It's been a long long time since I wrote my last blog post excitedly telling everyone that the documentary was finished and exported and finally ready to submit. And you might have been wondering well, where is it? If you have, thank you. It's ready now. I wanted to wait a while after thinking I [...]
The blog has been quiet over the last week but I have a good reason; Losing The Arts is complete! Everyday has been spent editing and re-editing clips, recording voice pieces, searching for sound effects and hassling lovely helpful people (so sorry Elizabeth) so that I could get to this point before the weekend. Let me tell [...]
Since completing all of my interviews and concentrating more on how the documentary will eventually sound I have made the decision to use my interview with Daisy Graham-Brown as an audio feature for my blog rather than including her in my 7 minute piece. I made this decision because she says some lovely and insightful [...]
I decided to ask a variety of people the question 'what do you think the effect of losing the arts from schools would be?' to get a feel for what non-professionals think about the whole possibility. "For some kids, performing arts is just as important to them as English or Maths is to another student and by cutting the [...]
Yesterday I realised I was yet to consider what the effects of losing the arts in schools actually are. And this seems like something I really ought to have done by now. The arts play a very significant role in an education when they are taught to be as important as other subjects like the [...]
Losing The Arts is in the middle of its production process. By now I hoped I would have the majority of my interviews completed, some audio and visual pieces recorded and know the general direction for my documentary to be going in. I might not have quite achieved all of those things just yet but I [...]
Today, Losing The Arts saw a slight shift in direction. Where the documentary originally intended to look at not only schools but also larger groups and organisations around the UK who may have suffered funding cuts, I am now narrowing down the focus to just how cutting down a curriculum to lose Performing Arts or [...]
Artis is about real learning experiences that join together the mind, the heart and the body. Every week Artis helps 50,000 children achieve at school by integrating the arts into their education. The company are a group of fully qualified and talented people who go into primary schools around the country to help children engage [...]
A couple of days ago I met up with 21 year old actress Elizabeth Rigby (Ellie). She has recently finished a UK tour playing the role of Cathy in The Last Five Years (read a review of the performance here) and more recently a production as part of her acting course, Second Person Narrative, where I was fortunate enough to [...]
Yesterday, The Guardian published an article about a proposed London concert hall having a major setback in its progress. The article read that although plans to build a new concert hall on the site of the Museum of London, costing £278million were initially given the go ahead, the Government have now made the decision to withdraw [...]
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