Tuesday 19th June

All welcome for a full & hopefully fun-packed session! Jane Blonde has been completely edited & is very funny! Included an outake reel after the credits. Nowhere to show it online just yet, but if you post a memory stick through my door, I'll save it & return the stick to you at the session so you can take it home to watch.

Some great films made this month! Well done all.

12th June NO KYSPA this week

Due to a huge editing backlog (3 films on the go) there will be no KYSPA this week. Details of next week's session to follow.

Coming Soon....

Just a little pre-warning post! We have a date for "The Big Shoot" which is the second of the Making Waves events funded by the Cornwall Community Foundation. Over the weekend of the 7th & 8th July, Penryn will become Cornwall's Hollywood with up to four seperate films being shot in and around the town under the guidance of the experts from Firstborn Creatives.

Four groups of between 5 & 6 young people will shoot a film each with the general theme of issues which affect either them or other young people in their community. These films will be submitted for the Cornwall Film Festival and "Fresh 7" YP Film Festival in Bristol.

With all of KYSPA's members taking part, there will still be room for other local budding film makers to take part in this event. The best brains in KYSPA (well, ok, me) are working on a system by which interested young people can apply to take part. Details will be published in the local press shortly. Keep an eye out for posters about the place too! In the meantime, if you are interested in taking part, drop us an email.

Getting things done

Whilst KYSPA's internet command centre has been spitting sparks and blowing black smoke from the vents, our members have been moving ahead with many of the ideas on the Making Waves planning sheet. After the previously discussed "boring" planning session, we've been looking at how we might run activity workshops for other young people locally.

Our first opportunity will be at the "Party in the Park" event next month. This all day event provides ample opportunity for our members to apply their new-found skills and run activities for others. The last couple of weeks has been taken up with first planning a workshop (who runs which bit etc.) then trying it out on some willing volunteers to see if it works.

As a result, we've run a successful dance workshop AND shot two short films (James Blunt 007 and an as yet un-named horror spoof). A third group, also working on the 007 theme are now ready to shoot "Jane Blonde".

Part of the workshop activities include team games along the lines we learned at Lindridge. After rummaging around under the stairs I found my "games" book & we've been trying them out. These games are designed to improve communication, team work and drama skills. If they result in pictures of our members in daft positions, so much the better!

Back in business!

Apologies for the break in service but the KYSPA command centre has been experiencing technical difficulties which resulted in disconnection from the internet. We're back now, broadband capable, and normal service has beeen resumed!

KYSPA's new Email accounts

As part of our aim to give members more direct responsibility for running the society, some of our members will coordinate publicity, workshops and film making activities.

To do this, it is helpful if they have access to Email. It is KYSPA's policy that our members should NEVER release personal Email or contact details to third parties as this can put young people at risk. Therefore, we have set up hotmail accounts for the above areas of responsibility which will be monitored by the Trustees and can be checked by the parents of those members regularly.

For those members entrusted with a KYSPA Email address, I must request that they use the account ONLY for KYSPA mail and in a manner which will reflect well on our organisation. Misuse of the account will result in the password being changed and future access denied.

Our new Email addresses can be found on the side bar above my profile.

The Seven "Ps"

Last night's session was not perhaps one of the most inspiring ever, but it was REALLY IMPORTANT! Following on from the excellent planning we did on residential, the group completed the remainder of our "Twelve Month Plan". Group members have been given responsibility for project areas and we will see some rapid movement towards our goals in the next few weeks.

• Publicity will step up a gear, raising awareness of the group and what we are doing. Our website should pop into existence fairly soon too.
• We are planning to run workshops for local young people at both the Party in the Park event and over the summer holls. The latter will raise money to pay for another fun residential.
• Whilst practising how to run workshops, we'll make a short film or two, just to keep our hand in.

And that's just this next month! in July sometime we'll have our second major "Making Waves" funded activity - film making with Firstborn Creatives for the film festivals.

The odd boring session is necessary to make all this stuff happen! It's the seven Ps.

Prior Preparation Prevents Poopy Poor Performance!

If we plan well, we'll achieve lots. Hold that thought folks!

PS. We'd like to extend an official blog welcome to the new member who joined the group last night. Hope the insane E-number fuelled antics of our weird and wacky membership didn't scare you off!