Our First Presentation - 9/11/12

We held our first presentation at Pimlico Academy during I Space at 10.30am to an audience of 2 students. We were all very nervous, as this was our very first presentation of our campaign but we were really happy that we had a group to share our film with.

During the presentation everyone was really quiet and listened to what we had to say. We were really happy that we were able to engage our audience.

After our presentation there were lots of questions that we had to answer, which was really great because it meant that everyone was really interested in our campaign.

Each one of our team worked with a small discussion group of students to discuss how our film was made and gang violence issues. It was really interesting to hear what other students at our school thought.

One girl said, "I think it would be better to tell someone if I was in that situation instead of keeping it to myself."

Our Ambition Films group decided that for our next presentation we need more slides on our PowerPoint presentation.

Our next presentation will be to the whole school at Pimlico Academy on 28 November 2012. We are all really excited and nervous as this will be the biggest crowd that we have presented our campaign to so far. We hope that this will share our message wider and get others to share our campaign with their friends.

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

Session 2 - Restart Sessions - Starting Work On The Script And Allocating Roles - 25/4/12

We started off the session by welcoming another two new members to the group.

Recap on the last session:
- Focus on two friends in different scenarios
- Came up with loads of ideas
- Watched videos of other campaigns

Stages of creating a film:
We discussed the different stages of creating a film.
- Pre-production (storyboards, ideas, scripting, allocating roles, actors, etc)
- Production (the pysical creation of the film)
- Post-production (the edit)

Proposal paperwork:
We discussed the proposal form which is needed for the funding for the project. This helped us to straighten out specific elements of our campaign.

How does a film set work?
We did a really fun activity to demonstrate how a film set works and who's who.

Each one of us represented each of the elements of creating a film and stood in a line to see what stage we were currently at :
Ideas > script > writer > producer > camera person > sound person > director/assistant director
               ^
This is the stage that we are at

Then we acted out different roles to see how a film set would work during filming:



Roles:
Everybody wants to be in the film as actors and Djed wants to be the director.

Discussing the script:

The story is about peer pressure, bullying and decisions that a young boy faces to join a gang.

It will be two seperate stories being told at the same time:
- Shot identically
- Split screen
- Message - It stops with us

The story is about a young boy (Max) who's friend (Billy) is being bullied and contemplating joining a gang. Max speaks to his mum/dad about the situation but will it be to late to help Billy?

- The gang wants Billy to be a runner of cash (£1000)

We worked on putting a rough script together as we have a script writer coming into our next session to help us write it properly.

Feedback:
We filled in feedback forms and the session came to an end.