| Course Accreditation
The course will be delivered by the Media Team from the 524 Media Centre,
(Sparkhill/Sparkbrook Community College and a number of partners to include
I.D.E.A.L. Productions and various Freelancers from the media industry.
Accreditation (OCNWM in Media Production) will be gained through South
Birmingham College providing the women complete 15 hours per week and
attend 80% of the course.
The Programme
The programme is intended to give a broad introduction to a wide range
of media production skills, which are directly transferable to practice
in the industry or further training/studies.
Delivery of the programme is flexible enough to cater for the particular
needs of the group, while still meeting the requirements for accreditation.
It has been developed as a direct result of requests from individuals
and community organisations in the last few years, in line with the centre’s
widening participation remit.
The course also includes educational visits (ranging from an overseas
visit, learning the skills of travelling journalism, to other museums
more locally to compare and contrast methods of working with archive material).
The group would be involved in a Community Radio Broadcast, where they
have an opportunity to produce a programme on the project or around the
project themes.
Course Content
The course would run over a 34 week period, 22 weeks to cover researching
the Museum’s collections and workshops in a range of practical media
activities to enable the production of a website, plus 12 weeks to complete
a radio/video production around the project.
How will they do it?
The course started on Monday 16 September 2002. Women are recruited to
the course which will run 3 days per week from now until June 2003. On
Mondays, the women visit the museum and work with the curators, looking
at objects found by Sarah Blackstock Assistant Curator (Human History)
during her mapping project of the museum collections relating to ethnic
minority communities, (During their first session they looked at slave
manacles and anti slavery medals.) Sarah used an object handling worksheet
used by the education department as the initial focus for her first session
with objects.
On Tuesdays they go to The 524 Media Centre where they work with Pauline
Bailey (course/project coordinator), and other members of the Media Team
to develop media skills in website design, radio production as well as
all aspects of the production process for video and television. On Wednesdays,
they put these skills into practice on a mobile unit that is parked outside
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. So far, they have been conducting vox
pops interviews in the city centre and editing them using the mobile unit’s
editing suite, getting to grips with the equipment and learning the controls
of the radio desk and sound production with desktop editing software that
enables them to produce adverts, jingles and station ID for the radio
broadcast.
The Mobile Media unit (owned by South Birmingham College) is the only
one of its kind in the country and passers by are curious as to what is
going on. Initially, they looked for space within the museum and in other
parts of the city that could be used for workshops but the mobile seemed
like a much better idea. It enables the learners to step out of the museum
and straight into a learning environment. As well as the women participating
in the project, there seems to be a number of people ‘hanging out’
around the unit which also acts as a magnet to involve more learners.
Tutors
Sound and Audio Editor: Paul Horton
Video/Audio/Radio: Ben Coley and Amirah Abdi
Radio: Micheal Brown
Activities include the following:
| Research and Media Skills |
Developing Ideas, Sources of Information and Management
of Info/Ideas, Media Representations, Equal Opportunities, Copyright
and other relevant legislation, Creative Writing. |
| Presentation and Communication |
Presentation to Camera, Interview Skills, Writing Treatments/Outlines,
Pitching Ideas, Group Presentations, Production Management, Writing
CV’s/Profiles. |
| IT/New Media |
Software Applications to enable DTP, Image Manipulation, Web Design
Multi-Media CD Rom and Digital Photography. |
| Outside Broadcasting |
Using a Mobile Studio for live Radio/Video Production, Travelling
Journalism (short feature), Health & Safety, Radio Production,
Video Production, Sound Production & Post Production. |
| Extra Curricula |
A range of ‘Enrichment Activities’ for personal development
to include educational visits to various places. |
Evaluation
Baseline information about the students is being gathered by the college.
The students are filming, recording and tracking themselves as they go
along. The key things that Birmingham and WMRMC want to demonstrate at
the end of the project is the added value that the museum has brought
to this – what has been achieved because of the partnership with
the museum over and above what would have been achieved if all the learning
took place in the college?
Last updated:
February 27, 2003
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