'What lockdown made of me' Film Released

Arts Education Exchange and Margate Films collaborate on film created during pandemic lockdown

At the beginning of 2020, Arts Education Exchange in collaboration with Margate Films launched a new online ‘AEE TV’, a TV channel to amplify young people’s voices.

The launch was aimed at young people aged 18 - 30 living in Thanet giving them an opportunity to create film and video.

Initially the group met up weekly at Arts Education Exchange studio with filmmaker Beth Turrell to learn about the filmmaking process with the aim of creating short films.

Lockdown meant that the group had to move to online learning, During these sessions the group learnt about the process of filmmaking, watching and critiquing short films before progressing to making the short film “What Lockdown made of me” as a response to the pandemic.

Participants identified people all over the UK to take part in the film, asking them how lockdown had impacted them. The group then worked together over Zoom editing these pieces together and creating the soundtrack.