Tees Valley Community Media

Click on image to enlarge. Animators at Freebrough Engineering College are hard at work on week two of a series of animation workshops with the University of Teesside's Community Media Coordinator. Click here to see more images from the session.

Pupils from the Sacred Heart School in Redcar are working with various schools and departments of the University of Teesside on a new project called the Forensic Challenge. The idea builds on the "Community Challenge" which began life as an online pub quiz. In the first ever online pubquiz Timms Coffee House in Skinningrove beat the Black Bull in Trimdon who were sporting Prime Minister Tony Blair as a member of their team. Archives of the Community Challenge here.

Later using software developed by Dave Eagle of the Univerity of Teesside's School of Computing and working in partnership with BECTA (British Educational Communications Technologies Agency) various other challenges took place. These included a Euro-Challenge and a 52 team "Challenge the Nation" right across the UK.

Now the Sacred Heart pupils are bringing this right up to date by making the content of an online quiz a Crime Scene Investigation. The components of this challenge will include, images, video footage, interrogations and geographial information through satelite images and googlemaps.

Graham performs the music track for the groups animation "Diversity Dave". (Click Image To Enlarge)

Over the past few weeks the group have been working at Skelton Civic Centre to create their masterpiece which you will be able to see soon on this site. To whet your appetite Click here for behind the scenes action

A wonderful day was spent at Skelton Village Hall producing four animations in a day long animation workshop. Four teams worked to produce 4 different animations which are collectively known as "Aliens on the Beach". You can view the finished production by Clicking Here

You can view pictures from the day by clicking here

The Princes Trust team at Redcar Fire Station talk about their sets and their production plans for a couple of animated films they are making.