12th May
12/05/09 05:57
More thoughts about working with challenging youngsters, report back on my meeting with Carolyn Hassan at the Knowle West Media Centre, further plans for the Sydney Garden project and plans for the coming year - including looking for funding from Adobe
and always have an exit strategy...
and always have an exit strategy...
this is testing the new voice recording device on my phone
and just making a note of the meeting that I’ve just had with Carolyn and Hassan at the Knowle West Media Centre
I started talking to her about the project in a fortnight and how I would cope with the teenagers and she suggested most of the things I have been thinking about which was have plenty up your sleeve do very short sessions raise the energy she thought that trying to get them to tell stories would be very difficult when she has tried that she has not really managed to get off the ground Digital storytelling that possibly to get it working around objects would work when they tried working with experience in stories it only worked with things like football and pets and bits and pieces like that but it didn’t get them thinking very deeply so she thought they may have trouble with that so it is basically about having a contingency plan and it is basically about the contingency plan being around the photography being around describing things and my new idea of creating the map itself physically as well as creating the media map and doing a lot of concentrating on photography so all those things
and then we started talking about possibilities the next year and a collaboration getting youngsters from Knowle West out to Sidcot and getting Sidcot youngsters back to Knowle West and we talked about horses because courses feature quite a lot in Knowle West we talked about the possibility of photographers coming out to Sidcot and joining in with the photographers at Sidcot and we talked shared website type of ideas
So there is a lot of potential there even at the very smallest scale some sort of sharing of time and experience and the next step is looking for funding so I will put in a bid to the Adobe youth voices funding and see if that will get me anywhere and we need to look at timing so nothing at all was decided other than making contact again and getting some ideas flowing
and just making a note of the meeting that I’ve just had with Carolyn and Hassan at the Knowle West Media Centre
I started talking to her about the project in a fortnight and how I would cope with the teenagers and she suggested most of the things I have been thinking about which was have plenty up your sleeve do very short sessions raise the energy she thought that trying to get them to tell stories would be very difficult when she has tried that she has not really managed to get off the ground Digital storytelling that possibly to get it working around objects would work when they tried working with experience in stories it only worked with things like football and pets and bits and pieces like that but it didn’t get them thinking very deeply so she thought they may have trouble with that so it is basically about having a contingency plan and it is basically about the contingency plan being around the photography being around describing things and my new idea of creating the map itself physically as well as creating the media map and doing a lot of concentrating on photography so all those things
and then we started talking about possibilities the next year and a collaboration getting youngsters from Knowle West out to Sidcot and getting Sidcot youngsters back to Knowle West and we talked about horses because courses feature quite a lot in Knowle West we talked about the possibility of photographers coming out to Sidcot and joining in with the photographers at Sidcot and we talked shared website type of ideas
So there is a lot of potential there even at the very smallest scale some sort of sharing of time and experience and the next step is looking for funding so I will put in a bid to the Adobe youth voices funding and see if that will get me anywhere and we need to look at timing so nothing at all was decided other than making contact again and getting some ideas flowing