WDYK Campaign BIG ISSUE NORTH!

Taking the Campaign on the Road!

Presenting the work to Magistrates at Barnsley Courts Open Day before running a workshop at Barnsley YOT Attendance Centre


Presenting to Barnsley Drug and Alcohol Action Team and Service Commissioners at the Service User Involvement Presentation Event.

Ad Campaign Launches

After weeks of hard work, dedication and passion the team complete their ad campaign and launch it at the CRI conference to rapturous applause. Delegates were amazed by the quality and power of the work. Congratulations to the whole team and everyone who enabled this film to happen. Check out their film here. You can be part of making the campaign go further by sharing the links and posting it on networking sites. Peace IY

The conference was well attended and the exhibition received a great deal of attention throughout the day.



The crew took the opportunity to showcase their film in a series of workshops; the feedback was electric!

Finally the group took to the stage to recieve their commendations from the CEO himself, David Royce. The crowd went wild!

Production Day 3

Well its been a brilliant week! The performances were outstanding, the commitment and energy levels were very high and the quality of footage is very encouraging. The crew were inspirational from start to finish over a packed shooting schedule and the mood was always upbeat. The group have done their job, its now time for Inspired Youth to do ours. Keep an eye on the BLOG for updates on the edit and plans for screening.

Emley - Session 11

We were all made aware of the health and safety issues especially bearing in mind that we were in an unusual setting. As we were going to be depicting some scenes that were pretty close to home for some us we double checked that we were all OK with what we would be doing.

(1.1, 2.2, 3.4)

I based my performance around mental breakdown and personal experiences of panic attacks, etc.

I tried to use body language and exaggerated actions to try to invoke tension and desperation.

Feedback was positive and I was happy.

(2.1, 2.3, 3.2)

Kev was directing throughout basedon our ideas and I tried to follow his instructions re posture and thinking about light as well as I could.

I’ve never been filmed before or acted so all the skills learnt up to the shoot were new to me the drama work with Ste really helped with this.

I was nervous at first at the thought of performing but soon felt comfortable with it. I thought the audience reacted well. And I felt happy with the feedback.

My main weakness would be lack of confidence but I gave it a shot. Enjoyed the session very much.

(3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3)

Tinker - Session 11

We were all made aware of the health & safety issues. We asked each other first if we were all ok doing the scenes. We had to make sure we were aware of fire exits and had to be wary because there are a lot of exits.

We were aware of peoples past issues and we made sure they were comfortable doing certain scenes.

(1.1, 2.2, 3.4)

I used my own experience what I went through my self I would like to make it a realistic as possible. I gave m y ideas to other people I listened to all the feedback given to me it was positive feedback.

(2.1, 2.3, 3.2)

Dixie directing the scene, I had to pretend I was emotions and crying and things like that. We were drawing from our own experience e of being in prison for the first time. It was fairly realistic.

It was like trying to use as much realistic body language as possible. At first I wasn’t confident but afterwards I felt more relaxed.

I wanted my performance to be as realistic as possible so it gets the message across.

My feedback was good. The director was pleased with the way it came across.

I’ve lived through those experiences so I though my strengths were to show my experiences. I don’t think I found any of the performance difficult.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Apart from not being paid for my talent…!

Production Day 2