LCC, ADULT PROMO – FEATURE LENGTH DESCRIPTIVE TRANSCRIPT
Interviewees: Joanne Dye, Director of Operations and Curriculum, Adult, Community & ESOL (SPEAKING) – Charmaine, Hairdressing Level 2 student (SPEAKING) – Samira, LCC Teaching Assistant, former ESOL Learner (SPEAKING) – Joanne, Counselling Level 4 student (SPEAKING)
Music – Atmospheric synths swell in the background, a piano plays a bright melody.
Scenery – The camera shows close-ups of different learning environments, starting with a small class in a bright, light classroom where a seated student and tutor engage in animated conversation at a wooden desk. Then, to a student in a salon suite, dispensing product on their hand before running it through a person’s type 4 coily, black hair. The student pulls a silly face as they both laugh and smile.
We are introduced to Joanne Dye, who sits in a muted grey room with candles, plants, and dark grey shutters in the background. Joanne has chestnut-brown, shoulder-length hair, wears a navy blue cardigan, and has a pale, golden-toned complexion.
Speaker: Joanne Dye – “Hi, I’m Jo, and I’m director of Operations and Curriculum for Adult, Community and ESOL. What sets us aside from other courses that are available for adults, is that we have got such a wide range of courses on offer for adults, and we deliver everywhere. So we’re in community settings and in the city centre…”
Scenery – We are shown different learning environments, including a brightly-lit cooking suite where students sit at stainless-steel worktops decorating biscuits, a classroom, and a student gently washing someone’s hair in a salon suite. The camera pans to show the front of a red brick building with a large sign that reads Seacroft Community Hub in blue text. A Post Office logo and Leeds City College logo are on either side of the text, and a window sticker reads ‘Deacon House’. The camera then cuts to aerial footage of a large red brick campus with a Victorian clock tower and modern paving and gardens.
Speaker: Joanne Dye – “What people will be really surprised at is the range of options for them as an adult learner. So, we’ve got courses that are really short courses and that might include floristry, to tasters in-in how to get into teaching assistants, for example. To, er, fuller courses which are around professional developments – so we might have accountancy, to-from science, sports massage and sports therapy, to engineering classes… got travel and tourism, horticulture-type classes – you name it, we’ve got such a broad range of options.
That means we can help thousands of students every year be really successful, erm, at both starting out adult education again- maybe rejoining adult education… Just achieving a GCSE in maths and English at that grade 4, that is the holy grail that employers are looking for. We do an awful lot of-of working and supporting adults through all of that. So whatever they want, we can help them do.”
Scenery – The camera cycles through different learning environments and scenarios, starting with a focus on three tutors. One speaks animatedly at a steel counter while holding a small bowl filled with icing and a spoon, another gestures and speaks in front of a digital presentation board. Another speaks while demonstrating an anatomical model in a science lab setting. The camera then moves to students in different learning situations, including massaging a person’s legs, lifting and carefully observing a piece of machinery, reading and discussing literature, painting nails, and lifting weights and kettlebells in a gym setting.
We are introduced to Charmaine, a Level 2 Hairdressing student who sits in an empty salon suite. Surrounded by beauty stations with black leather salon chairs and tall mirrors, the room is warmly lit and has wood floors and fittings. Charmaine wears an all-black salon uniform and has a medium-deep, bronze complexion and black shoulder-length, type 3 corkscrew curl hair with a soft fringe.
Speaker: Charmaine – “My first career was in social work with adults, and… I burned out really badly. And, I took a few years off cos I had to – I didn’t have much choice, and I realised that I didn’t want to spend my life behind a computer. And being in public service just… wasn’t aligning to my values, and I actually wondered what I was thinking…”
Scenery – Charmaine stands behind a backwash sink in a bright salon suite with large windows showing traffic outside. She shakes a bright orange bottle while smiling and speaking to someone sitting backwards, with their head in the sink. She carefully washes their black, type 4 coily hair before being joined by a tutor who stands, observes and joins the conversation. We are then shown Charmaine spraying product in the person’s hair before gently massaging it to their ends and speaking through a tall mirror.
Speaker: Charmaine – “I was quite daunted in regards to the financial side – in coming back to college. But it’s been… it-it couldn’t have been any better because I’ve actually got the courses free. And I didn’t know that initially, actually, it was all fully funded by local authority funding, and that was such a help to me. I mean, it really did make a massive difference. It’s been absolutely fantastic, and I don’t think the college really shout about that enough – how much funding there is available for adult learners.”
Scenery – The camera shows Charmaine continuing to style the person’s hair in the salon environment as they chat and laugh together.
We are introduced to Samira, a former student who is now a Teaching Assistant at Leeds City College. Samira sits at a wooden table in a classroom with deep blue window frames in the background that let in bright daylight. Samira wears a dark blue and coral-patterned top, has long dark brown hair with warm highlights, and has a cool-toned olive complexion.
Speaker: Samira – “I can remember the first days, erm, when I came to Leeds City College Enfield Centre. I had many barriers. The first and the most important barriers was childcare – and finance as well. And, on that time, the college childcare advisor – she helped me to find a nursery, nearby my house. She called them and speak on behalf of me and booked a placement for my kid, which I couldn’t sort it out myself.”
Scenery – The camera shows Samira in a bright, modern classroom, speaking enthusiastically with a student. The student sits at a desk, speaking and smiling. Samira stands and leans over, adding notes and pointing at the student’s paper with a blue pen. Samira writes enthusiastically as the student watches and gestures with their own pen.
Speaker: Samira – “At Leeds City College, er, always, there is an understanding that, er, adult learners come with barriers and needs. I found the ESOL department as a welcoming community of adult learners. And, er, always people who work in, ESOL department, they are just there for support and understanding students, and there is a real sense of friendship between staff and students.”
Scenery – We are shown a bright white room with students seated in pairs at personal desks, speaking and smiling with each other. We meet Joanne, a Level 4 counselling student who sits in the now empty room, backlit by natural light from four rectangular windows on the back wall. Joanne has short red hair with a deep side part, a pale, rosy-toned complexion and wears red cat-eye glasses and a white cable-knit top.
Speaker: Joanne – “I had a really difficult…time in my life.I had to leave work because of it; I was really depressed, really anxious, had lots of traumatic things happen, so I decided to see a therapist. I had a therapist that was integrative, so they used person-centred counselling and CBT, which is not something the NHS offer – it’s something that costs a lot of money.”
Scenery – The camera shows Joanne sitting in a library environment with a small group of fellow students and a tutor. Sitting around a circular wooden table, they lean on open books and smile as they speak and discuss the text. A close-up shows a student following a page’s words with their finger, while other students point at sentences and words with pens, fingers and one student gestures. The camera cuts to Joanne confidently reading aloud from a book.
Speaker: Joanne – “So once I’d done that, decided – you know what? I’m gonna go on the other side of the table. So decided to start studying therapeutic counselling. I want to offer people better-priced therapy because it helped me so much – I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t had that therapy. So, obviously I’m living my life now because of that therapy and want to give low-cost counselling and opportunities to other people like myself in that position. So I started at Level 2, moved onto Level 3 and now I’m in the middle of Level 4.”
Scenery – The camera shows different learning and teaching environments, including Joanne with her fellow students, a student doing cable crossover exercises on an exercise machine, and a tutor carefully guiding a student through a textbook. The camera returns to Joanne Dye, Director of Operations and Curriculum for Adult, Community & ESOL. Joanne remains seated in the soft-grey room and smiles as she speaks.
Speaker: Joanne Dye – “For any adult who is daring to take up one of our courses and have been thinking about it for a while but just not quite taken that step, I-I would say – come and talk to us. We’ve got a really wonderful, supportive team that are out in communities, that are at our open events and our open days. They can talk to you and understand what it is that you really want, what you need, what you want to get out of a course. We have students that range from age 19 right into their 70s that come and access our courses. If you’re scared to do something full-throttle, then come and do some of the community classes, which just help ease you back in.
There’s always something to learn. It’s good for your brain, it’s good for your health, it’s good for your mental health, for your physical health, and… you are simply never too old to learn.”
Scenery – The camera shows more learning environments, including a tutor wearing a white laboratory suit who stands and speaks to two students who nod, a student who gestures, smiles and speaks with a tutor at a round table, and a tutor who raises their arm upwards while talking to a group who listens carefully. The camera moves to a large room with people of different ages standing and speaking to someone off-screen as a group walks away in the background.
Scenery – The screen fades to black before turning to light green. A black Leeds City College logo appears with text that reads ‘Courses for 19+ learners’. At the bottom of the screen, the black text reads: Visit leedscitycollege.ac.uk/adult
Music – The synths fade to silence, and the piano plays a final note.
