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Wednesday Mar 30, 2011

Getting out of homelessness

I wanted to tell people, how difficult it is to get out of being homeless. I went to university to study sports science, but I struggled with money. I had to leave my course because I couldn't afford it. The university was going to help me with my fees but the money didn't come for ages. Lot's of students get jobs while they are studying, but this makes life difficult. I had to leave university and live in a hostel.

In this part of the film, it highlights the issues of people trying to escape the "homeless trap" by going to university or college and struggling due to the other pressures they face, such as being able to afford it.

Stephane.

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Monday Mar 21, 2011

Homeless women

We agreed that we should have a girls part, as we wanted to show that girls can become homeless too. Charmaine agreed to play a girl that had been abused by her step-father and had ran away from home. We also wanted to show that it's not always easy to get housing as there's too many homeless people.This character ended up going to stay with someone she didn't know and while she was sleeping he came into her room (although we thought the audience should guess what happened then - but it wasn't good).

We now have 3 characters and have to work with an editor to see how we can put them together. We might do some interviews to let people know why we wanted to do these characters. We haven't decided yet if we are going to do more characters.

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Wednesday Mar 09, 2011

Our character David

This Monday we had the opportunity to start exploring another Character - David, David is a posh character, who hasn't got a job or doesn't go to college. His Dad gets angry with him for smoking weed and throws him out. He hasn't got any where to go so goes to be with his mate. His mate takes him to a party - where there is going to be nice girls, drugs and lots of alcohol.

We had to make a room look like his parents house for one scene and then went outside to shoot a scene in a park.

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Meet Charlene

My name is Charlene I am volunteering for Centrepoint. I'm going to tell you about our first all day session at the Bafta filming project so far we have been discussing our first scene and how we would go about shooting that part. Trez and Stephan were rehearsing the first scene and the group was helping them find the truth to the scene.

It was funny and interesting to see how it started to take shape with ideas being thrown in by members of the group. Then we were ready to get the cameras rolling and find a suitable spot to film outside by a bus stop, with Mohamed as camera man, Billy as director and Trez and Stephan as the actors in this scene. It was very productive and turned out well.

After lunch some of us were interviewed for the Bafta mentoring video where we were asked a series of questions on how well we have done so far and how we feel we have gained experience and skills so far in this project. We then set up for the final scene "Smoky's House" and after another brief rehearsal, shot the scene. I was going to play the part of Smoky's mother but we all decided there was no way Stephan could be my son so they pretended to speak to the mother on the phone instead. I am yet to have my starring role! But all in all the second scene went really well and we finished off by cleaning up the rooms we had used for filming.