This week, we’re bringing you a special blog post in
addition to our Friday bulletin. We're excited to announce that our Year 10 employees have begun to follow the
curriculum for this year's cycle of the international film education programme ‘Le Cinéma, cent
ans de jeunesse’. 
This project, driven by La
Cinémathèque Française in Paris and coordinated in the
UK by the British Film Institute, is a great opportunity for our young learners
to exercise their creativity while developing new vocational skills and
theoretical understanding.
The theme behind this year’s curriculum is ‘climate’, and the first exercise required our employees to capture a minute of footage depicting the weather, similar to the films of the Lumière Brothers (the founding fathers of filmmaking).
After studying some of the original ‘Lumière Minutes’, our employees headed out to capture some of their own. Take a look at the video below to see their ‘Météo Minutes’. Both of them capture a foggy morning in Camberwell but feature very different structures and incidents.
The second exercise required them to create a montage of shots, giving a sense of a particular weather type. As you can see in the video below, our employees chose to make the most of the foggy Autumnal conditions.
For their extension task, Dylan and Shanay also captured some still images of their local scenery, experimenting with shot types and depth of field.
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These are beautiful, and beautifully simple, short pieces of work. What I really like is the way Shanay uses the camera to reach into the fog in her montage - as though the camera itself is searching into the landscape to have clear view of what the fog is hiding. The effect is of trying to reveal what's hidden. And in her Meteo Minute, for long periods you wonder if the shot is a photograph, the image is so still.
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