Skinningrove Digital Village

The Force is With You

Steve T — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:51:16 +0000

The community animation event in Saltburn on Thursday was a tremendous successes with a full house for the matinee (in which we hooked up with children and police in Latvia) and around 80 people for the evening event. We even made it onto Latvian National TV !

You can relive the event on the blog at www.saltburn.org.uk or if you really want to re-run the event in the order it happened click here ( it builds slow but quickly gets media rich) – just read each page, scrolling down and then click “older entries” at the bottom. As well as the hook-up with Latvia, the event was followed by people in Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey, Sweden, Finland and the UK.

The event saw the world premier of “The Force is With You” which you can enjoy below.

Animex Fringe Event Goes International

Steve T — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:10:18 +0000

With the assistance of Northern Film and Media and the UK Film Council there will be a Fringe Animex event in Saltburn featuring community produced animations. This will take place at 7.30pm on February 11^th at Saltburn Community Theatre, Albion Terrace, Saltburn, TS12 1JW.

Featured this year will be World Première of “The Force is With You” which has been produced in partnership with the Institute of Digital Innovation, the Skinningrove Community, Whitecliffe Primary School and Redcar & Cleveland Community Safety Partnership. The school children will get their own matinee screening at 1.30 on the same date.

During a recent International workshop in Vienna one of scenes in “The Force is With You” was “voiced” using the services of some of the workshop attendees. The film clip below is a sneak preview of one of the scenes and a behind the scenes look at how it was put together.

Trouper 1 is played by Markus Petz from Finland, Trouper 2 by Thomas Chepaitis the Minister of foreign affairs of Uzhupis Republic (Lithuania) Arthur Vador is played by Steve Thompson and Barry Hunt the Mayor of Loftus is camera operator.

In the background is Laura Pakalne, Senior Officer in the Public Relations Department in the Ministry of Justice, Latvia who is most interested in our working with the British police and the movie production team on more collaborative projects. Markus has delayed his return to Finland to travel to Saltburn to assist with a hook-up with Latvia during the event on the 11^th. It’s quite possible that people all over the world will be able to participate in the event. More information on this will be released closer to the event.

The Need For Jetties World Wide

Barry Hunt — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:58:36 +0000

I am currently at a workshop in Vienna about video bridging,I have discused a project about a jetty in my home community that has been badly neglected.Yesterday when I was watching the news it spoke of the people in Haiti not being able to land urgently needed supplies by sea as the jetty was not strong enough to support the wweight of the containers.This i think relates to my plan to regenerate old jetties bring them back to life and give them a purpus.

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The Need For Jetties World Wide

Barry Hunt — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:58:30 +0000

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Merry Xmas

Steve T — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:49:11 +0000

Institute of Digital Innovation Xmas Card from IDI on Vimeo.

No prizes for identifying the voice of the Geordie, Elvis Santa Clause.

I came across some pages from Christmas 2000. This was when the only public computer was in 14 Stone Row and the flood defences were just being built. This makes an interesting record of the time. Click here.

Master Builder

Steve T — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:41:30 +0000

Yesterday I watched a craftsman, Paul Li, at work. I learned so much just watching and was inspired to improve my own build. The Skinningrove set is well on it’s way now as you can see by visiting http://slurl.com/secondlife/TeesLife/110/185/148 or looking at the accompanying pictures. You’ll see by one of the pics I’ve added a production trailor, gotta keep the crew comfy. Dates for shooting will be early in the New Year and will be published shortly.

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Wanted !!!!

Steve T — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:04:27 +0000

http://straad.org.uk/arthur-arrives/

mosaic

Barry Hunt — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:02:10 +0000

This is just to update the mosaic story.

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: A few words on Rosecroft Mosaic

Barry Hunt — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:10:57 +0000

Congratulations to Barry and Tom for rescuing the old Rosecroft School mosaic and bringing it home to Skinningrove. It represents a bit of the Village’s history and means that future generations will enjoy looking at it in the same way as past generations of Rosecoft pupils.

Dr Ashok Kumar M.P.

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Helping With Enquiries

Barry Hunt — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:08:20 +0000

In the event of trying to catch the villain Arthur Vader we have had to pull Santa in for questioning because he knows who has been naughty boys this year .We hope this helps us as we dont want to go down the road of interviewing all his little helpers.The Force is with you. Barry Hunt.

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