What better way is there to encourage young people to come to your museum, gallery or youth club, than to share an online film made by other young people? This allows them to reveal what it is they love about your space from their own perspective.
Chocolate Films offers an exciting course where young people will learn documentary making and marketing skills while working to a brief. Participants will discover how best to research and develop a gripping and well-balanced narrative and learn documentary skills in presentation, interview technique and factual video directing.
WHO’S IT FOR
This workshop suits ages 15+, school groups, youth groups, young people with SEN or disabilities, community groups.
WHAT WE BRING
We provide all necessary still cameras and sound kit, interview technique toolkits, and editing equipment.
SKILLS LEARNED
On this workshop participants learn how to research, plan and film a promo style documentary and edit it into a short film. The workshop develops research and investigative journalism skills, good communication, team work, confidence building.
films made by young people on our promo workshops
CRI Aspire Promo
CRI Aspire
Good Food In Greenwich
GCDA
Southwark Local History Library & Archive
Cuming Museum
How To Visit The Wallace Collection
The Wallace Collection
Platform Documentary
Platform Youth Hub
YBL
The British Library
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.
Behind the Scenes on Chocolate Films Workshops
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