Session 12 - Planning Our First Workshop - 17/10/12

New faces:

We welcomed two new faces to the group - William - who found out about our campaign through Mr Harris and Kent - who found out about the group through Nadia. We are all really happy new have new students to help us take our campaign to the next stage...school assemblies.

Who's going to say what?:

We discussed who wants to say each part of our presentation.

INTRODUCTIONS TO GROUP MEMBERS AND THE CAMPAIGN - Thomas

HOW WE FORMED - Nadia and Kent

WHAT IS THE FILM ABOUT? - Djed

STATS AND INTRODUCTION TO THE FILM - William

WHY GANG VIOLENCE? - Michael

QUESTIONS - Malachi

Writing down what we want to say:

We all worked on our parts and wrote down what we wanted to say as part of the presentation.

PowerPoint presentation and music:

We all put together a short PowerPoint presentation to show some visuals during our presentation. Nicholas also suggested that we use some music that he created during the period of time that our audience are sitting down ready for the presentation.

Finally we had a run through of our presentation so that we all understood when we needed to say our parts. Our first presentation will be on Friday 9 November during I Space at Pimlico Academy. We are really excited and nervous for our first public appearance. Who knows? we may become celebrities!

Session 11 - Feedback On Promotional Materials and Preparing To Take Our Campaign Into Schools - 2/10/12

Update:

We all gathered together and welcomed everyone back after our break. We had a quick update to see where everyone is and what they have been up too.

- Djed has been active on Twitter - we discussed teaming him up with Malachi so that we can keep the tweeting on track.

- Thomas has been finding the Facebook group annoying as he feels a page would be better - that way people can just like the page than having to add as a friend.

- Thomas has been busy finishing the draft script.

Introducing a designer:

Designer Nadia was introduced to the group and showed us three designs for promotional materials - postcards, logo and t-shirt designs. We discussed what we liked and what we wanted to change.

T-shirts:

- Can we have our names on the t-shirts?

The group fed back that they wanted the t-shirts to have their names on them. We all agreed that it would make the t-shirts look busy but that the idea of a name badge to wear anywhere would be a good compromise.

- I really like the t-shirt design - it is clear and appeals to young people

Logo:

- I like graffiti so the logo is cool for young people

- I love the design because it is modern and eye catching

- It suits the genre of the film really well

Postcard:

- I like everything about it

- It's a good idea and it appeals to young people

- I would put Malachi's face instead of mine on it

Poster idea:

We discussed that we liked the idea of having a poster that we could send over to schools to put up to promote our film and campaign coming to their school.

- A2

- landscape

- Still use the image of Michael from the film as it is a really strong image

- Use some of the copy off of the postcard

- Add get involved and details 

- Blank box at the bottom that other schools can write the date, time and place when the campaign will be coming to their school

What schools do we want to take our campaign too?

- Pimlico Academy - anti-bullying week in November (TBC)

- Greycoats

- QK

- St Thomas Moore

We need to contact the schools and ask if we can have a minimum of 30 minutes to run our workshop in their schools.

Peabody paperwork:

Andrew from Peabody came in to discuss a few things with us.

- We filled in evaluation forms

- Discussed an option of accreditation for our campaign

Accreditation:

We finished up the session by discussing the opportunity of being able to gain a qualification from all of the work we have done as part of our campaign. 

The dates when we will do this are TBC but the following members of the group are interested:

- Malachi

- Djed

- Thomas

- Michael Ajao