What Elephant CE Jordan Whitefield recently completed her Future Screens NI project developing workshops to assist companies in raising awareness of social injustice and using storytelling to encourage social progress. Whitefield worked with Causeway Enterprise and Ormeau Baths to develop future courses and programmes through two focus group meetings for NI creative practitioners to facilitate services as a creative video producer. The workshops facilitated two focus groups, piloting a version of a lunchtime video marketing workshop. The workshops resulted in the development of two service offerings for low on resource organisations and individuals/micro businesses.
This project was funded by Future Screens NI’s Future Creatives award. The Future Creatives award offered an opportunity to awardees to advance their research and development programmes, advance their career ambitions and develop cutting edge technical solutions in their work. Open to PhD researchers, early career researchers, early career industry applicants, start ups, individuals and free-lancers, the successful applicants were awarded £5,000 which could be set against enhancing existing research plans as part of a PhD, independent research, product development, innovation or professional development.
The Future Creatives scheme was designed to enable participants to make a step change in their research and innovation by enhanced leadership and collaboration skills and developing new practices in the field of creativity and technology.
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