Jul '01 19

The next Summer School project called ‘Emotions’ has begun with a new batch of ‘Researchers’ had to ‘tell an emotional’ story about a word. Each child picked one word out of a hat out of a possible 100 words. The first challenge, in groups of 4, was to decide which of the words picked out of the hat by the groups members should be made into a film.

In groups the young people will need to decide from the words they have pulled at random, which of these will they make a film about? This challenge requires the groups to bond quickly in order to being their tough challenge.

The film had to last for no more than 3 minutes, have a suitable soundtrack, loop and contain the word and names of the Researchers involved in the movie.

2001res.gif

If the films created by the young people are good enough they will be included in a DVD production and displayed at the V&A museum in December.

This project is funded for the second year by SEEVEAZ, the South East of England Virtual Education Action Zone.

Jan '01 19

On 19 January 2001 the very creative SEEVEAZ Summer School researchers came together at Burnham-on-Crouch Lifeboat Station to assist with Ultralab’s joint project with the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) to come up with ideas how the lifeboat service could be made ‘cool’ in the eyes of young people.


lifeboats31.gif

Ultralab used the research findings to embark on the ‘lifeboats.tv’ project in conjunction with the education department of the RNLI.

lifeboats51.gif

The Summer School researchers came up with a variety of ideas which led to the launch of Lifeboats.TV, the biggest video based website on the Internet, and home of the ‘Virtual Lifeboat Station’. 467 movies were created and made available in various formats.

lifeboats41.gif

Lifeboats.TV ran for three years and is now offline, research complete.

lifeboats21.gif

Team:
Stephen Heppell (Ultralab)
Matthew Eaves (Ultralab)
James Vaughan (RNLI)
Anne Millman (RNLI)

The below films will take some time to load, please be patient:

icon for podpress  Watch the RNLI project movie, with early Matthew Eaves and Colin Elsey footage.: Play Now | Play in Popup
icon for podpress  Watch 180 people the movie - made by Matthew Eaves this film includes nearly everyone who was a part of the Lifeboats.TV project.: Play Now | Play in Popup
icon for podpress  Filmed and made in Burnham this film was created to initiate the project vision.: Play Now | Play in Popup
icon for podpress  Also by George, a dramatic cut using RNLI archive footage: Cut 21 Movie. It was made from a lot of archive training video footage, the objective to demonstrate to the RNLI that existing footage could be recycled.: Play Now | Play in Popup