Monday 21 March 2011

FOURTH DAY - Leeds Museums & Video Editing Workshop

Thursday, the group started the day with a visit to the Leeds City Museum and the Leeds Art Gallery, where participants had the chance to observe the different media methodologies used by museums to display their exhibition, and also to learn more about English culture.



After a lunch at the Farthing’s restaurant at Leeds City College (another vocational training restaurant), participants enjoyed an afternoon/evening workshop with Lifeforce Productions, where they learned about video and soundtrack editing. First, all the participants set in Front of a mac and the software ‘’I movie’’  and created their own movies about the Grundtvig Learner Workshop using footage taken during the first three days of ‘’Exchanging Dreams’’.



Some participants choose after to participate to a backing track workshop, and others preferred to concentrate themselves on their video.  One of the French participant, Leon, took the microphone for an impromptu  slam, followed after by each group.



Participants left the workshop with a copy of their video on a DVD. The music ‘’Everything is Possible’’ is available for downloading online. All these production were presented during the last night in UK to all the groups in a city centre London restaurant booked for the celebration night.





INTERVIEWS:
Natasha, participant from UK, speaks about the video editing workshop.


Transcription: My favourite workshop was the editing workshop. During the workshop we have taken all the clips that people have recorded and we put them together in short film and we like edited music and transitions and at the end of the week all the films got presented . And I’m really proud of my film because I just enjoy editing and I’m hoping to do this at some point in the future.



Leon, participant from France, speaks about the audio editing workshop that was his favourite.  Moreover he expresses his interest about the photography workshop.

Transcription: Well, my all time favourite workshop was the music workshop, because I was already into the all music thing and then I was able to see the production of an instrumental hip hop hit. Everybody participated in this song so that was very very interesting. Well, I actually learned a lot about photography for example, because I never really was into taking pictures, because I’m not really a picture person and then I learned that even with a simple camera you could take quick pictures.
 


One of the participants taking a picture at the Leeds City Museum.

Video editing workshop at the Media center in Leeds.

Participants editing their own video using the clips recorded during the week.

Participants creating their own song during Audio editing workshop at the Media centre in Leeds.

One of the participants recording the song.



The soundtrack ''Everything is Possible'' created by the participants during the workshop:



Videos created by the participants during the workshop:

Video realized by Natasha


Video realized by Simona and Marta


Video realized by Carl, Joy and Alex


Video realized by Justine, Yves, Maxime and Jérémy

Video realized by Giuseppe and Simon



Video realized by the Hungarian group