The Workshop

All of these news clips were produced in 2 1/2 hour workshops. Some were conducted in secondary schools, some in youth centres, some in supplementary schools. Many of the participants are 1st and 2nd generation immigrant youth in London and New York between the ages of 15 - 18. I am interested in exploring how diverse cultural and religious discourses inform young peoples' understandings of the "War on Terrorism".




Sequence - Write - Read


The participants are asked to produce a news clip about the war for a children's news program. After an initial discussion of TV news and the war, I introduce the participants to the iMovie editing tool. The images that they use come from a 'library' of still and moving images, which I recorded and downloaded from TV news and the internet. There are nearly 160 clips, between 2 and 8 seconds long, from which they can choose. They can use as few as 15 images and as many as 40. After sequencing the clips, they write a narration which is then read as a voice over.