Chanice's Story

I was involved in the other project, H-town or Outtatown. I’m a very committed person and come nearly every week. We are now doing another project based on young people and police. We thought of the idea by our different experiences with the police, we also wanted to show people our different views about them. We started off with meetings then put out different funding applications. We got money off the RSA and then got money off the Youth opportunity funds.

We interviewed different people from all age groups and acted out a specific scene of our experience. We edited and produced a docudrama. Many people had a lot of different views and strong points. We also interviewed some police. We wrote the scripts and acted out the scenes. We tried our hardest to bring out the best of our ability and hopefully will be better than our first project. We hope you will see it when it’s finished and hopefully get a good response back.

Jenine's Story

I was involved in out first film H-Town or Outatown. I was the assistant director. After we finished that film, we enjoyed it so much that we applied for some money to do another film project. This time we wanted it to be a docudrama about Police and youths. My role has been providing refreshments for the group. We got given a certain amount of money to buy snacks. I enjoyed this project very much and I hope that this is continued…
By Jenine <3 x

Lydia's Story

I was the wonderful Alice Nicholas’s replacement and was responsible for the drama development within the film project.
Although highly stressful, it has been an exciting journey with an amazing outcome.
The young people had really good ideas and worked hard to achieve a piece that reflected their views and the views of others.
I hope they are as proud as I am of their achievements and I hope they continue to work hard in all aspects of their lives because, when they put their minds to it they really do produce work of a high standard.

Daniel's Story

I found out about this film project from other people and posters around my area. I knew I should come because I knew it will be fun and keep me and my friends off the streets. The project has been a great success because we have had a lot of different people from different boroughs coming and learning new things about filming.

People experiences with the police I think is bad because most people are in big crews and most people follow the crowds and their friends.

Ismael's Story

I am a detached youth worker who has been working in Hackney for three years.
It has been very interesting to listen to many perspectives on the relationship between the young people and the police.

It was also interesting to see some parents and young people coming together and giving their views on the subject.

As result of this docudrama, I would like to see young people being treated with respect that every human being deserves. I also think is extremely important that the young people don’t get criminalised.

Adelaide's Story

The reason of this film project is to get young people united. We wanted to find out the views and feelings of young people about the police. The aim of this film is to investigate how relations between young people and the police can be improved. Our objective is for the police to know people’s views about them.

We as a group went to other youth projects around London such as Kilburn and Poplar to investigate their views about what we were doing in our community about the police. We asked them what their relationship with the police was all about.

To be continued…

Negative? Positive?

The film is nearly finished! Some of the group will be editing this Saturday, and others are involved in designing a poster and flyer for the film 'Premiere' in their community hall. (They hope to show the film in a local cinema early next year).

In designing a poster they been thinking about what images to use. For example, the pictures below, taken during filming the fictional scenes - are they positive? Negative? What do these words mean anyway? The same words and pictures can mean different things to different people.

What do you think?

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