Welcome

Welcome to our blog a new adventure, hope you like our new website leave us a comment about it if it takes your fancy. This blog will be a space to share some more of the nuts and bolts of what we get up to. There will be short films made in workshops, behind-the -scenes photos, evaluation of projects, which lovely people we are working with – are you one of them? Let us know what it’s like for you being involved in a project.

DIGITAL FILM SCHOOL at the Open University has started!

After all the years of planning and lots of hard work this year, the Digital Film-making Course that Catcher Media have created with the Open University is now in it’s first presentation. It’s not too late to join. Check out the video. Join up here. 

The Close In Living Memory Screenings

Digital Film School

We are currently co-producing an on-line 10 week video course with The Open University due to go live in autumn. Follow the DFS blog for updates. Here’s a taster from Rick…..

“We wanted the students to get a taste of editing as soon as possible as this is often the subject that is left until later but some basic understanding of it affects the whole approach you take with your ideas, scripting and filming.”

 

 

 

The Close In Living Memory

Screenings at Borderlines Film Festival -  The Courtyard, Hereford

The Close in Living Memory – Hereford Cathedral Close Oral Reminiscences
Thursday 31st March 2011 6.15-7.45pm- £4

This film brings to us many of the stories and events that have been lived out in and around one of Hereford’s most significant public spaces. Tales of ghosts, royal picnics in the rain, rice pudding, playing football with medieval skulls, VE celebrations and buskers. With beautiful archive images, great characters and fascinating stories – if you thought the close was just a place to pass through to get to town, think again!

The screening will be followed by a Q+A session with participants from the film.

The Close in Living Memory: Learning Zone – Bringing history to life
Thursday 31st March 2011 4-30-5.45pm – Free event

A chance for Herefordshire schools teachers to experience the huge educational potential of this project. St. James CE primary and Lord Scudamore Foundation and Catcher Media have created
‘A Journey Around The Close’ and ‘World War 2 in Herefordshire’.  These films provide new learning materials that will give pupils a great introduction to local history and World War 2.  Join us for the films, see some intergenerational work in action and receive a free DVD and activity pack. You will also have the opportunity to talk directly to the creators of the resources. This event is also open to the general public.

“Children who see this will be very lucky” – St.Martins primary school pupil

A Catcher Media presentation for the Hereford Cathedral Close Project in association with In Our Age supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Is this what you want? Photo’s from shoot

DarK Water nominated for award

We found out yesterday that Dark Water a Mediabox project we made with pupils from Sneyd School in Walsall has been nominated for best sci-fi/horror category at the  Limelight Film and Arts Awards 2010. The award ceremony is on Thursday, July 8 in London-fancy do tuxes all round.

Sunshine and puppets

We have been having great fun playing with… oh and filming puppets for a new resource for 5-7 year olds about growing up. Many different voices, many different puppets and many different uncomfortable angles to work the puppets….

Hereford Cathedral Close

We have been out and about for the last couple of weeks filming and interviewing peoples reminiscences about events and happenings in the Close over the last 80 or so years. Ghosts, chorister baptisms (unofficial), bishops on the helter skelter, living on the close now, buskers and the homeless- it’s rich pickings. Photos to follow. See the Close In Living Memory on our website

Notes to Self workshops

Here’s some photos of pupils at Barr Beacon Language College creating story lines for ‘Notes to Self’ using role play (and chairs)