Creative Funding Filmmaker Opportunity- £5000
Aberdeen City Council, External Partnerships, Culture team wish to commission a filmmaker to create a short promotional film (60 secs) to promote Creative Funding, and one short film (3-4 min) to showcase Creative Funding projects that have been awarded funding in 2022-23.
Filming will take place in Aberdeen between mid-October 2022 and March 2023. It is expected that the filmmaker will be flexible in their availability, within reason, at weekends, evenings, or when the projects are running between mid-October and March 2023, as many of the funded projects are organised on different weeks/days by various organisations.
Deadline for Applications: Wednesday 21st September 2022 at 12 noon.
Online Interview (teams): Friday 23rd September 2022
Filming to start mid-October – March 2023.
Creative Funding
The Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding programme offers the opportunity for cultural organisations with not for profit status, community groups, charities and individual artists or creatives to apply for funding to support or develop and/or deliver creative activity in Aberdeen.
This year March 2022-23, 22 organisations and 10 individuals have received funding for a wide range of projects.
The Film
The film maker would be expected to film and capture 10 of these new projects that have been awarded funding through this programme, to showcase the quality of the projects and different art forms, visual art, dance, theatre, sound and music. Also, to interview people from 2 of the organisations that have been awarded funding and 2 of their participants to show impact. There will also be a requirement to add titles, short phrases and sound to the film.
These projects are all in Aberdeen and developing at different times and include a mixture of creative engagement opportunities through workshops, exhibitions, performances, festivals and developing new creative spaces.
Projects such as:
- Lighting and sound workshops for participants who have disabilities including CPD for teachers. (From a filming perspective this would be in a darkened space with objects lit by movement).
- Written Word Festival fringe activity,
- Shop venue for creatives and workshops.
- Commissions for groups with protected characteristics.
- Heritage exhibition in a city centre venue.
- Development of a book of Doric prose.
- Rap musician project
- Two visual artists collaborating and showcasing their work in an exhibition.
- Dance performance and workshop for individuals in a health unit in the city.
- A writer creating new work
The role
The filmmaker will have creative film making skills, editing skills, time management and organisational skills.
The expectation would be that the filmmaker would liaise with the ACC Culture team, organisations and individuals to arrange a time to film the projects, that they would be flexible and undertake this work, within reason, at weekends, evenings, or when the projects are running between mid-October and March 2023.
The filmmaker has the ability to film 10 projects to create 2 films of 60 secs and 3-4 minutes in length, to highlight in each case, the artform, the aim of the project and scope of the project. The film is expected to be completed by the end of March 2023.
The aim is that a link to the film will be available to view on the Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding webpage. Creative Funding Awards | Aberdeen City Council
To apply
Please apply by sending in an application, (max 2 sides of A4) explaining, your interest in the commission and how you would approach it, also outlining previous experience and showing examples of your work.
Or you can apply by sending a video or voice recording (max 5 minutes) also explaining, your interest in the commission and how you would approach it and outlining previous experience. If submitting video/voice material, please use an unlisted u tube link. Previous examples of your work can be sent via links to sites or sent through a file sharing service.
Please also include a CV and 2 references.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday 21st September 2022 at 12 noon.
Contact: any questions regarding the commission please contact creativefunding@aberdeencity.gov.uk