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The Rural Media Company, has worked with over 150 organisations to get their messages across in an accessible and exciting way. Here are some examples to illustrate our range.
Commissioned Projects
Violence Linked To Sensory Impaired People
The Rural Media Company worked with the Royal National College for the Blind to capture and showcase three ground-breaking conferences on the subject of violence linked to sensory impairment.
A film crew from Rural Media documented the conferences in Sophia, Gdansk and Hereford, capturing the speakers and exciting atmosphere of the events The final DVD brings together the main lessons of this EU funded project.
Getting Across The Road Safety Message
This DVD and jigsaw is aimed at children aged between 3 and 5 years and it explores road safety with young children through the eyes of Ella, who goes out for the day with her mum. It was commissioned by Herefordshire Council Road Safety Officer for use in primary schools.
A Cut Above The Rest
A film showing how to manage Englands rich hedgerow heritage for the future was commissioned by Natural England on behalf of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, the RSPB, The Tree Council, Defra and the National Hedge Laying Society. Presented to Prince Charles at the Royal Show, you can view the film at www.hedgelink.org.uk
Stourport Canal Basins Restoration
British Waterways commissioned us to produce a DVD showcasing the artists' commissions and the regeneration context in order to promote this exciting project. Each artist talks about their own work and the thinking behind the site specific art they created for Stourport.
Tick The Box
Mediabox, the young people’s media project fund, held a competitive tender to find a production company to make a DVD aimed at young people, showing them different ways of carrying out an evaluation on their projects. A comedy scenario, devised by Rachel Lambert with her teenage cast, and produced by Jane Jackson, has a starring role from Adrian Lambert, as the fuddy duddy project leader, who only knows about box ticking.
Young People's Climate Change Messages
To promote WMnet's 'Young People's Climate Change Messages' project. Four young people from the Youth Times editorial team have worked with our Capture & Showcase team to produce a lively & stimulating video featuring young people talking about Climate Change and how they can make a difference.
The short film will be the centrepiece of WMnet’s website.
Get your life into gear!
Connexions commissioned a DVD to show school leavers the realities of finding a job. We filmed four young contributors on the 'set' of their lives; home, hobbies, workplace or hangouts, at various points of their life after school. They offer the viewer some valuable insights and straight talking advice.
Signposts
For IDeA, the Improvement and Development Agency, we covered a workshop with young people, that explored local safety. The film demonstrates how local authorities might discover what young people feel about their own safety and involve them as participants in service design and delivery. It supports the Signposts tool, a CDrom, which enables local authorities to assess and improve their safeguards for children and young people.
A Place in the Countryside
The Commission for Rural Communities (Countryside Agency) has just launched its new report and DVD, Rural Housing - A place in the countryside. The DVD was researched and produced by The Rural Media Company earlier this year. A professional film crew travelled the length and breadth of England, meeting rural people and capturing their views and experiences of housing and disadvantage.
View the Report and the DVD, Rural Housing - A Place in the Countryside on the Commission for Rural Communities' website
Hidden Voices
Produced for The Commission for Rural Communities, part of the Countryside Agency, the people who speak out in this film tell of real life experiences of living in rural England. They reveal how many of the things we take for granted can be lacking in rural areas and explain their frustrations. Things such as a decently paid job, nearby schools, shops and post offices, affordable housing, good public transport links, a social life and things to do.
Cut to the Chase
This film is part of an innovative consultation process with local people, to Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, which also involved creative writing and animation. It was commissioned by the AONB Unit to help shape the management plan for the future of Cannock Chase
Believe in me
For The Who Cares? Trust we devised and produced fictional scenarios, using child actors and based on genuine case studies of children in care. These were complemented by documentary interviews with designated teachers, to demonstrate their role with looked-after children attending UK schools for LEA’s, head teachers and potential volunteers.
Traveller education in Wales
For Save The Children, we filmed the work of the Traveller Education service in Wales to demonstrate to the Welsh Parliament how important it was to continue the funding stream.
Youth Voices
The Trust for the Study of Adolescence commissioned us to work with mental health groups and agencies to interview young people, speaking intimately about self harm and suicide attempts – sensitive and confidential material to be used for staff training purposes.
Experts in their field
Three groups of young people in very differnt locations, share their experiences of living in rural England. Produced for The National Forum for Rural Young People (National Children’s Bureau), the video reflects their policy of listening to and consulting with young people when planning services in rural areas.
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Who'd live in our village
For Herefordshire Community Safety and Drugs Partnership we devised and produced fictional scenarios in a short digital video – an oblique and witty slant on young people loitering, vandalism, noise, fly tipping, dog fouling, speeding traffic - to trigger discussion on community responsibility.
Modern Apprenticeships
We were commissioned by a regional Learning and Skills Council to produce a peer education video showcasing young people’s reasons for choosing a modern apprenticeship and what it means for their ambitions and self esteem, for use by Connexions with schools and NEET groups.
Available to purchase on VHS @ £5.00 inc vat and p&p.
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Sturdy girls and boys
For some young people who have a physical disability or sensory impairment, it is sometimes difficult to take part in social and recreational activities. This film for Partners for Active Leisure Scheme (PALS) shows that, with them, the possibilities are almost endless.
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Similar Projects
Partnership Projects
Climate Change Film
Costa Del Marches is Rural Media's short climate change comedy, featuring a farmer who plans to diversify into seaside resorts as the sea level rises. This 5-minute film comedy is set on a Herefordshire farm and stars Robert Duncan, best known as Gus in the TV series Drop The Dead Donkey.
The script was developed by a new Herefordshire writing team, (A Force for Good Writing) who won our story competition, and the project was a partnership venture with Marches Energy Agency and Flicks in the Sticks and financed by Defra’s Climate Challenge Fund.
Available to purchase on DVD @ £5.00 inc vat and p&p.
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Check your head CDrom
This educational (KS3) CDROM resource was the result of workshops, consultation and trials with young people. It is designed to give a better understanding of what is meant by mental health and let young people learn simple steps to maintaining good mental health, beating stress and helping their friends in a crisis. Click here for more information.
With its dynamic graphic design, its story format – aliens come to earth and want to identify racism amongst humans - its modern sound track and its elements of peer education, the CYBERACE CD-ROM is an interactive video game through which young people learn about racism almost without realising it. Young people were involved in the development of the scenarios, they took part in the professional video drama shoot and helped to road test the CD-ROM in post production, and the outcome has a very definite thumbs up from them. Read the Schoolzone evaluation. Available to purchase.
Selector! CDrom
We designed and produced an interactive CDRom for young people with learning difficulties leaving care for The Who Cares?Trust. The games and activities guide them through a self-development process toward producing their own CV and future training plan, which they do in collaboration with their key worker.
I'm not complaining but...
When care in the community fails to deliver, how do the recipients complain? That was the issue addressed by this training video for Bristol University on complaints procedures for everyone involved in community care. The result is a revolutionary drama, written and performed by actors with learning disabilities and alongside professional actors, including Robert Duncan (Gus from Drop the Dead Donkey).
Shampoo set
This high energy drama was developed and performed by eleven people with physical/learning difficulties and professional actors. While it has all the classic elements of a modern thriller it explores serious themes of bereavement, prejudice, history and freedom of choice. We were commissioned to make it by the Open University for a new course, Learning Disability: Working as Equal People.
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