Community Reporters were at GFS this week to help the girls and young women who work with the Butterfly Effect project across Great Yarmouth and Pakefield. The reporters had lunch, made by the girls of the Butterfly Effect, and then started an afternoon of learning and fun.
The girls learned about 96k and the reporters project and then moved on to an exercise designed to let the girls get first hand experience of reporting. The task they undertook was to plan and create a report using audio and video equipment about something of their choice around the Butterfly Effect.
The reporters, Lisa, Julie, Dawn and Rachel, worked with the girls in groups and helped them plan their ideas. They then showed them how to operate the equipment (bought with a grant from Awards 4 All) and set them loose!
Reports covered Butterfly Effect 'Sessions', friendship, Morton Rd Youth Centre amongst other things and without exception were excellent. The girls really got stuck in, interviewing everyone in sight, filming everything that moved (or didn't) and did a very professional job.
Over the next couple of weeks the film and audio content will be edited and then posted on 96k as well as being shown to an audience in London.
This was not just an opportunity for the girls involved in the Butterfly Effect to do something different. The Community Reporters also were pickinfg up new skills, passing on knowledge and experience, making new, professional, contacts and making new friends.
Watch out for a new team of reporters in Lowestoft and one in Peterborough - we're on the up and if you want to be too then get in touch.
