Rivers Trust and Enfield Council to work with the young people at Bounces Road Youth Club to devise and develop this original story and animation.

The young people developed the story after visiting their local waterway and learning about the 4 water safety points. They then drew their characters and acted out the scenes. To make the animation as accessible as possible there was a no dialogue policy which the young people dealt with very effectively. After we produced the animation we returned to the young people who added sound effects and created their own music.

The aim of the project was to encourage and promote the safe use of waterways for educational and recreational purposes.

Here's a short clip from the animation
Discovering Water Safety

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Industry Exposure
Cultural & Creative Skills with BBC Radio One commissioned us to work with students from Queens Park Community School to create four podcasts for young people looking for careers in the British music industry.

The students interviewed a variety of people including Producers, Artists, DJs, Publishers and Promoters who have worked with the likes of Oasis, Robbie Williams, Sade and Faithless. They edited the interviews using Garageband; wrote and added intros, links and credits; and used jingles, stingers and sound effects to complete four ten-minute podcasts.

The podcasts are available from iTunes: Just search for 'Industry Exposure' or directly from the feed at Cultural and Creative Skills where you can download the MP3 files.