High Horizons

Workshops

All sessions will start with ice breakers and warm up exercises this is to relax everybody mentally and physically and reduce any inhibitions they may have. During the warm up the class concentrates, a positive start helps everyone to get down working in a business like manner.

SCRIPT TO SCREEN

This is our most popular and specialist workshop, it can be adapted to suit primary through to sixth form pupils. This workshop introduces people into the world of screen acting. We explore the journey of taking a script onto the screen, casting and roles in production. They will be given a real life script to read and break down; they will look in detail at characters and directions. They will create their own story boards. Explore different camera shots and be given a real insight into the secrets of screen acting.

ISSUE BASED

We will devise a workshop covering ANY issues that you feel that need discussing and exploring as a group for example, bullying, lateness, anti - social behaviour alcohol and drug abuse. Our most popular to date is our Anti-Bullying workshop, which is supported by the Anti–Bullying Allianceand Childline. We explore all different types of bullying – Verbal, Mental and Physical. We perform several role plays for them to observe and distinguish the different types of bullying.

They will participate in games to show the effects that bullying has. Building on from this they will create short improvisations to show how they think the issue is tackled. This workshop thoroughly supports National Curriculum requirements and fits exactly within the unit of work on ‘Friendship and Bullying’.

The above workshop was so well received that you may have seen us on Granada Reports Television.

BIG SCHOOL BIG DEAL

This workshop is to support young people in the transition from Primary School to Secondary School. It can be very daunting for parents, not to mention pupils undergoing this big change.

This workshop will aid your child into gaining confidence, being able to mix with others, team work and coach them to adopt a positive attitude to overcome their fears of entering secondary educationOur aim for all our workshops, first and above all is enjoyment. Then comes a wide range of other benefits that we believe young people can gain from drama…. It provides an outlet for self expression and helps the development of imagination and artistic awareness. It increases social awareness (particularly through role play), mental awareness, and fluency of speech, self knowledge, self respect, self discipline and self confidence. Our workshops will give young people the opportunity to learn how to co-operate with others and help develop orderly thinking and the ability to organise.

The games in each session will improve physical fitness and co-ordination. It may also have a therapeutic effect through helping the group members to deal with their own real life problems, or a cathartic effect by enabling them to act out violence and frustration. Using drama as a vehicle our workshops will provide social and moral training and help the young people mature emotionally, preparing them for adult life.

DRAMA WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

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FILM MAKING

In 2005 we worked on a nine month project in collaboration with Pidgin Productions at Toxteth Tv in Liverpool. Gifted and Talented chose 250 young people from different schools across Merseyside to be a part of a poject which involved them creating, writing, producing, acting and editing their own short film.
Throughout this period we coached them and appeared in their film which was premiered in October 2005 in Saint Georges Hall in Liverpool. One of the films was called `Too Cool to Care `. As part of the Aim Higher programme this film dealt with many issues such as bullying and the importance of further education.

In 2006 we made a film on Gun Crime in collaboration with UFO productions called The Gun which was written, directed, filmed and starred teenagers from Norris Green and Croxteth, Liverpool.