Home Ed Filmmaking: Junk Animation.

A short day of animation.
Monday Dec 2. 10:15 – 14:15
Ages: 8+

Cost: £40.

Try out a few simple animation techniques using, well, junk, over this 4 hour workshop. We’ll play with stop motion and pixilation – no drawing skills required. We’ll have a lunch break half way through so make sure to pack a small lunch. And, of course, bring in some ‘junk’ to play around with.

Our sessions utilise easily accessible kit, such as smartphones and tablets, so we encourage you to bring along your own devices. However we have devices available on-site if you feel this is a barrier to coming along.

No previous experience is necessary, all the children need to bring along is their imagination and a willingness to work together in a small group.

Led by a team of expert lecturers and professionals, our study days include a film screening (in our luxurious screen 1), supported with lectures and Q&As designed to support a range of BTEC / A-Level film and media students.

Days start at 10:00 and finish around 15:00. 

Tickets cost £10 per student, accompanying staff are free.

This year: I Am A Killer (with production team), Get Out + TAPE Collective shorts, Vertigo, Black Panther, a film career’s day plus Future Film Festival short film screening + Q&As filmmakers.

For any queries or to book places for your school or college, please contact our education manager Anthony via email: [email protected]

Watch an episode of this hit Netflix series and meet it’s makers .

Despite the admittedly striking title of the series, I Am A Killer (regularly slipping into Netflix’s top ten most watched category) is not the sort of sensationalist “True Crime” programming that has become so prevalent in recent years. Rather, it is a series of intelligent, thought-provoking, and sensitively produced documentary films which, collectively, explore both the causes and the consequences of violent crime in America through intimate interviews with only those directly connected to events.

For this special study day we have members of the British production team from Transistor Films, who created episodes from the series, joining us. They will be discussing their approach to creating documentary films and how they covered I Am A Killer’s controversial subject matter.

Jordan Peele’s first, low budget, influential, feature raised the bar for social commentary in mainstream cinema.

This study day will be led by Delphine Lievens from TAPE who will talk about why diversity is important and discuss the past, present and future state of affairs in regards to representation on-screen, using her own experience alongside that of TAPE, and of course, Get Out.

As a bonus there will also be shorts films from TAPE’s archive screening alongside Get Out. 

Chadwick Boseman’s iconic role endures and Black Panther remains one of the MCU’s best entries. T’Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future, confronting a challenger from his country’s past along the way.

This A Level Media Studies day covers the following key concepts:

Historical Contexts: The Black Panthers?
Political, Social and Cultural Contexts: What are the stories we tell? 
Economic Context: Does Disney make a difference?

Lecture will be led by Faye Pirate, an experienced lecturer with many years experience teaching across a range of successful A-Level & BTEC media and film courses.

Alfred Hitchcock’s masterwork. Start the year with a classic. A former San Francisco police detective juggles his personal demons and his obsession with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who herself may be deeply disturbed.

In this A Level Film Studies day we will focus in particular on the auteur theory, film form and cover elements of the Hollywood studio system of the time.

Lecture will led by Ellen Cheshire, a film historian, writer and lecturer who is a regular contributor to BFI publications, has taught at Sussex and Chichester universities and was part of the writing team for the current WJEC A Level Film textbook.

Depot is proud to once again be a part of BFI’s free screening programme.

We have films suitable for all ages; from primary school to college students. To book your school or group or family into a free screening visit the INTO FILM website. Bookings are taken via INTO FILM not Depot so you won’t find these films on our main website or listings. Most screenings start at 10:30.

If you have any queries related to these screenings please contact our education manager Anthony via email: [email protected]

Wed 13 Nov
The Wild Robot  U  (suitable for primary schools)
After a shipwreck an intelligent robot is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment it begins to bond with the island’s animals.

Two performances of this film are available:
– A regular screening in our largest screen at 10:30.
– An Autism Friendly screening in our smallest screen at 10:15.

Mon 18 Nov
The Fall Guy  12A  (suitable for secondary schools and colleges)
A genuinely funny action/rom-com inspired by the classic 80’s TV show. A stuntman, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life. What could possibly go right?

Fri 22 Nov
I Could Never Go Vegan  12A  (suitable for secondary schools and colleges)
Five words uttered around the world by many a non-vegan, but why? On a quest for the truth, a filmmaker sets out on a journey to find out the leading arguments facing the vegan movement, and if they’re justified.

Peter Bradshaw, writing in The Guardian, says its’s a “…cheerfully persuasive film” and “…the kind of punchy and straightforward film-making that we used to see all the time in the 00s, that was effectively made popular by Michael Moore.“

If you have any queries related to these screenings please contact our education manager Anthony via email: [email protected]