Breaking Barriers x Salford Community Leisure x GM Arts
About the Project: What About Me?
The project is called ‘What About Me?’ and it’s an exploration of the thoughts, feelings and stories of young people in Salford that will be created in 2025 with the youth voice at the centre of its creation process.
What About Me? is an exciting large-scale project that will be co-created with a professional team of creatives alongside young people of Salford. Stories, photos, recordings and film clips will be collected by young people and presented as a guided walk through a prime location in Salford, taking over spaces and empowering young people to share their perspective on What About Me?
The project has already seen an R&D (Research and Development) phase where we delivered 8 creative sessions with young people in Salford to explore different arts and crafts and creative techniques such as filmmaking, photography, tie-dye, spoken word etc. From these sessions we then asked the young people what they enjoyed and what they would like to do next. The project ‘What About Me?’ is a direct response to their wants / needs – which was for a large-scale, digital storytelling piece with a mixture of arts techniques.
The project is commissioned by Salford Community Leisure and GM Arts, and will be delivered in partnership with Breaking Barriers, offering a unique partnership approach to co-created projects.
Applicant Criteria:
As part of ‘What About Me?’, we are building 6 new roles for young adults (18-25) to become our Assistant Team, working alongside the core Creative Team to make, create and deliver an exciting, large-scale production in 2025. As well as this role we are also recruiting 5 other Assistant Roles – do have a look through all roles to check which one suits you best.
This is an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Filmmaker to assist the Filmmaker with gathering and collating film material with young people from Salford, that will be used as marketing materials and in the final production itself.
We encourage applicants of all experience levels, including those without formal work experience or job titles, to apply. This is an opportunity to build or develop skills in Filmmaking and storytelling for an exciting creative project in Salford.
All candidates must be 18 – 25.
The ideal candidate will:
- Live in, Work in or Study in, Salford metropolitan borough.
- Have an interest in photography, and has perhaps studied it at school/college or has a keen interest at home.
- Want to gain more experience in Filmmaking and in learning how it can be used in a real-life production
- Have a strong interest, education or experience in filmmaking, as well as an understanding or interest of using cameras, lighting and editing.
- Have a passion/experience for working with underrepresented communities and with young people.
- Have excellent communication skills; written and verbal.
- Be excited by the prospect of exploring and creating a cultural project that uses digital technology and storytelling to engage communities and audiences.
- Have strong IT skills, organisational skills and time keeping.
- Be comfortable working from home on a semi-regular basis, and having online meetings on Zoom or Teams.
- Be comfortable travelling to different locations around Salford for the work, to meet with different young people, community groups and to work on location.
- Be comfortable with working with younger people, and having a flexible approach to working, as well as making young people feel welcomed.
- The role also requires the need for Safeguarding Training and an updated DBS. (We can cover the costs of this if you haven’t already got one).
The Assistant Filmmaker will be working closely with the Filmmaker, Artistic Director (Parvez Qadir) and Executive Producer (Jodie Ratcliffe), as well as the wider creative team, to plan and execute the delivery of the project. We’re looking for someone who can work well in a team as well as be able to work independently.
LOCATION: The majority of the work will happen in Salford, but there might be some work in the Breaking Barriers Office in Rochdale (to be discussed on a case-by-case basis), as well as working remotely at home and online.
FEE: £1,800.00
To include 12 days’ work between January 2025-October 2025
A typical day is Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm, but there might be some evening or weekend work required as the project develops. This will be discussed on a case-by-case basis.
An additional £50 will be paid to cover travel costs to the project location.
TERM: Freelance
We welcome applications from the Global Majority and artists underrepresented in the arts and would particularly love to hear from people from Salford.
How To Apply:
There are different ways to apply so that you can choose which one suits you best, please read the options below:
WRITTEN: Please send a CV and supporting statement (no longer than 1-page)
VIDEO OR AUDIO: If you’d prefer to send us a video or audio application, please send a clip no longer than 2-minutes.
Your application should outline what makes you a great fit for this role and why you’re eager to apply for this position, even if you’re new to the field.
If you have any creative work (e.g. photos, social media, links etc) that you’re proud of, feel free to include this in your application at the end of your statement / clip. This can be a fun way for us to get to know a little bit more about you!
Send all applications to: breakingbarriersprojects@gmail.com
DEADLINE to Apply – Sunday 5th January 2025 5pm
Interviews – w/c 13th January 2025
Start Date if successful – w/c 10th February 2025
If you’re interested in reading about the other Assistant Roles available on this project, please check out the link here: News | Breaking Barriers Rochdale
What About Me? is produced by Breaking Barriers. Commissioned by Greater Manchester Arts (GM Arts), Salford Community Leisure and funded by GMCA Spirit.
Assistant Roles on the project was made possible thanks to funding provided by Salford City Council Place Partnership Team.