StoryLab Skills Training For Democratised Film Industries

Erik Knudsen教授（英国中央兰开夏大学）及其团队、Nico Meissner博士（澳大利亚格里菲斯电影学院）、Carolina博士Patiño（哥伦比亚伊巴格<s:1>大学）和Sarah Kuntoh博士（加纳国家电影电视学院）于2017年在马来西亚、加纳和哥伦比亚的官方发展援助国家成功资助了StoryLab国际电影发展研究网络项目（storylabnetwork.com）。拟议的“故事实验室民主化电影产业技能培训”项目将以获得的经验、开发的方法以及与项目合作的独立电影制作人网络为基础，研究和制定可扩展的技能培训影响战略和框架，并在哥伦比亚各地推广。AHRC网络允许我们探索在3个官方发展援助国家所表达的故事的内容和风格，影响和参与的后续资金将使我们能够冒险进入新的未开发领域，寻求理解如何通过创新技能培训将AHRC网络项目中开发的方法应用于经济和文化效益，并理解电影叙事在经济和文化发展中的重要性。虽然有许多现有的项目以技术（数字）技能培训为目标，但全球越来越多的年轻人拥有先进的数字技能，但缺乏产生原创想法和讲故事技能的经验。这些是支撑任何技术知识的基本技能，并导致可以在各种就业环境中部署的创造性工艺技能的高级发展。因此，这个技能培训研究项目的重点将放在故事和叙述技能上，并将其与创造性创业技能结合起来，包括演讲、规划和沟通技能。三个研究问题是该项目的核心：a)如何利用中低收入国家电影制作媒介和行业的民主化机会，将原创创意的产生和讲故事的技能融入年轻人的技能培训计划中？b)与叙事思想和故事的表达、销售和发展相关的创业技能，可以通过什么方式嵌入到年轻人的故事和叙事电影培训中，从而使他们能够有效地参与新兴电影行业，并在其中开展有意义的工作？c)地方和区域大学、培训合作伙伴和政策制定者如何共同努力，创造一个可持续的学习环境？这种可扩展的、社交网络和指导平台可能是什么样子？这些服务如何超越阶级、性别和文化，为中低收入经济体中充满活力的创意经济部门的发展做出贡献？“故事实验室民主化电影产业技能培训”项目将采用从音乐和人类学中汲取灵感的跨学科方法，采用由AHRC资助的“故事实验室国际电影发展研究网络”开发的一种名为“民族媒介学”的方法。民族媒介学是一门跨学科的研究方法，受到民族音乐学和民族志实践的启发。民族媒介学涉及研究人员在研究文化和过程中的积极和身临其境的参与，将这种积极的个人参与作为知识生成、数据收集、评估和影响实施的基础。就技能培训而言，它将涉及当地和区域哥伦比亚电影制作人导师的积极参与，他们将提供核心讲习班，当地或区域大学合作伙伴以及当地或区域电影部门战略合作伙伴。

Building on the successful AHRC funded StoryLab International Film Development Research Network project (storylabnetwork.com) that was delivered by Professor Erik Knudsen (University of Central Lancashire, UK) and his team, Dr Nico Meissner (Griffith Film School, Australia), Dr Carolina Patiño (University of Ibagué, Colombia) and Sarah Kuntoh (National Film and Television Institute, Ghana), in the ODA countries of Malaysia, Ghana and Colombia during 2017, this proposed StoryLab Skills Training for Democratised Film Industries project will build on the experiences gained, methodologies developed and the network of independent filmmakers with whom the project engaged, to research and develop a scaleable skills training impact strategy and framework to be rolled out across Colombia. Where the AHRC network allowed us to explore the content and styles of the stories being expressed in the 3 ODA countries, a Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement grant would allow us to venture into new unexplored territory of seeking an understanding of how the methodologies developed in the AHRC Network project could be applied to economic and cultural benefit through innovative skills training and understanding the importance of the role of cinematic storytelling in economic and cultural development.While there are many existing programmes that target technical (digital) skills training, young people, globally, increasingly have advanced digital skills, but lack experience of original ideas generation and storytelling skills. These are essential skills that underpin any technological knowledge and lead to advanced development of creative craft skills that can be deployed in a variety of employment contexts. The focus of this skills training research project will therefore be on story and narrative skills, contextualised within creative entrepreneurial skills, including presentation, planning and communications skills.Three research questions lie at the heart of the project:a) How can original creative ideas generation and storytelling skills be embedded in a skills training programme for young people that takes advantage of democratised access to the filmmaking medium and industry in low to middle income countries?b) In what ways can entrepreneurial skills related to the articulation, selling and development of narrative ideas and stories be embedded in story and narrative film training for young people to empower and enable effective engagement with, and meaningful work within, emerging film industries?c) How can local and regional universities, training partners and policy makers work together to create a sustainable learning environment and what might this scalable, social networked and mentored platform look like and how can these services transcend class, gender and cultures to contribute to the development of a vibrant creative economic sector within a low to middle income economy?Using interdisciplinary approaches inspired from music and anthropology, the StoryLab Skills Training for Democratised Film Industries project will utilise a methodology developed out of the AHRC funded StoryLab International Film Development Research Network entitled Ethnomediaology. Ethnomediaology is an interdisciplinary approach inspired by practices in Ethnomusicology and Autoethnography. Ethnomediaology involves the active and immersive participation of researchers in the research culture and process, using this active personal engagement as a basis for knowledge generation, data gathering, evaluation and impact implementation. In the case of skills training, it will involve the active participation of local and regional Colombian Filmmaker-Mentors, who will deliver the core workshops, local or regional University Partners and strategic local or regional Film Sector Partners.