And finally they all met: Budapest|April|2009

PS - I think they are all here (except for Fleur - ze was er niet, ze verloor haar paspoort - the Greek students - which had already gone - and the Hungarians which couldn't come with us to the Parliament - sorry!)

Family photo...

As in any event in the European Union, here is the family photo. But unlike in the European Commission, as we have no official photographer, not all the participants are in it... :)

Student's opinions on CATRi - Year 1

The work... always the work... | A secret diary from Portugal...

We are trying hard. But it has been very difficult to keep up with the demands of this movie making enterprise. School duties (either from students and teachers), holidays, some unforseen training activities right on the days we usually work on the European partnerships, some lazyness, well, we are a little late in our work. Everybody is always trying to do better and no movie is yet finished... Scripts, storyboards, filming, a whole lot of discussion is what we really have by now! But we'll do it in time. Eventually...

News from Belgium

On The Run: Actors


Hello, my name is Alain Matthys, in my spare time I go out with my friends, play some video games, watch movies, listen to music and lots of other stuff and I play the role of Jack in our movie.

Hi, my name is Diane Umurerwa-Munyandinda and I’m originally from Rwanda, I love to watch TV, I also like to party with my friends and going crazy of course and I play the part of Jack’s “girlfriend”. I also won a competition so I can go on a t rip to Budapest (with Lander).

Hey, my name is Lander Van Hove and my hobbies are playing the piano, and playing games on my computer, my character is Peter, Jack’s companion. I’m also going to Budapest with Diane.

And I’m Ruben Colman, I like to read books, sitting at my computer (just like all the other guys). I don’t do a lot in the movie, but I play some small roles.

The Creation of “On The Run”

It wasn’t easy to write a script since we had never done something like that. We were lucky because Lander had a certain talent for stuff like this, so it didn’t take as long as the other groups.

Yesterday we started to film our movie, we all got half a day off at school so we could look around for some spots to film our movie. Our group went to Deinze and we started looking at the local Market, after about half an hour we found a spot and we started to film our first scenes. We started filming a scene where Alain (Jack) and Lander (Peter) had to prepare for a robbery, we had to cross the street while loading our guns. But it wasn’t as easy as we thought it would be, we had to look out for driving cars and we also had to look out for some old people who were walking in the streets. It wasn’t easy, but it was fun and we had a great time. When we finally finished filming we got some drinks and we had a lot of fun.

News from Lithuania

We are busy with film making. We meet every Tuesday after lessons to review the results.
We decided that we'll use the legend about the monster that lives in Daugava in film about Latvia . Film about Kaunas is going to be a retro love story. And film about Amsterdam is going to be half documentary.
Our details about trip to Hungary. We are coming 2 teachers and 6 students - 3 girls and 3 boys. We are coming by bus on 04,25 and leaving on 04,30. We are also busy with preparations for our meeting with guests from Italy on 03,03 - 03,06.
Regards
Edita

Presentation Belgian school

Sint-Vincentius- en Vrij Handelsinstituut (SVVHI) is a secondary school in Deinze, educating approx 520 students in technical and vocational training. Deinze is a town situated in the province of East-Flanders (North side of Belgium), with an interesting economic growth. In the last decade Deinze could attract many international production and trading companies, so there is a need for all kinds of skilled students.
The main courses in our school are business training, computer science and languages.

Our school objectives are to work on a European bases to allow us to learn from students and teachers abroad and we will use this project to create further links with the local businesses, community and the parents of our students.

The website of our school: http://www.sintvincentiusdeinze.be/

Presentation of the 4th EPAL of Kavala(Greece)

Kavala(Greek: Καβάλα),is the second largest city in northern Greece, the main port of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala prefecture. It is situated on the bay of Kavala, opposite the island of Thasos.Kavala is built amphitheatrically, with most residents enjoying superb views of the coast and sea.


The 4th EPAL(vocational senior high school) of Kavala is located on a hill above the town with a panoramic view.

The aim of our school is to combine general education with the specialized vocational knowledge, young people need, to take their place in the labour market, ready to respond to continually changing economic and social conditions. There are forty teachers forty and two hundred pupils. The pupils’ age is from 15-17
Graduates have certified occupational skills that provide specific vocational rights as well as the possibility of further education.
The first year of their studies (the total is three) the pupils of our school have to decide which of the two cycles will attend: 1) The Technological Cycle, or 2) The Cycle of Services.

The second year, each cycle is divided in different fields.
The Technological Cycle provides the field of arts.
The Cycle of Services provides the following fields:
1) The field of health and welfare,2)The field of economics and administration.
Finally the third year, pupils choose one of the provided specializations regarding the chosen field which are:1)Graphic Design,2)Nurse Assistants,3)Nursery Nurse Assistants,4)Assistants of Medical and Biological Labors 5)Office Clerks.
The labors of the 4th EPAL of Kavala are well equipped.

News from Poland

Hello everyone,
We also have a lot to do at school. We have already
organised the Lisbon strategy seminar in our school.
The students have taken part in the filmmaking
workshops and have collected the info about
the cities and the rivers. We have decided to make
movies about Warta (a river in Poland),
Rhine(Cologne, Germany)and Goeteborg Sweden.
The students are working on the scripts now
and I hope we will start filming before our winter
holidays (16February).We are coming on the 25th
by train from Leszno and we will give you
the details of the arrival soon.
We are taking 4 girls and 1 boy and we are going
to stay in the hostel with our students.

Dominika and Ania

The latest from sunny Glasgow

We have booked our flights - so we will definitely be in Hungary. We arrive at 1740 on Saturday 25th April and we will leave on a 1330 fight on Thursday 30th April. Now all we need it some where to stay!
Our group will have 4 girls, all 14 years old - Samantha, Zoe, Chloe and Kayleigh. We hoped to bring another, but Demi is unable to come. Margaret and I will be the 2 teachers.
At the minute we are still doing a lot of editing for the Glasgow/ Clyde movie. The girls will be recording their voice overs this week - if only we could get them to stop giggling! Also, the script for the Dublin/ Liffey film is completed. Including the 4 girls coming to Hungary, there will be about 12 pupils involved in making it. It should be fun! Still working on ideas for Helsinki/ Vantaa - but we are getting there!
Hope all is going well with the other projects - I will post some photos soon.
Regards,
Paula.

With regards from Belgium: How is the project going on in our school?

How is the project going on in our school:

All students working on the project (84 students) are devided into groups from 4-6 students. They will all make a movy of one country (Malta or Luxemburg, or Tsjechie or Belgium). This means we will have 4 movies of each of these countries. The week before we come to Budapest all students of the whole school will select which film is coming with us. The students had a workshop of a young filmmaker (that won an international price with a short movy) of how to make a script. Now they are working on a script. In the meantime they have some lessons of movymaker. Next week the young movymaker comes to school again and will give us a workshop how to film. After that we will start filming. So a lot of work to do in Belgium!! Do we need to put this information on the blog as well?

All seems to be going well!

We are on schedule, I hope! The first movie is a short documentary style film about the Clyde in Glasgow. All filming is over - and we have edited it down... however still a lot of fine tuning to be done!
We are diligently working on a script for a short story set in Dublin about a divided love across the river Liffey. I took some footage of the Liffey when I was in Ireland for Christmas (which I will try to upload - but I am not very good with these things.)
The Finland film is taking a while. We contacted the Finnish embassy who could give us nothing in English, so we are going to use whatever resources we can scramble together from Youtube type sites. We have a lot of ideas, but they are all ideas at the minute.
The girls are very excited about showing the films in Budapest, and they are very enthused about the whole project. Once we get confirmation of accommodation we will book our flights. I think 25th is cheaper for us at the minute, so we may not arrive until the Saturday - anyone else thinking of arriving Saturday?
Anyway. I will upload some video footage (not of the actual films of course!!) and some photos within a week so you can all see hoe we are getting on.
Paula