Menspace Laura, Jenny, Kit and Pierce

What is Menspace?• Health For All – specifically Menspace works to assist

people in particular communities of interest to overcome barriers to participate and access to services.

• Menspace engages men and boys in a variety of positive activities in addition to dads groups including horticulture, organising community festivals, growing vegetables in the allotment and fishing. It’s a project which helps men lead healthier, more fulfilled lives and encourages them to get out into the community and make a difference.

• It gives the dads an opportunity to take their children to fun activities without worrying about cost.

• It’s also partnered with ‘The Bridge’ (a group which organises walks with participants with learning disabilities).

Things to consider/potential problems

• Filming- are the men happy for us to film? How can we help make it a relaxed environment? Maybe we need to meet them without equipment to build a more genuine relationship?

• How are we going to film the walk- walking with a camera will be shaky so we need to think of an alternative, possibly getting ahead of the group and setting up the camera on a tri-pod?

• What is the most relevant information to put in the 3 minute edit. Do we need to create 2 versions?

• We need to consider our audience when conversing with people to ensure we don’t offend anyone

Our aims:

• Our group wants to focus on the dads group, which includes the dads cooking club and walking group.

• We want to spend time with the groups before filming so we can get to know them and so they are comfortable in our presence while filming.

• Our film is designed to capture a feel of the groups, possibly with a few short interviews with some of the members in order to promote the Menspace project.

Filming Plan

• Jan 18th- Go to meet groups, no equipment

• 21st- meet walking group (1pm)• 23rd- Film monthly cooking group (5:30-

7:30pm)• 25th- Film dads group (am and pm) • 28th- Film walking group (1pm) • Feb 1st – Film Dads groups (am and pm)• Feb 12th- Tetley feast deadline

We look forward to working with this group and sharing the results, thank you for listening.