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Tuesday Nov 11, 2008

Justice will be served

We finished watching the film 'Twelve Angry Men', in which they find the young man not guilty. It was a powerful ending, but I'm not sure now how much of our film will be based on this, though the theme is still youth justice, the location now is... the Tower of London! So we need to fit our story around that. I think I'm more excited about the location than the young people are! As my parents have never been much inclined towards the tourist trail, so I'm looking forward to rectifying this...

We began loosely working on an idea that the young people now rule the world and figuring out why this is and just what they are going to do with this new found power.... Unsurprisingly a lot desired the dramatic demise of unpopular teachers and less school time! But some more serious points made it through also.

We also worked on characters for the film, one of my favourites was Jade, who 'is a racer like Lewis Hamilton, likes to show off, has a pretty face and everyone hates her'! We then played a game called 'Agree – Disagree' whilst in character. This involved the reading out of statements, if your character agreed you stood at one end, if they disagreed at the other. We used points from the manifesto for this and contentious views like 'young people should be seen and not heard'. Then you were asked to justify your opinion in relation to the statement whilst staying in character. This game established what it is to be the character and to look at things from their perspective. Next week we will finalise the manifesto ideas with votes from the young people.

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