One to One Productions

Summary

The One to One Collection holds over 600 hours of video tape of communities in the Wakefield District and beyond. Filming began in 1988 and started out extensively documenting changes in communities through the demise of the mining industry, capturing the culture through to the ongoing regeneration of the Wakefield District. The Collection also includes work from all over the UK and overseas including China, Bhutan and Europe.

Most importantly this collection is a significant body of film work depicting the heritage and culture of the Wakefield District and its changing landscape.

The Collection divides into different themes including: Festivals and Galas, Community Arts, Regeneration, Sport and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing. There is a strong focus on community engagement throughout.

Analogue video tape has a life span of 10-15 years. Our oldest material was at risk of total deterioration and we have been undergoing an urgent process to save the material. Working in partnership with One to One Development Trust we are in the middle of a four year project to save the older tapes by re-mastering them on digital format, preparing more recent material for the web and building an online Archive which will be completed in 2010 as part of Wakefield's Summer of Culture celebrations.

In addition to making 50 hours of material available online, The One to One Collection aims bring together community groups across the District to contribute to it, promote their own community and gain support in their own archive work. The Archive will become a hub where films/material is accessible to the communities where they originated from.

In September 2009 the TIMELINE project began. A series of community screenings of local films is bringing about an increased awareness and interest in archive film. The project is encouraging people to bring out their old cine film and put it forward for inclusion in screenings.

The Collection through its online presence will provide an extensive insight into the culture and heritage of the Wakefield District to a global audience.