Impact template for "Capturing personal stories and becoming a professional filmmaker"

Supports the benchmark "Masterplan Amsterdam Zuid Oost":
Yes
Category Activity Participants Place Time
Youth Learning, Social, Activities Young adults, All residents Test Neighbourhood Permanent
Input What will participants do?

The media program is a 5 monthly educational program for up to eighteen young adult participants from the immediate area of Holendrechtplein and surroundings.

The classes are taught by AV professionals in Dutch and English in the evenings. After satisfactory practical and theoretical completion, participants become junior AV specialists and receive a certificate from the DIA. For some a self-reliant stepping stone to (semi-) professional creator.

 

Output What will happen?

Participants learn to transform their personal stories into images and sound. From theoretical film history to making it themselves. Writing, directing, camera, sound and editing.

Outcome What will change?

Improves skills, strengthen position on the labour market. 

Impact What will be learned?

Participants learn in practical and theoretical terms about their own gaze and that of others. Learning to look and really hear. Participants are given a voice. They matter and participate. Maybe first as a novice professional, but development to an audiovisual specialist.

Work in progress