Today we're celebrating how an image can inspire different people to write different things. In our recent workshop, we experimented with using images as the starting point to prompt writing. Below are some responses to this photo - what would you write? When I look at this photo of the tree and sun picture it … Continue reading One picture, many words
Tag: Poetry
Growing Old Disgracefully by Sandra Falconer and Joyce Skinn
We leave you for now with this delightful film, featuring an interview with friends Sandra and Joyce, and their haiku collaboration. We love it because it shows what can happen *after* people take part in Celebrating Change - how they take their skills, confidence, and new-found creativity out into the world. https://videopress.com/v/ELXagkXo?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
Karma Cry-Sis by Nick Smith
An epic poem of social commentary today from Nick Smith, matched by his ambitious use of captured and vintage footage in a powerfully-paced montage. https://videopress.com/v/GvlF5LhN?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
Pools of Reflected Light by Joyce Skinn
Please take just a few quiet minutes out of your day to have a 'mindful moment' on the beach with Joyce. This beautiful film makes use of split screen to double up your viewing pleasure! https://videopress.com/v/ee7LStR0?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
‘Til DEath Do Us Join by Allan Rodgers
The poem that forms the foundation of this digital story is really from the heart. Watch out for the very simple, yet very effective visual device Allan uses in the film to symbolise the impact of huge emotions on the self - even without a big film budget, it's possible to create powerful imagery. https://videopress.com/v/mPsSeSGo?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
Cycles by Ailsa Falconer
This film by Ailsa makes use of typography on screen instead of a voice-over, and features Ailsa herself creating the theme music on her guitar. We hope you enjoy and share her love of nature. https://videopress.com/v/M1N0YqI5?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
On A day Like This by Fran Edwards
In this digital story, Fran tells us a little about how she came to live in Redcar, and shares beautiful reflections on the circularity and layering of time and familial relationships. https://videopress.com/v/KqFotemA?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
Erimus by Sandra Falconer
Sandra has been part of Celebrating Change for a couple of years now, making beautiful films about her family and community. In this latest digital story she combines film, photos, archive material and original stop-motion to celebrate the history of her beloved Middlesbrough - from dinosaurs to strikers! https://videopress.com/v/04hLXAlp?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
For My Mother by Atainu Mbikan
Like so many of us, Ati's year has been marked by great loss and bereavement. Although she was unable to participate directly in most of our workshops, the video resources we made for this third year of the project, plus the year-long use of our iPad, meant Ati could write and film at her own … Continue reading For My Mother by Atainu Mbikan
Clothes and objects as portals
In this, our last writing workshop of the project, we get inspiration from poems and prose memoir that takes clothes and objects as the starting point for describing life events. https://videopress.com/v/0B1MZHHC?preloadContent=metadata
Building your writing muscles – Christmas Special
So here it is, our last session of 2020, in which we take a whistle-stop tour of techniques and prompts used over the last 6 weeks and apply them to the creation of a Christmas/seasonal message! Combine the piece you produce from this tutorial with Laura's challenge to take footage of your Christmas, and you … Continue reading Building your writing muscles – Christmas Special
Building your writing muscles #5 – in which we reply to Mary Oliver
Use this tutorial video to inspire a series of short free-writes inspired by lines from the famous poem Wild Geese, which contains within it ideas of goodness, guilt, repentance, the physical body, and our relationship with nature. https://videopress.com/v/OkU2VCkI?preloadContent=metadata
Celebrating Change 