Author: Chris Haydon

Chris Haydon is an award-winning broadcast professional and director/managing Trustee of Community TV Trust. When not engaged with the Trust's activities and project development, Chris produces and directs videos and programming for tx, web and corporate markets.

LONDON YOUNG VOICES

Following an excellent trial with Goose Green Primary School, two secondary schools, a primary schools and Southwark’s SILS 3, the Peckham pupil referral unit, all committed to this Community TV Trust initiative which has been running throughout the autumn. The full London Young Voices project began in mid-September and will go through to early December 2009 with all work produced being exhibited in the new Peckham Space from April 2010. The project workshops were held over a ten week period, with video tutors working alongside staff both in curriculum and after school. At Peckham Academy local artist Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre will work with tutor Alison McCloskey and a teacher, exploring the theme of neighbour and neighbourhood.

Both Peckham Academy and St Michael And All Angels schools were visited last week by Mutah Beale aka Napoleon during his week long visit to Southwark. Various video reports are to be uploaded onto YouTube shortly.

PENSIONS FOR ALL !

CTVT has completed post production on a wonderful primary school project

CTVT has completed post production on a wonderful primary school project creating a one-act opera celebrating the centenary of the state pension. Southwark had a key role in bringing that about. Ten years campaigning by Revd. Herbert Stead of Walworth led to Parliament enacting a Bill which gave old people ‘5 bob a week’ (now 25p !).

But it was a start. CTVT was commissioned to film the performance of PENSIONS FOR ALL ! at St Peter’s Church in Walworth in April this year. Our camera crew comprised two boys from Goose Green Primary School and a media student on work experience – working alongside Chris Haydon of CTVT.

We shot both performances – one on three cameras – and the production is available, fully subtitled, on DVD from Southwark Pensioners Action Group.

Three local primary schools created the libretto and melodies, played in the orchestra and sang: Robert Browning, St John’s and St Peter’s Primary Schools.

SKIPPERING

SKIPPERING is a film about homelessness made by those that know a great deal about it – the homeless. Local filmmakers have brought the vision to life.

CTVT has supported and worked with former volunteer Stuart MacLennan who has created and directed a film about homelessness.

SKIPPERING was made with a group of homeless men as the actors. Community TV Trust is enormously grateful to all who volunteered their time and talents, and in particular St Mungo’s and its hostel in Great Guildford Street SE1 for their long term commitment to this project.

The result is a half hour film of which all participants, both in front of and behind the camera, can be proud. As soon as information about a screening for this new film is available it will be published on this website.

Alongside Stuart were Jessicah, Joe, Genevieve and Chris who all gave of their time plus enormous amounts of enthusiasm and skill.

SOUTHWARK HOUR Brian Paddick meets Peckham boys

A documentary made by Southwark TV featuring London mayoral candidate Brian Paddick on a visit to meet five excluded young black boys from Peckham.

paddick001A documentary made by Southwark TV featuring London mayoral candidate Brian Paddick on a visit to meet five excluded young black boys from Peckham. In a valuable meeting, Paddick learns much from the young guys.
This programme was first seen on the Community Channel.

 

 

“SOUTHWARK.TV”

In late 2002 Community TV Trust launched its flagship project “Southwark.TV” which is PSB-nouveau … media by the people of the people for the people.

In late 2002 Community TV Trust launched its flagship project “Southwark.TV” which is PSB-nouveau … media by the people of the people for the people. Public service media par excellence. It is a web-based venture and has so far drawn together over 50 community organisations and schools across the Borough of Southwark in a focussed project to provide training and project support that may also turn consumers into producers. This is what technology has made possible and what efforts at empowering the disadvantaged desire.

New media must be involved in any consideration of PSB. Ofcom thinking has opened out – ‘national’ debate now includes ‘local’, broadcasting sits side by side with the internet and broadband. And mobile telephony too.

The public are involved, we are all media producers now. From what I see, communication is multiple, multi-faceted and multimedia. Media is, after all, the content offered in a communication, whether to broadband, a telephone or the post office, for delivery as a service …

I think we are on the edge of integrated PSB operating across traditional and new media platforms to serve in a focussed and educational way those who we know are ‘hard to reach’. What is better for PSB than to work side by side with PSM ?