Choose a different ending:
Audience: 13-19 year olds
Likes and dislikes:
- It's like a deterance
- The song at the end didn't work as it didn't make sense
- The sexy girls are a contradiction
- It looked like an amateur film
- It would be better longer
- It's stereotypical - young people will always get stop and searched
- Liked the choices - they are like your conscience
- It makes you think
- They could have made it more realistic - not everyone knows everyone in their area or are part of a gang
- The part where his friend offers him the knife is unrealistic as it would never just happen that way
Teen talent takes over 10 Downing Street:
Audience: Government, teenagers, curriculum leaders of the area and anyone with space
Message:Young people need their own space to be creative
Likes and dislikes:
- The free running puts you off- It changes youth stereotyping
- The message is clear - we need space
- It means something being filmed at 10 Downing Street
- Liked the setting and talent - they both make it fun and serious at the same time
- It gets people's attention
- There's lots of stuff out there similar to it for young people - so it's not memorable
Beat the bully:
Audience: Secondary school age
Message:Don't just struggle, help someone if they are getting bullied or report it
Likes and dislikes:
- It's a little unrealistic with the phone bit - the name of the bully came up when she text (you wouldn't have a bully's name stored in your phone)
- Liked the setting
- The fight was realistic - in schools there is always a swarm of people
- It's hard to feel sorry for the boy
- The teacher bit is unrealistic as nobody usually finds out
- It needs something extra to give the viewer more empathy - it needed a starting point
- We would set in more on social networking websites
Storyboards and shot list:
We discussed that we need to come up with the script before we do storyboarding, but this is something that we will have to do.
The shot list that we want to use for our film is:
- Wide shot
- Mid shot
- Close-up
Ideas:
We all came up with three ideas that we wanted to make our film about and fed them back to the rest of the group.
Scene ideas:
We worked on discussing some scene ideas:
We want to have two scenarios:
1. A gang culture scenario
2. An in school bullying scenario
- The storyline will focus on the friend of two boys.One of the boys is getting bullied and the other is contemplating joining a gang.
Comments:
Campaigning:
- You have to have something that you want to change.
- We are the next generation of olders so let's change this now
Bullying:
- Don't take things into your own hands
- Situations escalate from in school and carry on outside of school
- Somebody always takes it too far
Our Message:
It stops with us!
We finished up the session by starting the proposal form and filling in feedback forms.
