SummerSchool 2002 Project Description

SummerSchool 2002 built on the successes of previous years.  The 2002 challenge saw young people from all over Essex and Kent coming together to undertake the '24 Hours' challenge.  All young people involved in the project recieved a DVD containing their work and also defended their finished video pieces to an audience at th Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

In July 2002 the project got bigger, once again the event was hosted at the V&A museum in London for the presentation of 24 movies. We figured that if the Researchers from 'Tragedy' were prepared to get up and film at '4 am' in the morning for the 2001 project then all the Researchers could get up and film around the clock!

The challenge was to film during specific hours of the day, and make a 60 second movie about British life at that time.

As ever the groups of researchers only had one and a half hours training at Ultralab on how to use the equipment and software.

Once again, amazing films were produced, ranging from death at 3am (the most frequent time most people die) right through to dreams and early dawn. The result was 24 movies, each exactly 60 seconds long. While Summer School 2002 was running, Ultralab also began roll out of the Summer School model with Children's BBC on a joint collaboration project, 'Input CBBC'. Children's BBC had seen the Summer School work and approached Ultralab to find out together what television made completely by children would be like.