Projects

Signals Media Arts Centre regularly works with organisations on media projects. In recent years we have worked many groups including; children of offenders, excluded students in pupil referral units, gifted and talented children, looked after young people and homeless adults.

Current Projects

Signals has just finished a short film called ‘Anticipation Animation’ working with the filmmaker Emma Curtis and pupils form Perry fields School in Chelmsford.  This short animation captures the excitement of anticipation and will be shown at venues around Essex as part of the Sparks Will Fly events in 2012.

Signals is working on a project with the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to help local children create a film that captures and responds to the objects in the China Gallery.

Our latest educational project has taken us all the way to China to work with ten students from the Gilberd School in Colchester.

During the February half term, year 9 students from the Gilberd School were taken on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to China as part of the Eastern Exchanges -  Stories of the World project. This was arranged in partnership with Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service who have connections with the Nanjing Museum in China. The ten students were each asked to choose a priceless artifact from the collection at the Nanjing Museum before their trip, and Signals Media Arts Centre’s Education Co-ordinator, Lisa Wright, provided production training for the group and also accompanied the group to China to document the experience.

The group travelled from Beijing, to Nanjing to Shanghai in 8 days, visiting many famous places including Tianamen Square, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China and the Confucius Temple. The trip was an amazing experience involving sleeping in an overnight train, visiting a Chinese school, watching a classical opera and trying lots of weird and wonderful food! The final film is currently being post produced and the group are working hard on finishing their Arts Awards.