Talks
We deliver talks, seminars, practical workshops and presentations, as well as joining discussion panels, at schools, universities, community groups, conferences, festivals and other events. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
RGP’s Director Liz Crow has spoken at Liverpool Hope University, Bristol’s Spike Island,
DaDa Fest and Filton College, amongst others. She will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Disability Studies Festival at the University of Lancaster.
Topics include:
- RGP’s productions
- Practical production skills and project planning
- Cultural representation of disability
RGP’s productions
Tailored to suit your interests, we give the inside story of our productions – public success and seat-of-the-pants moments. Showing extracts from our work, we discuss what it means use the creative media as a tool for change.
Looking back over 11 years of filmmaking and 25 years of disability activism, RGP Director Liz Crow talks of a series of themes that consistently characterise her work. While characters and storylines typically include disabled people, the themes that recur – identity, resistance, survival and hope – are all part of our experience of being human.
Practical production skills and project planning
Planning your video project
We take participants through the planning process, defining their aims for the project and developing their initial ideas. At the end of the workshop, they should be ready to begin practical work on their film. The workshop will address the following topics:
- What do you want your film to achieve?
- Defining your audience
- Researching your subject
- Defining your approach and structure
- Storyboarding and scripting
- Technical decisions
- Budgets
Cultural representation of disability
Using examples from popular culture and their own work, participants will analyse visual representation of disabled people in a wide range of media and develop practical guidelines for use in their own work. Some of the questions for discussion include:
- What are the effects of representation?
- How is disability used?
- What messages are given?
- How real are the disabled characters lifestyles?
- What language and images are used?
- How are related issues portrayed, including race, sex, and sexuality?
