Northside students focus on learning
By MIKE DWANE
STUDENTS have been learning through the lens of movie-making as the Northside Learning Hub in Kileely hosted transition years from Salesians and St Nessan’s during a day of workshops and talks by film and TV professionals.
The Hub, which is located in the shadow of Thomond Park, was set up in 2007 to add to the educational experience of young people, and those at risk of early school leaving, on the northside of Limerick.
One of its initiatives is the Digihub, a state-of-the-art ICT learning facility, where multimedia and technology programmes are devised to get young people learning through doing.
A Film Feast at the Digihub was attended by up to 30 Nessan’s and Salesians students over a full day during which they were shown all the tricks of the trade.
“We had speakers like Liam MacCarthaigh from LIT, who has his own production company and has worked on programmes like Hollyoaks and Brookside. And people like Ali Daly and Olivia Chau who have set up Flipit TV here in Limerick and go around town shooting videos with bands and at different events. You can check them out on YouTube,” explained Digihub co-ordinator Mark O’Connor.
Media students from Limerick College of Further Education were also on hand to let the school students know how video is shot and edited. These students have been working with the Learning Hub for some time already as they prepare to launch their own on-line TV channel Hub TV.
It wasn’t a case of shoot first and ask questions later, according to Mark, who said “you could have heard a pin drop” as the rapt students were taught the techniques.
“We had a couple of rooms set up for them, one of which was the green screen room used by TV stations and in the other we had a camera set up on a jib so it could pan around like you might see at a rock concert. That way, they were able to rotate the camera around the room and see the image of themselves or whatever they were shooting on a screen we had set up,” he explained.
Others to contribute on the day were documentary-maker Muireann De Barra, who teaches media at the College of Further Education and Richard Lynch and Jonathan Baines from ILoveLimerick, who make documentaries and shoot interviews on the city’s many positives.
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