DiGi50+
DiGi50+ Making the digital world work for you
DiGi50+ is a new initiative supporting people living in rural communities to get more out of computers, the internet and being online.
Media19 delivered a programme of training workshops and events in using computers, digital media, sharing and using the web across Northern England in Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Northumberland. Developing people’s skills and awareness of the possibilities that the internet and digital media can offer to those living in rural areas and with previous limited knowledge or experience.
The website also contains learning tools to help people make more use of media sharing, email, the web and working with photographs from a digital camera.
Funded through the Transformation Fund via the three northern screen agencies, Northern Film and Media, Northwest Vision and Media and Yorkshire Screen, the project developed its own website to support the learning and to encourage people to take part and make their own contribution about their life in the country.
See www.digi50.org
Tommy Hair
Tommy Hair, who died suddenly last week whilst filming in Bangladesh for Sport Relief, was a great friend, colleague and hugely talented sound engineer who worked with Media 19 alongside Director/Cameraman Nick Oldham and Producer Belinda Williams on virtually all of Media 19’s productions.
His contribution to our work has been considerable. Tommy was such a generous, kind and considerate person with a brilliant sense of humour and an unrivalled ability to make everyone feel at ease.
As a sound recordist, Tommy was able to work within any situation and he was always sensitive to all locations, communities and individuals who were involved in our productions, he is greatly missed.
We have lost a true friend and colleague and send our deepest sympathies to his beloved Joanne, Tom and Hetty.
Self Portrait UK - TV
Devised, produced and delivered by Media19, Self Portrait UK is our hugely successful cross-platform project that got people from across the UK involved in producing films, photographs, paintings and writing as a way of expressing their own identity and personality.
Self Portrait Young Parents
A project that gives a voice to young parents living in the urban and coastal districts of East Northumberland using photography and video to tell their stories and reveal the realities of life as a young teenage mum – the good times and the bad - being scared, vulnerable, desperate, depressed but also incredibly optimistic and stoic.
My Life Stories
An online project for Looked After Young People and their carers to create a space on a dedicated website, www.mylifestories.org allowing them to add and collect memories and experiences and produce their own life stories.
Comic Relief
Produced for Comic Relief as part of the Global Campaign for Education to get young people across the world to lobby the G8 leaders and support every child’s right to go to school.
Self Portrait Refugee
Developed from our flagship project Self Portrait UK, and to help combat the mostly negative images and press coverage in Britain, Self Portrait Refugee allowed Refugee & Asylum Seekers to make a creative statement about who they are, how they want to be seen and reveal their own experiences, hopes and dreams for the future.
Millenium Movies
An award winning series of films featuring a selection of visions for the new Millennium as submitted by the public including; a plea for all alleged WW1 deserters who were executed, to be pardoned; a Buddhist’s view on the new Millennium and; a single woman’s view on life and her desire to be just single.
