StoryLab Skills Training For Democratised Film Industries

AHRC资助的StoryLab国际电影开发研究网络项目(storylabnetwork.com)是由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 Patiño博士(哥伦比亚伊巴圭大学)和Sarah Kuntoh(加纳国家电影电视研究所)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实施的，这一拟议的StoryLab民主电影产业技能培训项目将建立在获得的经验、制定的方法和与该项目接触的独立电影制作人网络的基础上，研究和制定一项可扩展的技能培训影响战略和框架，以便在哥伦比亚各地推广。AHRC网络使我们能够探索在3个官方发展援助国家表达的故事的内容和风格，影响和参与后续资助将使我们能够进入新的未知领域，寻求通过创新技能培训和了解电影讲故事在经济和文化发展中的重要性，如何将AHRC网络项目中制定的方法应用于经济和文化利益。虽然有许多现有的方案以技术(数字)技能培训为目标，但全球年轻人越来越多地拥有先进的数字技能，但缺乏产生原创想法和讲故事的经验。这些基本技能是任何技术知识的基础，并导致可在各种就业环境中部署的创造性手工艺技能的高级发展。因此，这一技能培训研究项目的重点将是故事和叙事技能，并结合创意创业技能，包括陈述、规划和沟通技能。三个研究问题是该项目的核心：a)如何将产生原创创意和讲故事的技能纳入年轻人的技能培训方案，以便利用低收入和中等收入国家的电影制作媒介和行业的民主化机会？b)如何将与表达、销售和开发叙事想法和故事有关的创业技能嵌入故事和叙事电影培训，以增强年轻人的能力，并使其能够有效参与其中的有意义的工作，新兴电影产业？c)地方和地区大学、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？这个可扩展的、社交的和有指导的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？利用受音乐和人类学启发的跨学科方法，为民主化电影产业提供StoryLab技能培训项目将使用AHRC资助的StoryLab国际电影发展研究网络开发的方法，名为民族学。民族音乐学是一种受民族音乐学和民族志实践启发的跨学科方法。民族医学涉及研究人员积极和身临其境地参与研究文化和进程，将这种积极的个人参与作为产生知识、收集数据、评估和实施影响的基础。在技能培训方面，将有哥伦比亚当地和地区电影制片人-导师的积极参与，他们将提供核心讲习班、当地或地区大学合作伙伴和当地或地区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.