The VJ Workshop aims to offer young people a voice to actively express their views and participate in activities that have positive impact on their neighbourhood, community and environment through a range of creative projects involving video, music and IT technology which they can access.
In philosophy, a Dérive is a French concept meaning an aimless walk, probably through city streets. The French philosopher Guy Debord used this idea to try and convince readers to revisit the way they looked at urban spaces. Rather than being prisoners to their daily route and routine, he urged people to follow their emotions and to look at urban situations in a radical new way.
This led to the notion that most of our cities were so thoroughly unpleasant because they were designed in a way that either ignored their emotional impact on people, or indeed tried to control people through their very design. The basic premise of the idea is for people to explore their environment without preconceptions, to understand their location, and therefore their existence. (Wikipedia) The video below is an edited clip of the Ghetta' Life youth event that took place at the Synergy Centre in 2006. It was a result of a 5 week workshop involving young people from local communities in South-East London. The Workshop started by discussing the project in group forums and deciding which visuals work best in the context of the course for VJ clips. The supervised groups went outdoors to film material with video cameras and their own mobile phones. The clips were brought back, converted to the right format, edited and displayed in the Ghetta' Life event by several young people.
The VJ Workshop is a community arts organisation managed by two partners with extensive experience in the creative media industry, youth and environment and community arts sector. We offer the unique combination of a cross media sound and vision programme. This course is not offered by other production agencies for the local community.
'Play for Real' is a 7 minute documentary film which was commissioned by Groundwork Southwark & Lambeth in order to help inform the Southwark Play Strategy of the consultation work they have been doing in local play areas. Documentary clips have proven to be a succesful source of information and a great contribution to the understanding of programmes. They also contribute to the understanding of young people's needs by accessing their world and seeing it in their eyes.
The Video Jockey workshop aims to introduce participants to software used by professional Video Jockey’s in clubs to blend and mix their own images to music – creating colourful and powerful visual displays. Individuals will learn to shoot video with a video camera or a mobile phone and edit and manipulate the footage using editing software.
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