Overview
We offer 6 week placements for Pre-Neet individuals (Not in Employment, Education or Training) and whom may be
excluded from mainstream education due to a number of factors.
During their placement members will take part in a variety of activities specially structured to maximise interaction. Through
the use of computers for audio and video editing they will obtain additional IT skills. The Drama workshops help develop
communicative skills and boost self confidence.
The experience in a whole should promote a feeling of self confidence and belief within the individual, we believe the impact
of this will give noticeable improvement on behaviour and social interaction.
In Depth
Digital Music Workshop
The digital music workshops would closely tie in and relate to the song creation, scriptwriting and video workshops in order
to produce an overall cohesive and creative experience for participants with a tangible outcome which can taken away in
CD and DVD form.
For the workshops we will be using Sony Acid 6 software which is a P.C. based digital audio recording and editing package.
The advantage of this particular piece of software is that it can utilise pre-recorded samples as loops which can be dropped
into the mixing window within the software and manipulated. The software is easy to use and to get the grips with the basics
takes only a 10-15 minute tutorial session. Participants could work alone or in pairs (using headphone splitters, which allow
two sets of headphones for one computer).
Using this someone with no experience of playing an instrument can build up a track using drum, bass, guitar, keyboard
samples and so on. Not only this but the software allows participants to record, edit and loop their own voices or playing
which could be as basic as using percussion or simple riffs played on guitar, bass or keyboard.
The resulting music created can be incorporated into the video footage as part of the soundtrack. Participants could read
over the script or initial footage taken based on the script writing workshop and could try to tailor music to fit with a
particular theme or emotion expressed within the scenes.
The workshop would be an hour and a half long with a ten minute break midway. The length of time for each session would
allow participants to get a basic grasp of the software and be creative with it but is short enough to prevent them being
bored or feeling uncomfortable using headphones for an extended period of time.
A digital music session would typically be structured like this –
Short tutorial covering basics of software – 10 mins
Participants working on music creation (with tutors guidance) – 30 mins
Short break – 10 mins
Participants working on music creation (with tutors guidance) – 30 mins
Playback of some material created and short evaluation and discussion session -10mins
