PROGRAMS
   
 

YOUTH MEDIA WORKSHOPS
Building a foundation for Youth experience,
 youth expression,
youth engagement
through media production
   
  Media Foundation Workshop
(Age groups: 6– 11, 12 – 14 and 15 – 22)
  This is the foundation workshop that introduces participants to the basics of media production, which includes Photography, graphics, multimedia, video, audio, mixed media animation. Participants become aware of their potential and specific talents in certain areas of the process of video production. For their productions, the elements of visual communication are stressed. For a final team project, the participants develop a short video production.
   
   
 

Video production Workshop
(Age groups: 6– 11, 12 – 14 and 15 – 22)

 

As part of this workshop young participants will work through initial concepts, including pre-production, production, and post-production. This workshop is structured around individual-based and group-based production projects and teaches practical audio and video skills.

Groups of four participants join together to produce minimum of 4 short length digital fiction videos. Each participant will write, produce and direct minimum of one short length digital video and as a principal crew member in the group, will serve in rotation as cameraperson, sound person and Editor. These videos incorporate sound effects, narration, music and multiple tracks. Students follow specific exercises with technical guidelines but are encouraged to express themselves creatively. The main focus in this workshop is the elements of storytelling and visual communications through a broad spectrum of aesthetic approaches. Students are also encouraged to working in collaboration with fellow participants while maintaining individual means of expression.

For all workshops, participants complete self and peer assessment to monitor their progress throughout the workshop. Whenever possible, final productions are sent in for exhibition-based events, such as short film festivals.
   
   
 

DEVELOPING MEDIA LITERACY AND
PRODUCTION SKILLS
   
  ** ** Awareness of the impact of media on their culture and youth culture
** ** Ability to analyze and interpret media messages
** ** Scriptwriting, storyboarding, sound, lighting, performing, photography, directing, audio and visual special effects, editing
** ** Visual dialogue and communication
   
   
 
DEVELOPING YOUTH EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS
   
  ** ** Teamwork
** ** Communication skills
** ** Problem solving and thinking skills
** ** Responsibility to a group project
** ** Self-Confidence
** ** Self-Expression
** ** Committment
** ** Creative thinking
   
   
  Youth Media Workshop Special Programs
   
 

YOUTH MEDIA OUTREACH PROGRAM
   
  Empowers youth with the greatest socio-economic challenges .

Through video and computer-based art-making activities, participating youth are challenged to deconstruct and reconstruct different perspectives of their own identities.
   
   
 

YOUTH MEDIA SPIRIT PROGRAM
   
  Empowers aboriginal youth in Saskatoon and across Saskatchewan.

Provides aboriginal youth with a creative, stimulating and energetic media environment within the context of their cultural framework.

Guides aboriginal youth to identify and express their needs while learning the practical and ethical aspects of media.
   
   
 

YOUTH MEDIA ETHNICITY PROGRAM
   
  The participants in the Youth Media Ethnicity Project come from diverse cultural backgrounds and represent a mix of class, race and ethnicity.

This program adopts a variety of genres and strategies including animation, digital experimentation, documentary, public service announcements and video diaries.

They tell their stories on their own terms and despite their diversity, these youth share common concerns and hopes.
   
   
 

COMMITMENT TO PROGRAM EVALUATION
   
  YMW is committed to a results-based management approach to program evaluation. Evaluation tools used are:

Outcome Assessment
 Participant pre- and post-program evaluations and / or focus groups and interviews
 Mentor (program facilitator) observations and evaluation

Impact Assessment
 Ongoing follow up with past participants through interviews, questionnaires or focus groups.