Impact and outcomes
Shoot Out is a three year project. The first two years (2009-11) have enabled us to:- Reach 364 rurally disadvantaged young people to develop new technical, critical and communication skills and confidence through positive activities in media. In addition, 225 young people worked on our Ambition Is Critical film.
- Work with 40 community groups across the county. Community groups have reported benefits, such as a raised profile, improved fundraising and volunteer recruitment. 115 young people have reported feeling more engaged and respected in their local community.
- Enable 3 young rural, school/college leavers (17-19 year olds) to train in participatory media practices and achieve a Silver Arts Award.
- Work with 6 specialist organisations to enable them to hear the views of young people on their policies and services.
- Exhibit our young people’s films at 10 film festivals across the UK.
Below are a selection of comments about the project. More feedback can be found with each Shoot Out film.
HOPE Support Services
“Their confidence is improved quite dramatically…reflecting from the first session when the young people could only comment negatively about themselves and their ability to use equipment and to do new things to the final session where they independently handled equipment. We were quite overwhelmed at how much time and thought young people put into the project and how well they managed to express and articulate their thoughts and feelings.”
Sammy Powell, Youth Development Worker
“Shoot Out has enabled us to establish contact with a hard to reach group of children who feel they are just a bit too cool and sophisticated for the standard weekly sessions of the Youth Group. We have been seeking for an activity or way of meeting which would engage their interest and loyalty and this series of film training sessions and the subsequent responsibility of actually filming certainly did this.”
Rosemary Diamond, Volunteer
Polish Supplementary School
“We have become more confident, I think parents and also children recognise that we play important part in community integration in Herefordshire and we are quite large pocket of the community. Definitely it will help us to raise our profile and get more people to be involved in the project.”
Dominika Lipska, Headteacher
“We now know that the young people are as excited as we are about the new community play park. We plan to use the film made during workshops to support a grant application for an outdoor adventure play area and community space.”
Sarah Catterall, Volunteer leader
Y-Zone Youth Centre
“The DVD will demistify the work we do at the Y-Zone and give an understanding of what our aims are, the rationale of the DVD becomes even more valuable in terms of supporting young people in lobbying for services, funds and any other resources.”
Barry Stevens
“Those students who would normally shy away from volunteering to carry out technical tasks were willingly stepping forward and achieving new skills in operating the filming equipment. The film produced has certainly raised awareness of the capability of students on the Contact Course across the college.”
Juliet Stroucken, Lecturer
The Rainbow Group
“The young people rose to the challenge and we saw them visibly change their attitudes to the issues our project attempts to address throughout the making of this film. We believe that it will help to raise our profile. The film has clearly highlighted to us what are our core values, namely community and sustainability.”
Edi Hamilton
