What issues do you care about?
What do you want to see changed in your community?
What do you think the media needs to pay more attention to?
This three to five day video production program is an opportunity for young people to produce and distribute short films about their visions for a stronger community. It is a journey into the process of creative collaboration and an opportunity for youth to speak up about the changes they want to see in their lives, their community, and the world.
Participants learn how to:
- Use a video camea;
- Set up lighting and make best use of natural light;
- Frame a shot;
- Tell a story around an issue of their choice; and
- Translate these skills into a film that expresses their unique perspective
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.
Youth leave the workshop confident in their filmmaking skills, excited about the film they created and empowered to share their creation with the community.
Reel Youth facilitators are artists themselves, fluent in empowering youth using the media 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.
The program includes all the materials needed to put on your own screening of the touring Reel Youth Film Festival: posters, stickers, handbills, press release, screening DVD that includes all the films made in the program mixed with youth made films from around the world, and audience programs and voting ballots.
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