Young people produce video guide to St John’s!

Students from Perins School in the film-making process!

“It’s been really interesting to learn about the history during this whole journey and production of this film” (Student comment)

One of the highlights of the Education and Community programme, an integral aspect of our Organ Conservation and Restoration project, is the work that has now been undertaken by students from Perins School, Alresford. What the students wished to put together was a creative digital resource - a Virtual Visitor’s Guide to the heritage of the church including its organ. This has now been completed and we are delighted with the outcome.

Here is Perins Students’ film: https://youtu.be/Okf8mrj147E

Film by Students from Perins School: FILM

This was an exciting, innovative, and imaginative approach.  It was indeed a cross curricular project involving English and drama, art, history, photography, and film.  The young people worked collaboratively on this in-depth creative arts and history study of the history and heritage of the Church.

“It’s been fun to work with lots of different people. It’s brought together lots of aspects of the school - photography, media, English, history, and drama” (Student comment)

Students firstly studied and researched the history of St John’s and its architecture and artefacts, They filmed in-person interviews exploring every aspect  of the Church with Church Warden, Lord Mark Ashburton,  and with Judge Michael Brodrick.  A group of some 20 film and photography students visited St John’s, capturing their impressions and filming and photographing some of the unique aspects of the church and its heritage artefacts and sculptures. They devised a script to use in the film ; they then returned to St John’s to create the film.  The result is a beautiful film  about our fabulous heritage building, devised and led by young people.

“It’s been good experience - doing projects outside of the normal curriculum has benefits for our learning” (Student comment)

Thank you to the staff and students of Perins School, Alresford.  We believe the way they worked will act as an ongoing model of excellent, imaginative and technically contemporary practice illustrating how young people can bring history and heritage alive in a genuinely accessible way to all age groups.

“Skills learnt included research, information gathering, finding the hidden secrets of the church, persuasive writing, teamwork; putting into all into a format that other people would want to listen to; making the script was fun! (from Student comments).

“ Got to go under the crypt - really exciting”(Student comment)