Over the past few weeks we have been attending the regular, bi-weekly ‘Father’s Group’ sessions run by Steve Bowers. These have revolved mainly around cooking, fires and tea, and have been great fun to participate in. Over the period of two sessions we have decided to work with the participants and make a cooking show - Episodes 1 and 2. The first week they focused on making sausage and bacon rolls, and in the second week we looked at pancake making. With the addition of craft activities and audio at relevant points we were able to make some neat little cooking shows, and hope it is a model we can continue over the project. These films have two strands to thier showing - they are both documentation of the sessions and fictional films in their own right. This is an interesting approach for the project, and more of this type of documenting would be good to do with the young people. We will definitely look at doing more of this; maybe we should call them ‘Fictionmentaries’? ‘Doctions’? Maybe we will let the children decide. Here are our finished products:

Cooking with Carousel: Bacon & Sausage Rolls from Workshops n’ Docs on Vimeo.

Cooking with Carousel: Pancakes from Workshops n’ Docs on Vimeo.