Get Digital

Filmmaking & Media Skills for 16-19 Year Old's

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR OUR 2023 COURSE

WHAT IS GET DIGITAL?

GET DIGITAL is a FREE filmmaking short course for young people aged (16 – 19 year-olds or up to 25yrs SEND).

In 2023 we’ll be learning filmmaking skills before creating a short film! This is a month-long course taking place on Wednesdays from 11am – 4pm throughout August.

No previous experience is necessary.

Participants get to learn & try different crew roles as part of this course in a safe and supported environment.

To give you an idea of what you could make, watch the video below – short film Shock Jock is a comedy-thriller about a DJ who resorts to controversy to get much-needed higher ratings!

Shock Jock has since been submitted into film festivals around the world and was recently screened at Canada’s Student World Impact Film Festival (SWIFF 2023)!

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

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Selected Gallery of Get Digital photos 2020-2022

WHY TAKE PART?

Designed to build up your confidence and technical skills through filmmaking it’s 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 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.”