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Monday Nov 03, 2008

Take One:Action!

I am now a veteran of any name game you care to mention, and have found they definitely work as ice breakers and of course to learn names, which I was rather rusty at… We also played games to discover favourite things that we have in common, and unsurprisingly pizza was a top choice..!

The young people in the group are enthusiastic and ready to learn, which is fantastic. Of the 10 that were supposed to turn up we got less than half, which is disappointing but apparently our group is the best attended of all the different volunteering groups including drama, photography and radio. I’m hoping that as the kids get more into it they’ll tell others and this will hopefully increase our numbers. In order to track the young people’s development, we asked them to mark on a chart their knowledge of film from ‘nothing’ to ‘a lot’, it will be great to watch the progression of this.

We then got the young people to go through different shots on the camera including a wide-shot, pan and close-up and when you might use different shots like these. They took to it very quickly, and were soon zooming up one another’s nostrils with aplomb…

To introduce the theme of the film, which will be youth justice, we got the group to watch extracts from ‘12 Angry Men’, a film about the criminal justice system in America. Victoria (one of the directors of the project) wasn’t sure how interested the young people would be in this, as it was a film from the 1950s in black and white. It follows 12 members of a jury as they deliberate over whether they can find a young man guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Along with the rest of the group I was desperate to know the conclusion but we were left on a cliff hanger – which I look forward to being resolved in the next session…

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