' IBU You Be Me' Project

Following the completion of the filming with the young people of Paryrhun on the 'IBU You be Me' project, the group worked very hard to edit and complete their film through a final workshop last Wednesday.

(Rhia and Rhunedd editing their film)

The exciting project looked at the different perceptions between young people and adults in the communities and gave an opportunity for both the young people and the adults to think about what its like to be each other in 2009.

(editing the film)

Throughout the project, the young people were introduced to new digital equipment, including professional video cameras and sound equipment, as well as playing the roles of a production team, learning new key skills using the equipment and how to plan, film and edit a full film.

On the final session of the project, the young people used Apple Mac based editing software (Imovie) to edit their finished films. All the young people involved enjoyed the experience and gained a new skill that they can use in the future to make their own films.

The project was lead by Communities First Pantyffynnon and delivered by Carmarthenshire Connect. Please view the video below:

(Ann Richards - Communities First Development Officer)

As Ann mentioned in the video above, they hope to have a premier night in Ammanford sometime in March to showcase both this video and a video completed by the Ffynnon Las youth group last year.

For more information regarding the project, please contact Ann Richards on 01269 590255.

'IBU You Be Me' Filming Completed

The young people of Parc Yr Hun Youth Group have now successfully completed the filming required for their IBU You Be Me video.

The youth group interviewed each other and older residents of Parc Yr Hun, with the twist that younger residents were pretending to be older residents and vice versa.

Then everyone gave feedback as to whether the stereotypes impersonated gave a realistic picture of the lives of younger and older people today.

Parc Yr Hun Youth Group members with older Parc Yr Hun residents and Ann Richards, Community Development Officer for Pantyffynnon Communities First.

Rhunedd interviews local councillor Carol Cadman, who played 'Stephanie'. Stephanie spends her weekends "nicking things" to sell for drugs money, drinking cider and spending time with her boyfriend. Stephanie also thought that she had more opportunities than her parents because she could get a free house if she had a baby.

Here are videos of some of the youth group members explaining what they've learned so far on the IBU You Be Me video project:

Terry


Laura


Rhia

The group has started editing the video. The edit should be completed next week, when Carmarthenshire Connect will show the group how to add music and titles to the video.

Parc Yr Hun Youth Group Video Project

Carmarthenshire Connect has started working with the Parc yr Hun Youth Group on a new video project.

The group initially worked with Pantyffynnon Communities First to create a video idea: the young people decided that they'd like to make a short video about the how the older and younger residents of Parc yr Hun perceive each other.

Carmarthenshire Connect met with the group last week to plan how to make this video idea happen - from filming to editing - in four days. Today was the first of two filming days, before two days of editing.

The young people planned a video called IBU You Be Me. In the video, the young people will explore the perceptions that younger and older residents of Parc yr Hun have of one another by interviewing each other and older residents. The twist is that the young residents will pretend to be older residents and vice versa. This will hopefully reveal some interesting perceptions! Both young and older residents will then feedback on the interviews - explaining whether or not they thought the perceptions were accurate.

Today, Carmarthenshire Connect met the young people and Pantyffynnon Communities First in the meeting room of the 2Active8 cafe in Ammanford, our base for this mini-project. We brought our filming kit of a Sony camcorder, directional microphone and spot lamps, and showed the young people how to use the equipment to film their video.

Today's filming went very well, with everyone having a go at filming, positioning the microphone and directing. The interviews generated some interesting (and rather funny!) impressions.

Some of the Parc Yr Hun Youth Group with the filming gear

And 'action'!

Pantyffynnon Communities First Development Officer Ann Richards

Filming Rhunedd's introduction

A sketch of the video storyboard on the whiteboard

Pantyffynnon Youth Challange Valley Trip

As a reward for all the hard work the youth of Pantffynnon have put into their recent video project, Communities Firsts Pantyffynnon decided to take the group out for an evening of wet and muddy FUN on the Challenge Valley assault course in Swansea.

Claimed as the muddiest assault course in the WORLD! the group were surprised to see photos on the changing room walls of what they had jumped into.

The assault course has been there for over 20 years and has several different challenging sections for group to tackle, from rope bridges to muddy wet tunnels.

I think the photos and videos of the group below can sum up the kind of fun they had!

(Warming up before they begin)

(Ann & Dan were the first to get wet!)

(Still looking a bit to clean there lads!)

(A brave balancing act from Phil)

(climbing the 6ft wall!)

(a swing to keep dry, unlucky there lads)


(a very wet Sprout)

(It's not that high Nathan, honestly)

(Feet first through the tyres)

As you can tell, its was very muddy, wet and cold! but that didn't stop the fun. Plastered head to toe the group then made there way to the changing rooms for a hot shower.

Sleep well tonight hey lads??!!??

Pantyffynnon Youth Video Project Update

Pantyffynnon Youth Group have now finished filming in the community for their video project and spent two hours last night putting all their video ready to edit on the Mac Laptop at Communities First Pantyffynnon.

The young people will now start to create a structure and plan for the editing of their video with help from Carmarthenshire Connect over the next two months.

(the lads watching their video clips)

The video is the young people's way of showing the entire community what its really like for them, and how they feel about there community.

The project has been developed and delivered as a partnership project between Communities First Pantyffynnon, Mess Up The Mess Theatre Company, Carmarthenshire Connect and the Community Safety Partnership.

Pantyffynnon Youth Video Project

(Phil interviewing Nathan)

Over the past couple of weeks, Carmarthenshire Connect have been working with Communities Firsts Pantyffynnon and Mess Up the Mess Theatre Company on a youth video project on an estate in Ammanford.

The video and the project has stemmed from outreach projects delivered to the youth by Carmarthenshire Connect over the course of the year in the AVE Centre, Ammanford.
This projects is aimed to highlight that the youth of the estate are not to blame for all the problems caused and that they just want something to do and somewhere to go.

(Nathan filming on the estate)

The youth have now finished filming for this video and will be editing it over the next month. The finished film will then be shown to community on a premier night.

Keep an eye out for more information about this project on this website.

Pantyffynnon Youth Ringtone Workshop

Carmarthenshire Connect has been working with Pantyffynnon Youth to make their own ringtones using music production software at the AVE centre in Ammanford.

These workshops have demonstrated basic music production techniques to the group by using audio samples that are layered together using computers.

(Dan & Phill having a go at making their own ringtones)

Towards the end of the session the group uploaded their ringtones to their phones using bluetooth adapters and the Carmarthenshire Connect laptops.

Please click on the links below to listern to the groups new ringtones:

Lee's Ringtone

Phill's Ringtone

Nathans Ringtone

Jakes Ringtone

Pantyffynnon Youth Go Internet Safe!

Carmarthenshire Connect delivered a workshop on Internet safety to the youth of Panyffynnon yesterday over drinks, crisps and pizza at the new Pantyffynnon CF office in Ammanford.

The group spent an hour and a half discussing the issues that affect young people online including social networking websites, online grooming and predators and how to keep safe from such dangers.

The group also watched videos from CEOP (The Child Online Exploitation and Protection Centre) about the more serious problems of child abuse that can arise from Internet use. This included learning how to use the report abuse button now found on many websites for young people.

Ann Richards (Communities First development worker) said " I now hope the young people will take more care when using the web and websites such as 'Bebo' and 'MSN' ".

Carmarthenshire Connect will now look at providing open surgery sessions to the youth so they can learn more about general ICT.

Pantyffynnon Youth - Digital Story

Over the last couple of months Carmarthenshire Connect has been working with the youth of Pantyffynnon on a blogging and digital story workshops.

"The youth involved have thouroghly enjoyed learning about blogging and how to make their own digital stories."

(Phill adding the finishing touches to their digital story)

Please watch their digital story below:

We hope to see more digital stories for this group of youths in the future.

Pantyffynnon DJ Workshops

This year the team at Pantyffynnon C F will be organising Dj workshops for the youth of Ammanford.

We asked the youth of Pantyffynnon :


What sort of music would you mix?


Why does Djing interest you?


Siobhan says "i would mix dance and hardcore and im interested in djing because i loves music"

phil says" i would like to mix dance music cause it has good beats in it , djing interested me cause i like loud music"


sorcha says" i would like to mix dance and hardcore music and im intesested in djing because it sounds like a good laugh"

gavin says"i would like 2 mix whatever tickles my fancy and im interested in djing coz u can have slaming music and have a good laugh"

This was posted by the Youth of Ammanford.

Switch On At Pantyffynnon

The community of Pantyffynnon turned out in force to watch the switching on of their Christmas lights on Friday 7th December.




Despite the cold and the rain, a happy crowd counted down to the important moment when Carol Cadman, Secretary of the Action group, switched on the lights.

Pantyffynon Youth Group

We were asked our favourite place in the world is and why

gavin jonse 19

Pantyffynnon Youth Group

We were asked what our favourite place in the world was and why?

I've chose cypris because it is sunny and you can go jetskiying.

My name is lee and i am 15 years old.

Pantyffynnon Youth Group

We were asked what our favourite place in the world is and why?


audio clip of siobhan gibbons age 19

i am siobhan gibbons and im 19.

Pantyffynnon Youth Group

We were asked what our favorite place in the world was and why?

Hi.I am codie i am 16 and i have chosen lanzarote because it is one of my dreams to go there and see my auntie who i have not seen in more than two years and i want to see her and i want to see my cousins.