What is the story?

An exciting participatory arts project created by twelve nominated students from Matravers School, Westbury & Jill Carter, Social Engagement Artist. Exploring the theme of identity, the lads directed and undertook a series of performative journeys. Using a collection of found objects (toys), they set out to explore a world of work & play, responding to folk, everyday situations and environments along the way. The hugely creative process was documented with photography, film, drawings, dialogue & journals. There was potential to unearth, stories to unfold and dreams of a large rabbit, clown and group of black sheep ... finding their way, discovering new friends, standing out from the crowd, and truly becoming somebody!

Sunday, 10 July 2011

5 Black Sheep visit BBC Studios, London

On 30th June 2011 Mr Oakley took Quest2 to the BBC Studios for an event called "Cue, Lights, Action". We met at school at 06:15 and boarded the mini-bus. After a funny journey to London we arrived at West Brompton at 09:10. We then caught the underground to White City where we walked to the BBC Studios. We went upstairs and were told to go to the Conference Room. We then met a character from the Eastenders spin-off E20. We also met the scriptwriter. We were shown a slideshow about the top 10 tips of scriptwriting.

Jacob, where next?

After this we were shown a scene of E20 and were then told we were to write and act out the next scene.We were being filmed as well and then showing the other kids the video, typically the video camera ran out of battery which resulted in us using the flip camera. We filmed our scene and went back into the room and discussed what we had achieved. The technician couldn't get the flip camera to work with his computer so me and Eden had to explain what happened to everyone from the front of the room. It was now the end of the day and time to go home. We caught the underground to West Brompton and boarded the minibus for the journey back to school. Thank you to Mr Oakley for giving up his day to drive us to and from London.

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