BFI FILM CLUB SCARBOROUGH
BFI Film Club Scarborough, a film school for young people based in North Yorkshire, offered fun filmmaking opportunities to those who wouldn’t ordinarily have them on their doorstep again in 2023. The new BFI Film Club which launched in Scarborough in 2021 supported up to 20 young people aged 12 -15 years who wanted to find out more about film, develop their skills or try filmmaking for the first time.
BFI Film Clubs are filmmaking courses from the British Film Institute (BFI) in limited towns and cities throughout England in locations identified as 'Opportunity Areas' by the Department for Education (DfE) owing to social and economic challenges. See here for more information. Building on the success of the BFI Film Academy for 16-19 year olds, the course in Scarborough was made possible by funding from BFI, National Lottery and the DCMS Youth Accelerator Fund.
The course encouraged young people to have a go at a range of different filmmaking skills supported by our experienced education team and industry professionals through viewing and talking about film together and covered all the key production stages from development to post-production including camerawork, sound and editing.
What participants did on the course
Had fun completing daily tasks and filmmaking challenges
Were supported to plan and work together to create a mini documentary film in a day as part of a film crew in Dalby Forest
Created animated avatars and mini monsters using claymation and learnt to use Stop Motion Studio software with professional animators at Aardman and Screen Argyll
Got top tips on how to develop ideas and create a moodboard
Found out more about careers and roles in film from industry professionals
Watched and discussed films
Worked with sound to make a film soundtrack
Learnt about camera movements and angles, shot types and how to edit film
Worked as a team to build a walk-in camera obscura and to see how images are created