Introductory Session - Restart Sessions - Bringing New People Into The Group - 11/4/12

This session we were all really happy to be back and on track with our film. There were some new people that came to sign up for our sessions to help make our campaign brilliant.

Filling everyone in on our previous progress:
Djed filled all of the new people in on what we had done so far on our film.

Role preference:
Karl and Michael are keen to be behind the camera and everyone else is happy to be either in front of or behind the camera.

Ideas:
We all came up with some suggestions as to how and where we can share our film:
- Posters around the school (on the big screens)
- Show it in assemblies
- We can put it on the school's online page - frog or ispace - the school's idevelopment space.

We all agreed that we are keen to take our film into other schools once it is finished.

Some fresh ideas that we we all discussed to make the film about are:
- Cyber bullying
- Bullying in school (too cliché)
- Estate/bullying outside schools - continues
- Gangs - going into unknown territories
- Stereotypes - immigration bullying
- The way people dress
- Homosexuality
- Obesity
- Anorexic - more the way people look

What is a campaign?
We all discussed other campaigns that we know and that a campaign's main purpose is to make a change.
- Amnesty - a peace campaign
- Make poverty history

Our Campaign:
We want to make a change by making a short film. We want our audience to be 12-16 year olds. We want young people to come to our campaign, think for a while or signpost them on.

How can we make our campaign appeal?
- Refer our film to other films to make it more relevant - i.e. the Daminola Taylor case.

Where do we want to see our campaign?
- Bus stops where young people wait
- School assemblies
- School lessons
- Facebook/YouTube
- Screens around school

Evaluation:
We filled in our feedback forms and look forward to next week's session where we can get started on our campaign.