Mar 26 2007

Send Your Ideas to Nesta

Category: Ideas and Challenges, News and Announcementsrob @ 4:44 pm

We don’t very often carry project information from publicly funded bodies. In fact I think this is the first. However I have a feeling that this Nesta project could promote some really interesting results. So read on and let’s see what happens.

Nesta is looking for ideas from organisations that wish to promote innovation, enterprising attitudes and behaviours around risk. The projects need to be relevant to young people, the professionals that work with them, the environments supporting or any combination of these.

Nesta is hoping to create 2 -3 pilot projects with a value of £10,000 - £60,000.

Applications should be from

  • National and regional voluntary organisations;
  • Groups delivering enterprise education activities;
  • Youth agencies
  • Organisations involved in delivering innovative education programmes
  • Business and Education Partnerships;
  • Creative Partnerships;
  • Clusters of schools that wish to collaborate on a new project;
  • Partnerships between schools or colleges, and business.

The closing date for applications is 11th May 2007
It looks as if Nesta are looking for engaging ideas that will promote innovation in young people. If you’re part of an organisation that does this kind of work then contacting Nesta makes sense. To get more information please click here.


Mar 10 2007

Running Tests

Category: Film, Myspacerob @ 1:07 pm
Consumed is gearing up for a year of shooting. To get started we’ve been doing some (ahem) running tests. Click here to take a look.
The objective of the day was to get some practice in with our steadicam when doing action scenes, create something that needed audio editing - again its all about the practice, the final component was video editing. This is the first cut. Another is in preparation so we will be able to compare the two and learn. The second cut will be posted all going well, so you can judge progress.
We gained our location and props for this test with some kind help from Fear of the Dark. Many thanks to the FOTD team.We also have the first of an extended series of video blogs in edit at the moment. The hope is to make these a feature of the Consumed shoot. I’ll announce this when it is ready.
All of this is part of our baby steps approach to filming. Do a little, do it often, and build up both our experience and eventually the footage for the film itself.