Last week filming got under way for the Buzz community video.  Buzz is an award winning community project based in our home town of Blaina.  As well as being the only place to rent a bike, or get your own bike fixed in Blaina, Buzz also provides health and safety training, bicycle maintenance training and organizes trips out varying from casual, easy going ride to an extreme downhill course.  Buzz was set up by local teenagers for local teenagers, and has grown from a recreational activity into a thriving social enterprise.  It aims to give the kids something to do and we think they pull it off well!

On Wednesday evening, the boys headed to Buzz headquarters in Blaina to gather some interviews and footage for the project.  Rob and Chris then headed up to Blaina skate park early on Sunday morning.  Armed with their trusty 7d and Z5, the boys where able to shoot some amazing looking footage.  The Buzz boys held nothing back during the shoot,  filling the hour spent filming with tricks and jumps a-plenty.

Rob is editing as we speak,  we’re all excited to see how the first in our string of short films for Communities First is going to turn out.  If the unedited footage is anything to go by the finished product is going to look amazing!  As soon as it’s finished we’ll post it here and you can all let us know what you think.

Here’s a few pictures from last week’s filming in Tredegar.  Making this film with a group of young people was a hugely enjoyable experience.  We were fortunate enough to take the team across for two days of the filming, which was quite an eye opener for the girls we were working with.  We aimed to make sure the filming process was as fun for them as it is for us, judging by the laughter I think we managed it.  We can’t wait to get them editing with Chris next week.

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This week the Like an Egg team will be driving across the Heads of the Valleys to Tredegar.  In a scheme with The Spirit of Bevan Partnership we will be helping a group of teenage girls make a short documentary about the foundations of the NHS and its architect Nye Bevan. Along with seven other videos the finished product will be used as a tour guide for Tredegar – home of Nye Bevan and the reason the NHS was founded.

This is the first of three films that we will be helping to make and we are looking forward to seeing what the girls will come up with. It will be a learning curve for both parties but hopefully really fun.

This project started with an idea we came up with last year. The Valleys hold such a great mountain of social history that its time new technologies were used to maximise this to the tourist industry. We set about approaching towns and organisations about the possibilities of video and mobile communications. The Spirit of Bevan Partnership is one of the first groups to make the idea a reality. We can’t wait for the results.