'All right Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up' - Norma Desmond

'Do I have to?' - Me!

BBC White City, 10:30 hours, lights, camera, ACTION!

Myself and several of the PGCE students attended a workshop during half term week on using film in teaching.  We learned experientially (with more guidance, I suspect, than 17 year olds might need) by 'scripting', filming and editing our own short programme.  Our keepers host and tutors for the day were Becky, Xav and Riz (spelling of names unknown, but guessed).

The group I was in, Sam Claire and Lauren, had a hysterical day filming a ridiculous satellite channel film piece about Hagrid's 'beard double'.  We also made a stop frame animation as the title sequence.  I never want to see it again but we had fun making it and learned a lot about using camera, microphone and editing technique.

It was part of a BBC initiative called 21CC - check it out -  http://www.bbc.co.uk/21cc/