Community Project Models
Film School In A Box offers the opportunity to provide quality innovative film and media experience in school during after-hours periods. This can be offered to disadvantaged communities or to those living outside the catchments of traditional film courses based in major cities.
There are a number of models for delivering the projects:
Schools in after-hours periods
Given that secondary schools end their working days at approximately 3pm, there is an opportunity to offer film courses until 6pm over a period of a few days or weeks. FSIB would offer students an opportunity to learn film making on industry-standard equipment and develop their communication skills as well as their interest in further or higher education.
Workshops
Workshops could be organised on weekends, at film festivals (as with Raindance Kids) or during the working week. These would attract younger children. They could be developed with councils' youth programmes and development funds.
Raindance Kids
Raindance could offer training in the form of three-day, weekend or week-long workshops. This would be free but would be aimed at supporting disadvantaged children in the 11-19 age-group.
University Outreach Programmes
Universities and colleges across the UK organise links with local schools, often with emphasis on disadvantaged communities or groups. They develop ‘Summer Schools' or ‘Life in a Day' activities, often during Wednesday afternoons or summer, Easter and winter breaks. Partnerships with such universities (as with the Royal Holloway pilot project) would reduce costs and increase efficiency by working with already existing links. Educational workshops could be organised with schools as part of the national curriculum. As of 2009 the secondary high schools' national curriculum will require training or awareness of media-based practical forms of communication. FSIB could either deliver the training, or train staff and rent the equipment.
