The Tre Project

After Easter students will be following a brief set by Awen Productions.

Here is a link to their web-site and the blog that is documenting the progress of the project.

www.awen.org.uk

www.thetreproject.wordpress.com

Short films inspired by archive footage of Cornwall around the them of 'home' will be completed by the Summer and hopefully entered into the Cornwall film festival. The project will also allow for some creative use of photographic, graphic design and audio production skills.

You will have the opportunity to work with pupils from the Five Islands School on The Isles of Scilly and perhaps visit to share your skills with them. Workshops with industry practitioners are a feature of this unit which is called 'interact. It allows you to work alongside community groups and interact with ongoing projects.


Along

Personal Learning and Thinking Skills

As a team building exercise and to see who could work well within a team students were asked to make a model of Zennor out of spaghetti and jelly babies.

The winners managed a very complex architectural design based on the structure of DNA, apparently. Proving that they are not just pretty faces. The chocolates were shared and the jelly baby eating contest was won by Jelly Roll Joe Lorusso.

Tour of Zennor

View from Ground Floor

Learning Resource Centre
High Visibility from Top Floor





We viewed the new building which we will be moving into next Monday. A full health and safety briefing was necessary and appropriate clothing was needed as the build was not quite complete. We were able to get a sense of the scale and purpose of the building which would help us with our commission.




Penzance resident Dylan wonders at the new perspective from the refectory of his home town Penzance.

Overshoes were needed as the carpets were clean. Modelling here are Daniella and Lauren.

The views from the top floor were spectacular, affording a view across Mounts Bay.

Thank you to Kevin Buzza for conducting the tour and answering all our questions.

Work Experience

In October students worked at the Cornwall Film Festival. Biyan, Dylan and Harriet applied to work at the festival in Falmouth where their duties ranged from advising and ushering guests and helping with screenings. A free t-shirt and access to all the films and events was their reward.

Next year we hope to get more involved and hopefully we will nbe screening our own short films that we will make for the 'interact' unit.


Dylan Stratton Darling worked at the festival for two days, ' I ushered for short films and then for a selection of student films from Falmouth University. They were inspirational especially a love story between a man and a woman who he does not realise is deaf. The next day I worked on the information desk and then swapped with someone so that I could usher and watch a film called 'the Glorious 39' set just before World War 2. I got a free t-shirt and I plan to offer my services next year when I hope to show my own film.'


Trengwainton Gardens are on our doorstep across the A30 in Madron. We visited the Gradens for the first time in January to see what connections we could make and how we could offer our skills to the National Trust. The gardens would make a wonderful backdrop for short films or photography projects and the head gardener ,Jan Hoyland, has suggested some ways that we could help with publicity or events that they are planning for this season. One possibility is a poster for 'Wet Nose Day' when visitors will be able to bring their dogs with them. THis will then be used to publicise the day and will go on the web-site. Other possibilities are to prepare a family trail guide to the extensive gardens and to promote a scarecrow making competition for schoolchildren.






We hope that the National Trust will become a regular port of call for our work experience opportunities as they are very active in the local community and the projects we follow will be mutually beneficial. Properties such as Goldolphin and St Micheals Mount are obvious examples but they also own a lot of the coastline and land in the area such as the old mines in the Pendeen and St Just area.

In December we were asked to help out a local community group called the Light and Life centre. They run the 'Motability Penzance' project which helps shoppers with mobility issues to access several scooters from the Wharfside complex. They needed a short video to be made to promote their activities and the service that they provide. The group took video and audio equipment down to the centre and interviewed the organiser and people who have benefited from the Motability scheme. The video is currently being edited together.

An opportunity has arisen to work with a local visual artist Alessanda Ausenda on a new project that will promote the ancient 'Tinners Way' which is a route that linked St Just and Cape Cornwall with St Ives. Heritage funding has been gained and we hope to help with photography and video work or in assisting with events and walks which will be arranged with the local community and primary schools.