Are you aged between 13 and 19?
Freehand are planning to deliver some training sessions at FACT later on in the year and we want to know what you want to learn.
If you could take part in a training day at FACT for young people, what would it be in? These are a few ideas but please tell us your own.
Photoshop? Final Cut Pro? Camera Skills? Website/Computer Game Design?
Please tell us by commenting below or tweeting @Freehand_FACT
THANK YOU! 
The Hunger Games: Review
The Hunger Games is originally a novel yet has a film adaptation: it is set in a fantasy post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem there is a rich centre named ‘Capitol’ surrounding is 12 small districts. Due to an anti-government rebellion each of these 12 districts must offer one boy and one girl to take part in ‘The Hunger Games’ as a punishment, each will fight to the death until only one is left victorious.
Strong female protagonist Katniss Everdeen, from district 12, is not chosen; yet volunteers in her younger sisters place. Along with fellow district 12 inhabitant: Peeta Mellark they are both taken to the capital to train for the gruesome game show.
The film set the record for the third best opening weekend box office sales and remained in first place at the box office for 4 consecutive weeks.
Much controversy has surrounded the film despite its positive reviews from critics, people may argue that the age rating of 12A is not appropriate as the film covers many sensitive issues that minors may struggle with; the most obvious being death of other children the same age as the possible viewers, less noticeable but still there is the issue of segregation in how each district is separated. Young children may not understand this, causing problems.
The previous speculations to the similarities between ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Battle Royale’ as novels have now arose once again, however they have been mostly regarded as coincidence and unimportant when contrasting with how there themes also differ.
The film contains many possible allegories to issues such as politics, religion and how the world may work in general, these are seen to be intentional as the original novel is said to be taken from themes of reality television, Roman games and the Iraq war, yet none are brought to an indefinite conclusion.
As a film Jennifer Lawrence(Katniss) is credited for her performance. As is Josh Hutcherson(Peeta) winning two awards: ‘Breakthrough Performer of the Year’ and ‘Next Mega Star’. The soundtrack is in fact one of just 16 soundtracks to grace the top slot in the history of the Top 200.
In conclusion the film is a semi-violent tale with underlying themes that however being executed very well and in good taste may not be suitable for minors, A sequel based off the second book in the trilogy is scheduled for November 22nd 2013 I myself am already waiting in excitement, however hoping it doesn’t become a Twilight-like gimmick.
Hi everybody,
we are delighted to reveal the four films that were made as part of our First Light Film Commission.
we would like to thank Jackie Passmore and Alex Harrison who were our film mentors on this project and our fantastic facilitators Trish Hallam and Adam Cain, who kept everyone in order! I’d also like to thank Liverpool Youth Service, especially Tracy Ramsey & Patrick Graham-Patrick got so into it that he features in two of the 4 films!
They all gave 110% to the project and I think you can really tell by the quality of the films. The biggest thanks must go to the brilliant young filmmakers that we have here tonight. Their commitment, ideas and positive attitude meant that the project was fun, valuable and we created some brilliant films.
Of course, I must also thank First Light who funded us to deliver this project-they are funded by the national lottery-so keep on buying those lotto tickets!
The project ran over 7 weekends covering the whole filmmaking process, from idea development all the way through to editing.
So let’s see the films!
Et voila!
FACT & Freehand present 4 First light films.
These films were made by young people aged between 13 and 19 under the guidance of professional filmmakers. Supported by the Lottery through the BFI’s First Light Initiative.
To find out how you can get involved visit www.firstlightonline.co.uk
SWEET LITTLE THING
This piece of video art follows a little girl who seems to be in demand. She has three fiendish characters chasing her through a multi-coloured backdrop.
THE GUARDIAN
A love story set in the everyday setting of a Newsagent. The two in question seem to like each other but do they control their own fate? There is a mysterious man who seems to have control……
THE ENVELOPE
A quirky comic strip following the exciting destiny of a young woman and her briefcase. Everybody wants what she has but why? And will they get it?
SHADOWS
A moving film about a young woman who finds herself faced with her past through an ominous door. She goes through the door but where will it take her?
CRASH!
Freehand worked in collaboration with We Colonised the Moon (Hagen Betzwieser Germany and Sue Corke UK) whose piece Enter at own Risk was part of our Winter exhibition Republic of the Moon.
The premise of the project was to create Moon landing buggies, but we would be designing them ultimately for disaster….
‘The moment of landing is the most precarious. When we send machines into space a crash is what we fear the most. Massive investments of time and resources in technology, hope and ambition, obliterated. But in art failure can be a beautiful concept, the stimulus of new possibilities, an iconic dramatic pivot.’
WE COLONISED THE MOON
We planned to design and make these buggies and film the crashes in high speed HD. Hagen and Sue even built a special catapult to fling the buggies!
Please watch our documentary of the project and the final, beautiful crashes.
Here is David’s painted music video. Mixing traditional art form painting with film and music-we love it!
Phew! We’ve had a super busy couple of months with our First Light Filmmaking Commission and our Republic of the Moon project.
1. We are now coming into the last couple of weeks of our First Light Commission where we are making 4 short films with filmmakers Jackie Passmore and Alex Harrison.
The four films are shaping up to be brilliant and our young filmmakers have had a chance to get to grips at all stages of film production.
2. MOON! Our exhibition ‘Republic of the moon’ is coming to an end and we had a great time working with artists Hagen and Sue, otherwise known as ‘we colonised the moon’. We designed moon landing rovers and buggies that we knew we were going to crash. With this in mind, we designed fabulous rovers that had golden egg shells filled with glitter, moon dust and even balloons. Sue and Hagen then designed a catapult to crash the rovers with and we filmed the crashes in High Speed HD, meaning the results were in intricate slow motion. We can’t wait to see the finished film and the documentary we made along the way and we’ll share them with you as soon as we have them.
During half term we screened the original movie files of the crashes and asked our expert panel to judge their favourites. Our panel included….Sue and Hagen (of course), the Freehanders, Omar Kholeif (FACT Curator), Rob La Frenais (Arts Catalyst Curator-Arts Catalyst co-commissioned the exhibition) and Andy Newsam (Reader in Astro-Physics Education at LJMU.)
http://sugru.com/blog/
This is right up Freehand’s street!
This looks very exciting, a delicious series of fantastic silent movies.
Just check out the link below to find out more.
Hi Freehanders and friends of Freehand!
CONGRATULATIONS ON A FANTASTIC 2011 IN FREEHAND!
Just a quick note to say well done and thank you for all your excellent ideas and hard work at Freehand this year, we’ve had an excellent year, here are a few of the highlights…..
-Film Nation films, a lot of new young people joined Freehand after taking part in our Olympic inspired film making workshops. What made it even more special was that ‘Fight or Flight’ was nominated at the ‘Film Nation 2011 National Film Awards, although we didn’t win, we had a great day in London and it was fantastic to be nominated.
-2011 brought us the first Freehand Internships we’ve ever had, and they were FANTASTIC! Fran and Trish have been with us for 6 months and they really have been amazing at running our weekly sessions-so big thanks to them! Fran and Trish will come back in January for a farewell session as their internships have ended and they will moving onto pastures new-good luck FranTrish Freehand!
-YLFN, of course! We worked SO hard on this amazing competition, we are very proud-Freehand showed the region what fantastic and talented young people they are.
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| Hope all of our friends have a fabulous festive period,
see you all in the new year for a marvellous 2012! Louise and all of the Freehanders |
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