Tess is a teacher at Kelford School, a Special School in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.  Her whole family is involved in teaching, especially teaching disabled children, so disability issues are close to her heart.  Being a special needs teacher means that she has to be a leader both to her students and to a group of support staff, however she has discovered that leadership is quite different for adults compared to children. Going on the Momentum Leadership course has helped to develop her as a leader to adults, and will have a massive impact on her work.

See our Momentum – ‘Why Am I Here?’ press release on PRLog for more information.

Jordan is a 21 year old college senior at the University of Nebraska, USA.  American culture is very different to that of the UK, and can often be quite insular.  However through travelling and interacting with people from different cultures Jordan has been able to change her outlook and realised that the world doesn’t end outside her country or even her state. Finding value in helping others brings an unexplainable satisfaction to her. Through this she has begun to discover what she is passionate about.

Momentum Youth Development CIC released the third film in the series this week. Working alongside the team at Momentum Voidcomp devised a theme based around the concept of why people would attend the Momentum Leadership course.

Our team devised this concept and took it to its conclusion. We completed principle photography with the 4 participants in 5 days. Production took place all over the country, from the grounds of King’s College London to the Magna Centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

In the films the course participants discuss their lives, how they view leadership and how the Momentum course has helped them to develop. The first two films have already been released, they were about Anna and Goran.

See our Momentum – ‘Why Am I Here?’ press release on PRLog for more information.

Our team took the concept and completed principle photography with the 4 participants in 5 days. Production took place all over the country, from the grounds of King’s College London to the Magna Centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

In the films the course participants discuss their lives, how they view leadership and how the Momentum course has helped them to develop. The first film has already been released, and was about Anna.  This second film is about Goran.

Goran is from Skopje, Macedonia and is an economics student. He is an active member of AIESEC, a youth organisation which also looks to develop leadership, business and team skills in its members.

Goran is passionate about developing his skills to play an important part in the future of his country. A country he very passionate about.

Read more information at youthmomentum.org or read the Momentum – ‘Why Am I Here?’ press release on PRLog for more information.

This relationship has developed over time and we actively consult on all media issues, recently this has included the development of a web video integration package which will be rolled out at www.youthmomentum.org over the course of 2012.

The website will highlight services, testimonials and miscellaneous content through moving images. A part of that involves documenting some of the different programmes Momentum offers.

This summer we produced individual films about four of the participants who attended the Momentum International Youth Leadership Course.

These four participants are Anna Dageretzis from Germany, Goran Boshkovski from Macedonia, Jordan Searcey from the USA and Tess Meaker from the UK. In the films they talk about their lives, how they view leadership and how the Momentum Leadership Course has helped them to develop themselves.

Momentum is a social enterprise focusing on the professional development of young people.  Their International Youth Leadership Course brings together young people from around the world to learn about themselves and to help them develop the skills to form their own international social projects.

Voidcomp produced a 30 min documentary about the 2010 Leadership Course and were then commissioned by Momentum to produce these 4 short films for the 2011 Leadership Course.  Both organisations felt these films needed to be personal, talk less about Momentum and highlight what individuals are getting out of such a dynamic, fast paced and intensive programme.  The films combine multiple locations with an ever changing background and technically challenging production techniques, all with the aim of answering the question “Why am I here?”.  The narrative behind every film is the individual story of each participant.  We explore where the participants are from, how they got to where they are now and what they want to achieve.

This first film is about Anna, a half German half Greek young person studying International Leisure Management in the Netherlands.  She has always been shy and insecure about her skills.  In the film she talks about how the leadership course has helped her gain more self confidence and potentially change her career outlook, allowing her to realise that everything is possible when you really go for something.

See the Momentum – ‘Why Am I Here?’ press release on PRLog for more information.

Below is the second film in the series, produced by Voidcomp and sponsored by Momentum Youth Development CIC. The film focuses on Claire Young, and how she felt empowered by her education leading to her applying as nearly winning the BBC hit show The Apprentice. She explains what she does as a successful young business woman to empower other young people in her old school.

See our press release on PRLog for more information or download the Are You Ready Release November 2011.

This film was sponsored by our team and special thanks are due to James, Gary, Paul, Charlotte, Eleanor, Liam, Ting and Marc.

See our press release on PRLog for more information or download the Are You Ready Release November 2011.

The first film is of Carl Hopkins, a social entrepreneur and Secret Millionaire featured on the popular Channel 4 TV show of the same name. Carl is the founding patron of the ‘Are You Ready?’ programme. The short film follows the journey Carl made from the council estate he was raised in through some of the locations that made him the person he is today.

The second film features Claire Young, a runner up on the BBC’s The Apprentice. Claire takes a trip back to her high school and discusses the importance of empowerment at such a young age.

In both films they talk about their experience in becoming successful business people, and how the ‘Are You Ready?’ programme could help inspire and empower young people for their future lives.

We produced both films on behalf of the campaign with Creative Director – Paul Oxborough from Momentum, and were that impressed with the ‘Are You Ready?’ team we sponsored Carl’s film. We saw the enormous impact that their campaign was having; their programme was able to inspire young people to become more enterprising. As a company and a collective of creative professionals we believe that enterprise skills are necessary for all careers, especially creative careers where they can occasionally be overlooked.

The films can be seen on the ‘Are You Ready?’ website.

Momentum is a social enterprise focusing on the personal development of young people, through international networking opportunities.

The VoidcompUK YouTube service will provide all video content to the network, alongside our Vimeo service. The decisions was made to ensure our work reaches the widest online audience possible.

We plan to move the majority of our recent work to the channel, and all future work (based upon client approval) will be distributed to both sites.

The service provides information on current project to our team and clients. Its a secure feed and information on how to connect will be provided on a project by project basis. Its one other way we want to keep communication channels open and let you know whats happening with your project.

The purposes of the shoot was to create x4 small web videos to really get to know some of the course participants and support the existing media and film produced in 2010. This forms part of a wider media strategy being developed between the two companies.

The x4 films will have a staggered release throughout the remainder of 2011.