Get Digital

Free Art & Media Skills Workshop

AGES 16-19 YEARS

APPLICATIONS FOR OUR FREE 2024 GET DIGITAL COURSE ARE NOW CLOSED.

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WHAT IS GET DIGITAL?

GET DIGITAL is FREE short course for young people aged 16 – 19 year-olds (or up to 25yrs SEND). Participants get to learn and try different digital and creative skills as they work towards a final project in a safe and supported environment led by professional artists and filmmakers. To give you an idea of what you could make, see our previous projects below!

No previous experience is necessary.

Our Current Get Digital Project

This year’s FREE GET DIGITAL is led by professional Artist, Jack Brown. The short course consisted of seven workshops and will culminate in the group exhibition, ‘Psychogeology‘, launching on Saturday 4th May. Find out more about the exhibition here.

The workshops are exploring themes of rocks, the land, geology, climate crisis, local history, global futures, personal journeys’, Barrow’s landscape and townscape.

Participants are exploring underwater filming, using blue screens, making sculptures, hanging artworks down street grids, writing edible poems, collecting rock samples on field trips, digging holes on the beach, baking marshmallows by a fire, chatting, and more!

As they develop skills in collaboration, film shooting, composition, installation art, research skills, and video editing, participants are shaping a final project and bringing in themes that are important to them. By the end of the workshops, Jack and the participants will have made an artwork that will be displayed in Barrow-in-Furness town centre!

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See the creation process in action with regular updates

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Get Digital with Jack Brown

A Manchester-based visual artist working in (and in the spaces between) sculpture, painting, response to site, print, public action, drawing, photography and video.

Jack worked with year 10 pupils during February and March 2023, exploring the Barrow coastline to create You and Me, Outside. This was the first of a series of artworks produced for our first TIDAL Exhibition One.

Find out more about Jack Brown here.

Get Digital 2023

Get Digital participants created the comedy-thriller short-film, Shock Jock. The film has since been submitted into film festivals around the world and was recently screened at Canada’s Student World Impact Film Festival (SWIFF 2023)!

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A really fun experience for meeting new people and doing something you love!

- Participant feedback

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Why take part in GET DIGITAL?

WHY TAKE PART?

Designed to build up your confidence and technical skills through filmmaking, media and art skills, Get Digital is led by fantastic professional artists and filmmakers. Get Digital has been successfully running for the last five years, working with young people from all across Barrow and South Furness.

You’ll learn brand new skills in filmmaking & creative digital media (or build up any existing ones).

No previous experience is necessary! Just a passion to learn & a willingness to be involved!

Past projects have tackled a variety of different subjects, as students use the medium of film to explore issues young people face around homelessness, mental health, hate crime and autism awareness. Over the past few years Get Digi has brought together young people so we can help empower each other as a team and co-create great ideas and collaborations to produce inspiring short films!

For more details contact: Jo at jo@signalfilmandmedia.co.uk / 01229 838592

GET DIGITAL short films (2018 - 2022)

Check out the short films below created by past Get Digital cohorts and keep reading below to find out a little more about these fantastic productions.

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Feedback from our participants

"I absolutely loved the experience. It was brilliant and just what I needed at the right time - especially with Covid-19 and everything going on at the moment."

"I loved the shoot. It was so weird as I’ve never done anything like that before - apart from messing around with cameras, but it was so good to get to be able to do that and be taught by Adam on how to do it properly."

“I wanted to try lots of different roles, so it was really good. Challenging, but good. I hadn’t ever recorded sounds before properly, so I did that and animated some bits, directed sections.. so it was all really interesting to try it all.”

“It gives me hope that my ambitions are possible, which in turn gives me a purpose and sense of optimism about my future. The friendly environment also makes me feel more accepted, when I often feel like I don’t fit in”

“I think it was really good - a really good experience. I hadn’t done much 3D animation before like stop-motion, I’ve only really done a bit of 2D stuff and it was challenging - not because anyone was difficult to work with of course - just different and new. I just wasn’t used to working collaboratively, so that was really interesting to see how that could work and good to learn.”