Light painting is a photographic technique where you set a camera to a long exposure and use lights to draw pictures or words in the air. It’s a bit like the effect you get when you draw in the air with a sparkler!
This workshop enables the participants to learn how to use a DSLR camera to create a light painting. They will have the chance to experiment with different lights to see the effects that they create and then, working in groups, design their own light paintings. For longer workshops (i.e. longer than 1 day) this can be developed into a stop motion animation.
WHO’S IT FOR
This workshop suits ages 10+, school groups, youth groups, community groups, ideally on workshops of 2 days or more.
WHAT WE BRING
We provide all the equipment including DSLR cameras, tripods, sound equipment, laptops with animation software, a range of lights, from lightsabers to LEDs.
SKILLS LEARNED
Key photography skills (exposure, shutter speed etc) stop motion animation and video editing. It’s develops good communication, team work, confidence building.
Films made by young people on our light painting workshops
Bonfire Night
Futureversity
Light, Paint, Animate!
Geffrye Museum
Lightbox Animation
Whitmore High School
New Perspectives
Imperial War Museums
BOOK A WORKSHOP
We run workshops all year round, for all ages and group sizes. If you’d like to talk to us about booking a workshop just get in touch.
Why Choose Us?
Professional Filmmakers
Our workshops are facilitated by the same filmmakers that create films for Chocolate Films
Latest Equipment
We regularly renew our equipment and software to ensure that all our workshops are run on the latest kit.
Experience With SEN
Our team have all been trained in working with groups with special educational needs.
Flexible Working Methods
As well as our great workshop packages, we can design workshops for any size of group and any time-scale.
DBS Checks
All of our filmmakers have had DBS checks within the last two years.
First Aiders
On all workshops with two or more facilitators, at least one will be a first aider
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TESTIMONIALS
Chocolate Box Screening
Participant Feedback
Islington Youth Offending Team
Walcot Testimonials – Teachers
Being involved in SElect18films/Chocolate Films has helped my recovery beyond any words I can summon, indeed, I struggled so much with social phobia that I doubt I’d been able to express myself before my involvement with Chocolate Films. The filmmaking process has helped me overcome these issues with social phobia and awkwardness and to realise that one of my strengths is actually in social settings with an ability to communicate. A lot of this happened in film planning sessions and later during filming and editing. The sort of change I experienced cannot happen in the normal therapeutic setting I’m used to, it needed the challenging, but safe reallife scenarios of being involved in filmmaking. Social phobias and anxiety is a very common issue for those recovering from substance use dependence and is often the cause of relapse.
Participant SElect18 Films
Thanks for the huge part you played running the I Am Creative programme at The Complete Works during this term. Thanks to Ross and Harriet from Chocolate Films who did a great job of facilitating the sessions. It was so great to have so many creative minds enthusiastically working together to come up with the best possible pitch to B&Q. As the judges said at the final, the work you created was exceptional! Well done again!
Ideas Foundation Assistant Creative Programme Leader
Zosia Mrozek-Folkierska
ACCREDITATION
Chocolate Films Workshops is registered with three major accreditation bodies and we can offer accreditation on many of our workshops.
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