Really sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We’ve been waiting for Black Country Touring to confirm a few things for us.
Aardman are now kindly giving the film licence for free but they have quite strict marketing guidelines for us to follow so we are just in the process of getting together the artwork for the promotion of the event – which needs to be signed off/approved by Aardman – this should be early next week.
We’ve also been looking at the easiest option for our audiences to watch-along and join Q&A afterwards so that it’s accessible to everyone.
They have suggested a platform called Eventive, which seems to be the best option. Despite the cost if this is a successful ‘test run’/pilot we would like to do more like this with our audiences who are isolated within their own homes.
It will mean we can livestream and switch over to Zoom for the Q&A seamlessly everything will be in one place – the platform also include ticketing. Please can we re-allocate the costs to cover the one-off platform:
In response to the pandemic and lockdown restrictions, plans for Coseley’s Community Cinema had to be reimagined.
The Coseley Community Cinema applied for funding from Film Feels Connected, a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network, to reconnect with our local audience.
East Coseley Big Local worked in partnership with Black Country Touring, Film Feels Connected and Aardman Animations to bring a virtual Watch-along of Shaun the Sheep the Farmers Llamas followed by an interactive Q&A with voice actors from the film.
The online watch-along was aimed at people of all ages who may have been isolating, feeling uncomfortable about going out to the cinema, and families finding new ways to entertain their children during lockdown. The funding provided an opportunity to be creative and trial a new online activity for the community.
Community Connectors helped generate a build-up to the event with Pom-poms 4 Loneliness activities. They invited people, including the coffee morning group, to craft sheep pom poms in the build-up to the event. This collaboration enabled more isolated people to engage in the activity.