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Wednesday Jan 14, 2009

And scene...

The finished film and 'behind the scenes' were screened at a sharing event where all the various groups came together. Young people from different schools in east London had been working on separate projects – radio, drama, photography and film. Our group was first up, and the young people did a fab job of introducing the film. It was very well received, and I genuinely think ours was the best –though perhaps I would say that ; ).

 I had such a fun and challenging time on the project. It was better than I imagined it would be and I definitely felt I would miss collaborating with the young people. Though it may sound cliched, I really hope the project helped the students see what they are capable of achieving and I look forward to seeing what they do in the future.

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Thursday Jan 08, 2009

Sing for the Moment

In this last session we worked more on the editing process. One of the young people S aspires to be a music producer, and he took the opportunity to create an original song related to the film. He wrote the rap lyrics and music, and it turned out great!

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Thursday Jan 01, 2009

Making the cut...

We started working on the editing process – first watching the rushes and doing a paper edit, which involves writing down which parts you want to include. We then moved onto the actual edit, teaching the young people how to use the editing program on the computer. One group edited the film and the other edited the ‘behind the scenes’. We also had to film the different manifesto points. The one related to ‘allowing music on buses’ involved Anna and some of the young people jumping onto a bus and playing their music on the top deck. One of the young people who ‘wanted his voice to be heard’ had to shout this in the Sainsbury’s car park – who says filming is glamorous?! Though definitely one of the funniest moments was when we were going to film at the chicken shop. One of the manifesto points was ‘More choice in school canteens’. As the food of choice was fried chicken we were filming in a takeaway. There sitting in the takeaway happily munching away was one of our students skiving from the session! He was definitely shocked to see us but had great attendance after that.

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