ARD 604 Creative Futures. Young persons health and well being conference. Shrewsbury F.C

Creative Futures

Young people's health and well being conference

As a member of The Wrexham Film and Photography Collective we were asked to cover this years conference being held at Shrewsbury F.C Football Stadium. The conferences aim was to educate the younger generation about the importance of health and well being within their own lives. 

Our brief was to capture the day in the form of two films, one being three minutes to upload to the Youtube website and the other was to be seven minutes which will be screened throughout the local colleges and all around the council websites. Another part of the brief was to capture an overall feel of the day in the form of still images. I was responsible for both the film side and also the photography side. My images were to be used in the Shropshire press the following week.

Below are a selection of the images that I sent for publication.

With reference to the taking of images there were a couple of hurdles to overcome, the first being the images that the organisers required. Initially I found it difficult to portray the day with just a hand full of pictures, but I feel that I delivered what was required. The second being the quality of light within the venue itself. The poor light resulted in having to use a high ISO setting on my DSLR with resulted in grainy or noisy images. This was fixed in Adobe Lightroom by boosting the sharpness and luminance settings.

Initially I felt a bit nervous about the day but once we had met the organisers and got going everything seemed to fall into place nicely. We filmed the workshops and also a drama presentation. The drama section was delivered by a couple of young actors call Mat Farmer and Jodie Bree who run a company called Loud Mouth and attend such talks and conferences in order to get the message about health and bullying across to the youngsters in the form of a drama workshop.

Mat Farmer and Jodie Bree from Loudmouth

I really enjoyed the day filming and photographing the event at the football stadium. I also used one of my music tracks for the background music that I wrote and edited in Logic music editing software. I feel that my music ties everything together nicely. Below is the link to the completed video that we produced for Shropshire Council.

Young persons health and well being conference video.