Hidden History

Hidden History

Funding Body/Client: Arts Council England, North Lincolnshire Council, The Ropewalk and The Wilderspin National School Museum

Goals: To produce a fun, engaging and modern outlet to learn more about local history, that increases interest in the subject.

Barton upon Humber is a historical treasure trove featuring some of the UK’s key heritage sites, including one of the only remaining Anglo-Saxon buildings. It is also the birthplace of Chad Varah – founder of the Samaritans, and was once home to the world's largest cycle works.

Our aim with Hidden History was to make this diverse and compelling history readily available for Barton visitors and residents. Hidden History Barton is an interactive platform that puts all of this information at your fingertips, so you can experience it whilst exploring the historical locations themselves.

Over a 12 month period, we gathered historical information about the town - facts, personal stories and everything in between. We made some fantastic discoveries, connected with people who have lived through some of Barton’s key periods and poured all of our newfound knowledge into this app. Hidden History tells of this fascinating history through a collection of media including original and authentic photographs, video clips, narration and text.

Hidden History Barton was supported by Arts Council England, North Lincolnshire Council, The Ropewalk and The Wilderspin National School Museum.

Head over to the Hidden History Barton website for more information.

Employment Courses

Employment Courses

Funding Body/Client: Reaching Communities

Goals: Improve employability among disadvantaged young people

Blueprint began delivering employment focused courses over five years ago, and we have continually fine-tuned our practice over the years to achieve the best outcomes for our participants. Over the past two years we have been developing a robust employment programme and developing and delivering our courses for disadvantaged young people across Tower Hamlets and Hackney.

These courses offer young people a chance to experience a real-working environment, giving them a level of responsibility they would not obtain on a training course. By participating, young people gain and develop skills to support them both in the classroom and into the world of employment. Our focus is to develop skills that are useful tools as they take on the employment market, such as creative thinking, presentation, leadership and resilience. All of these are skills are carefully nurtured through an exciting filmmaking process and all our participants have the opportunity to gain Arts Award accreditation.

We very excited to announce that we have just secured three years worth of funding from Reaching Communities to continue our Employment Programme. This money will allow us to continue our work with young people in Tower Hamlets and Hackney and also support them into further training and employment opportunities.

If you are interested in finding out more about our employment courses please contact laura@blueprintfilmfoundation.co.uk

Genesis Community Foundation Project

Genesis Community Foundation Project

Funding Body/Client: The Genesis Housing Association

Goals: To develop skills and increase employability of unemployed young people

The Genesis Housing Association have an ongoing regeneration and development programme in North London, aiding the growth of the Woodberry Down area. As a part of this wider project, Blueprint: Film Foundation were provided with the funding to bring a free 9-week course of filmmaking workshops to unemployed young residents in Woodberry Down.

Over the course of the nine weeks, the candidates learnt basic sound, lighting and camera techniques, as well as script development, storyboarding and finally, editing. Each group made their own short film that they will be able to keep for their portfolios and each candidate gained a valuable Arts Award for their CV. To bring the project to a close, all groups got together with their friends, family and members of the local community at a screening of all the films.

The screening provided a great opportunity for the students to get feedback on their work and discuss what they learnt over the duration of the course.

Film in a Week – Talent Quest

Film in a Week – Talent Quest

Funding Body/Client: Shooting Fish

Goals: To support children in care in making their own short film

Blueprint: Film Foundation collaborated with Shooting Fish on their Film in a Week project. Following his work on our similar film project, David Brook handled the production of the film, working with a group of children in care to write, produce and shoot a short film entitled ‘Talent Quest’. The children had the opportunity to star in the film too, which was then edited together by David, ready to be screened at the care home.

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Ghost Story App

Ghost Story App

Funding Body/Client: Awards For All

Goals: To develop media and interpersonal skills as well as community cohesion

Through Awards For All funding, we helped a variety of local community groups produce a series of short ghost story films. These all tell of local legends surrounding ghosts and hauntings in the city of Lincoln.

These groups included hard to reach young people from EYS (Education Youth Services), who devised and created a short film about hauntings in the Theatre Royal. Another group from X-Church's Slumgothic youth club in Gainsborough produced a film about the various apparitions spotted on Greestone Steps.

The films will become part of an interactive treasure hunt app, where users will solve clues to find each spooky location in Lincoln and, through the magic of modern technology, when they get there, their phone/tablet will display a film telling the eerie tale of what took place in that very spot.

Quote: Mary Ward-Lowery - volunteer “We loved the films - first one genuinely a bit scary, lots of great, natural acting in the longer one. Great stuff - v proud of those who took part..”

Georgina Akim Hubble-Simpson - participant “Had a great time and the results were much slicker and more professional than I expected.”