James’ production shots for ‘Maximum Overdrive’ sweded movie trailer.
The media group working on the sweded movie project.
Media projects
Lapwing run a range of media projects throughout the year for our young people to get involved in. These are fantastic opportunities to get creative, develop social skills, work in a team and develop some technical skills.
Sweded Movie projects (July 25 & January 23)
Sweded (Urban dictionary): Re-making something from scratch using whatever you can get your hands on!
In July 25 James’ sweded movie trailer was produced after a 6-month labour of love involving production paperwork, planning, shooting and editing. James learned and applied set design, model making, chroma key ("green screen"), rag doll / puppetry work, forced perspective planning and lots more! James’s remake of ‘Maximum Overdrive’ can be viewed here.
In January 23 four students successfully produced their own sweded movies. This involved plenty of team work as well as making models, set creation, practical effects, in-shot tracking (a type of animation), chroma key or “green screen”, video layering, audio editing, forced perspective and live action.
Lily produced ‘Thunderbirds’ - to watch click here.
Alfie, CJ and Stevie produced ‘The Conjuring’ - to watch click here.
Lapwing’s Docudrama project (July 22)
Three students teamed up to write, act in, direct, edit and produce their own video creations inspired by Suffolk myths and legends. Click on the links to watch:
Zac’s Story: The Rendlesham Coincidences
Lapwing’s Minding The Gap video
Click here to watch a video about Lapwing’s Minding The Gap project. This short film was created by young people, directed by young people and stars young people (Dec 2021). The Minding The Gap project provided personalised support to 15-24 year olds to enable them to move towards education, employment or training.
The first ever Lapwing podcast! (Jan 2021)
Throughout November and December 2020 seven Lapwing students joined forces to work collectively on creating, editing and producing ‘The Mixture Podcast’ as part of Lapwing’s six week group media project. This was a great opportunity for them to develop their digital, creative, social and communication skills and enabled them to bring their interests to the fore to create an eclectic mixture of