Learn more about what we do by looking at some of our current and recent productions. For more information on our work, email info@cornucop.co.uk or see our  full contact details.

Connecting Classrooms

A commission with the British Council to produce 3 documentaries about connecting classrooms and raising standards.

The programmes feature schools in the Veracruz state of Mexico and have been produced in Spanish for translation into Portugese and English.

The British Council is distributing the series in the UK and Latin America and the programmes are being broadcast on Teachers TV during 2009/10.

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Post 16 - Making a Difference

After working with the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation to produce 4 programmes for Teachers TV, the MBF invited us to produce a new programme on post-16 peer mentoring.

This was filmed across three locations in the UK and features mentors and mentees in University, at an FE college and in a youth project. It explores common themes and issues in setting up and supporting a peer mentoring project and is being used by the MBF in its training programme and for wider dissemination.
 

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Learning to Cook

Charged with bringing cooking to Teachers TV we have developed an engaging pupil centred format to reveal the unique place of cooking and food technology in the curriculum and life of the school.

The range covered in the first four programmes includes inner city Community Schools, a new Academy and a rural Secondary school with its own farm.

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This continuing strand now includes a personality led format called 'Chef's Challenge' based on the Chef’s 'Adopt a School' scheme run by the Academy of Culinary Arts.

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RSC Rehearsals

We have had privileged access to rehearsal rooms during several RSC productions and have filmed and edited a number of extracts for their education website.

The rehearsal room poses several unique production challenges. Working with the RSC, we have developed special techniques to capture the rehearsal process and the evolving performances. Most recently we have produced a film of the entire balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, in rehearsal with Director Neil Bartlett.

Extracts are featured in a new RSC web-based resource to support the teaching of Shakespeare to Key Stage 3 pupils.

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Peer Mentoring

A series of 4 programmes made as a co-production with Teachers TV and the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation.

The programmes explored relationships between mentors and mentees and peer mentoring schemes in schools across the UK. It required sensitive handling and skillful editing to achieve both an authentic and engaging end result.

The series was first broadcast in 2008.

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Scrapping the Timetable at Hook

A one-off programme produced for Teachers TV in their innovation slot.

This programme follows a day in the life of Hook Primary School in Yorkshire. The programme reveals a way of working with no fixed timetable and no doors to the classrooms.

Using fly on the wall techniques it explores the intimacy and team work that lies at the heart of this outstanding and innovative school.

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RSC Staged Scenes

In 2006/7 The Royal Shakespeare Company hosted a year-long festival of the entire Shakespeare canon at its Stratford-upon-Avon Home. The 'Complete Works' was the biggest festival in the RSC's history.

We produced filmed extracts taken from 10 plays in the festival. These were filmed on stage in the RSC’s 3 theatres in Stratford and edited in house at Cornucopia for use as EPK's (broadcast quality extracts for press and TV) and to be featured on the RSC web site.

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Sleeping Beauty

We have produced two full length, high quality, multi camera productions of major Christmas shows for the Young Vic that challenge the reputation of filmed theatre as lacking engagement.

Primarily to promote worldwide co-production. Both shows were written and directed by Rufus Norris, 'Sleeping Beauty' and the hugely successful 'TinTin in Tibet’. They were filmed in the main house at the Barbican Centre in London in front of live audiences.
 

Showcase

A 24 part series of 30 minute, studio-based programmes presented by Andrew Burroughs and produced for Teachers TV.

The series is aimed at primary and secondary school teachers and showcases what’s on offer from the Channel 4 and BBC schools' output to support learning. Co-produced with Illumina Digital and first broadcast in 2006.