Reel Youth

VIDEO PRODUCTION PROGRAM

A 3 to 5 day video production program that empowers young people to make short films about issues their visions for a more just and sustainable future.

In this program participants learn how to:

use a digital video camera,
set up lighting and sound,
employ various camera angles and composition,
form a story around the issue of their choice, and
translate these skills into a film that expresses their unique perspectives.

The group is introduced to the editing program Final Cut Pro and collaborates with an editor to complete their film. A soundtrack is chosen from Reel Youth's database of original Canadian music for use in youth filmmaking or produced by the youth during the program.

Reel Youth facilitators are artists themselves. They are also fluent in empowering youth using the arts. Each of them has been trained to mentor young artists in their own filmmaking experience. Their job is to help the youth make the best film possible while ensuring all creative control is left with the young artists.

Youth leave the workshop confident in their filmmaking skills, excited about the film they created and empowered to share their creation with the community.

The program includes promotional materials (posters, stickers, handbills, press release) to screen the films following the program so that the youth can engage the community around the issues raised in the films.

filmmaking