Film festival taster days

Hello hello

So the film festival taster days were the last two Saturdays in London and Manchester. I went along to the one in Manchester last weekend, and it was great! I was very pleasantly surprised, I was dreading the idea of being up and enthusiastic that early, but everybody seemed wonderfully keen and active.

We went through some climate change information in the morning, it was really interesting to hear the kind of questions that came up and I'd like to think we managed to answer them fully. The big things we got across was how much difference small changes can make, and why we should try to make that change, two messages I hope everybody took to heart and took home.

In the afternoon the more hands on stuff came out: filming! In small groups we discussed what we'd learnt in the morning, what we wanted other people to know, and storyboarded the most effective ways to get that across. We then went out and had - in my group at least - the loudest, craziest, most active filming session in the history of the world... I'm still recovering now. Once we'd got the material we headed in and everybody got a go at editing their work.

Some of the films were really good after all their hi tec polishing, hopefully we'll be able to get some of them up on this site and you can all admire their handiwork before stealing their ideas and making your own films to enter into the film festival! If you'd like some more info about the film festival have a look at the film festival page of the site.