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Groundbreaking social media film to chart life in the North West
An ambitious new film project is set to be launched in an attempt to capture everyday life in the North West through the eyes of up to 500 local and social media savvy citizens.
Led by the University of Salford, 'New Mornings, Old Streets' is being facilitated through £300k of government funding and £100k contributed by a range of partners, including the BBC, MediaCityUK Public Sector Partners, the Salford Arts Theatre and People’s Voice Media.
It will aim to give the 1959 BBC production A Morning on the Streets, which focused on working class life in the North West, a very 21st century update, with residents of the region filming their communities themselves using camera phones and camcorders, as well as audio recordings.
The University will be seeking up to 500 'stars' to appear in the project.
Project director Gaynor Richards explained more: “This is a great opportunity for local people to reject the old image of the region and to fashion one they know to be true.
“And unlike the traditional means of top-down learning, the interactive nature of this project will give people confidence to take their learning further into new areas that interest them.”
Anyone aged 19 and over living or working in and around Salford and Greater Manchester are invited to participate in the film.
Alongside the finished project, the partners will be running activities based around it, taking in creative arts, social and cultural history, health and well being and self-development.
A film and audio archive will also be built from the footage recorded.
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Great news for the North West - power to the people !!!
Seeing that the blog for the project is being provided by People's Voice Media and is hosted on WordPress, this may end up as showing North West as the region that is stuck in the trunks as far as Social Media is concerned. Bless them...
Speaking of groundbreaking social media entertainment, whatever happened to that Sex and the City rip off that was being filmed at Brazen? Spinning Jenny?
Hope this project commands a bit more success than that.
I think its wonderful! It gives communities and valued citizens an holistic opportunity to discover solutions to their inner self and dynamism All whilst drawing on a background of multi cultural and ethnic diversity. It will also dispel the antiquated theory that learning from someone who knows more is the right way to go. As Gaynor Richards said '“And unlike the traditional means of top-down learning, the interactive nature of this project will give people confidence to take their learning further into new areas that interest them.”
“This is a great opportunity for local people to reject the old image of the region and to fashion one they know to be true." What utterly self-righteous, self-serving twaddle. Precisely WHICH old image, Gaynor. Last week? Last month? A year ago? Five years ago? 10? 20? 100 years ago? This is cliched cultural colonialism at its gut-wrenching, nausea-inducing worst; and the most shockingly Stalinist-sounding part of it is this sentence;
"....Alongside the finished project, the partners will be running activities based around it, taking in creative arts, social and cultural history, health and well being and self-development...."
Pass the sick-bag.
Couldn't they save time and public money by just downloading the requisite amount of VT from youtube?