School Resources

Many of the resources a school will need to make it’s film or digital artwork are contained on this page. The links are for review purposes only. A participating school will be able to download a complete set of resources from the project OneDrive account. The address is tenpieces@outlook.com and schools will be given a password. NB: Text in black is a web-link.

Project-Pointers: Provides classroom activity ideas, links to other school videos and information about copyright-free music.

The Derek Evans Studio archive: A taste of the archive and some of the stories it holds.

Media Pack for iPad: Includes tips on composition and interview technique.

Oral History guide to interviewing

iPad Apps for Film-making

Case Study: Teacher Sarah George, who used the archive as a cross-curricular method for her Year 4 pupils, shares her thoughts on the project.

Interview release form: Anyone who has been interviewed for your film (from outside the school), needs to complete this consent form.

Teachers checklist: Ensures the film meets funding and legal criteria to be shown across the county

Acknowledgement logos sheet and Acknowledgement text: Contains funder’s logos which need to be at the end of each film.

Photographs

Photos: Use these as your starting point. Contact Julia with images you would like to use and new can send high-resolution copies.

Herefordshire History: Herefordshire Library’s fantastic website is packed with archive images and newspapers illustrating the history of Herefordshire.

Video

These video clips can be used as research or included within your film.
Shorter Interviews

Longer interviews
Video Clips
Hop-picking related interviews

Heritage Films

Examples of local heritage films produced by Catcher Media.
Chewing the Cud: Memories from Hereford’s Old Livestock Market.
The Close in Living Memory: Oral Histories of the Cathedral Close
Rediscover: Young People Uncover the Heritage of Bloxwich (featuring Noddy Holder of 1970’s rock band Slade)

MACE Archive

A great website with lots of archive films relating to Herefordshire life. MACE have kindly agreed that we can use some of their films for this project. Contact them here.

Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre (HARC):

Particpating schools will be invited to visit HARC in Rotherwas to see negatives, glass negatives, prints and log books from the Derek Evans archive.

Learning pack

A physical pack can be loaned to schools which contains older pre-digital SLR cameras, strips of film, a pinhole camera and old-fashioned lenses with instruction booklets. These items are to encourage the children to think about composition, levels of skill required for taking analogue photographs and changes in technology since the 1950s.

Contact

If you would like to involve your school contact Julia or Mark.