The Blog for Penryn (UK) -based Kernow Youth Society for the Performing Arts. Our society is open to young people aged 9 upwards from the Falmouth and Penryn area. Our aim is to allow members to explore their interest in the performing arts through drama and film activities. KYSPA has a strong citizenship theme with activities aiming to promote self confidence, teamwork and communication skills.

Tuesday 28 August 2007

Tuesday 28th August

Hi, KYSPA is ON tonight, more painting of cars etc, so please wear clothes that wash easily! Our paints don't stain if washed fairly quickly.

The Motormalgamation by itself isn't long enough to warrent an evening performance. We will therefore add a few more short performances over the next few weeks with a view to putting on a "family" show. We need to stage a performance ahead of Snow White that will actually generate revenue. We need the money, folks!

Sunday 19 August 2007

Update from our friends at YoMo

If you log onto http://www.yomo.co.uk/ and go into the latest news section you will see a couple of items of interest! Firstly, the National Event in October is one we have been invited to. KYSPA will be running a 35 min presentation/workshop about our own experiences setting ourselves up and what we have done since our training.

We can only take about 4 members to this event which is on the 25th - 26th October. If you would like to attend and raise KYSPA's profile NATIONALLY, then please find out from your parents if you are free on those dates.

The ONLY expense will be transport and possibly a couple of meals. accommodation and admission will be free as we're "exhibitors". If you are interested, I need to know SOON.

Picking just four members is going to be tough. I don't want it to be random (names out of a hat) and I don't want to choose myself - because it looks like I'm "playing favourites".

SO, if you want to go, I will give you a questionnaire to fill in with some of the topics you will need to talk about. These will be filled in anonymously using your "numbers" from the Making Waves folders (A1, B5 etc.) The Board of Trustees will then pick the four best candidates based on these forms, making it perfectly fair.

If I had my way, I'd be taking all of you - you'd all do us proud, but since we have to choose, this seems the fairest way. ALL of these forms will go into your Making Waves folder and will count as evidence towards your certificates so even if you don't go, the form will still be helpful.

Secondly, if you select photos on the YoMo latest news page and click on the "Devon April" section, you'll see... yourselves! All the KYSPA photos from our Lindridge trip are on display in that folder. Enjoy!

Friday 17 August 2007

Tuesday 21st August

KYSPA is BACK! (yay). We're looking at a street performance for Saturday 25th - quite a simple one - so we'll start rehearsals and painting props etc on Tues. We'll have a few more afternoon/eve rehearsals ahead of Saturday.

Hopefully, I'll also have a script for The Adoption Papers soon so we can start working on that.

THEN we really must sort out our films for when Firstborn Creatives come to visit!

See you all on Tues, Rich

Tuesday 7 August 2007

NO KYSPA Tonight! 7th August

Normal service WILL be resumed shortly! Hang on in there!

Sunday 5 August 2007

KYSPAs Extended Schools Workshops

DAY TWO

The second day of the summer film making workshop saw four groups move on to make a longer piece of film. The subject matter varied again, but a certain ammount of death & murder will no doubt be involved! (I let the groups choose what they film - nothing to do with me!).

Although Hannah was ill, and sadly unable to join us (hope you're feeling better now) Flo & Ruby both continued to help their respective groups with filming and advice - as well as lending their acting skills to support the plot!

Overall, this was a successful workshop which has left me with HOURS of editing to do (fun,fun,fun!) but once it's done we will be arranging to show the entire collection at a mini premiere where DVDs will be available.

The photos collected over the course of the two days will hopefully be enough evidence to secure at least two Youth Activity Leaders Awards for my hard-working helpers! Thanks to all of you for your hard work.


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Filming in progress making use of the great weather we had to film outdoors.




Ruby setts up the camera for an internal shot of a mystical spy base occupied by a strange long-haired cooking guru!


We also managed to get some editing done on our new Imac!

Wednesday 1 August 2007

KYSPA's Extended Schools Workshop

DAY ONE

KYSPA is delivering a film making course as part of this year's Extended Schools summer activities programme. This has provided some of our members with the opportunity to gain some experience towards their YoMo certificates by running some of the games and supporting the workshop participants with their film making activities.

As you can see, having been put through some tough team building exercises by YoMo, KYSPA's members are only too happy to see how other groups cope with the same challenges!




We played some games too, mainly to help learn everyone's name (which I'm still working on)


We've had rather a lot of people enroll on this course and although we've only two cameras, four groups worked on seperate films over the course of the day. In the picture below, a case of mistaken identity leads to a large crowd of Nelly Furtado fans gathering in the hope of an autograph - requiring a quick exit by the person mistaken for this populat artist!
As ever, stories of spying and bloodthirsty deeds seemed popular with our young film-makers this year. The films made today were short films of about 2 minutes or less. These provide an opportunity to learn the process of film making - and some of the problems that go with it - before tackling a larger project on Day 2.