This Scottish project involves the creation of video and audio materials to form an oral archive reflecting the lives of a bilingual, Hebridean community. The videos comprise of short, informative documentaries on key issues in community and business life. They are scripted in plain language and use authentic interviews with individual community members. These materials are an excellent resource for Gaelic learners and those with a particular interest in community life in the Hebrides.

As an extension of the project the college has worked with a community training partner and other bodies to use the videos as an inspiration to learners to make their own films. This has proved to be a great success and examples of the home made videos include a day centre client recording his own Gaelic voiceover and Polish and Latvian workers at a local shellfish processing plant making a film about their lives.

The project is opening doors to further productive film making in a range of languages and with a variety of themes. By showing what is possible with a laptop and camera it has inspired a range of community language teaching enterprises.

Language(s): Scottish Gaelic

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is a unique learning environment; it is the only college in the world where all higher education provision and the running of the College is conducted in Scottish Gaelic. It is committed to being a centre of excellence for the development and enhancement of the Gaelic language, culture and heritage. This project was partly Leonardo funded.