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  • Applecart Arts
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‘Journey to Westminster’
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Client: British Youth Council
Topic:  Youth Advocacy & Empowerment

What we did: We shadowed members of the UK Youth Parliament on their ‘Journey to Westminster’ over the course of sixth months to capture the personal transformation of young BYC Members. As the majority of staff at the British Youth Council are on the front-line delivering the amazing training young people need to succeed in their activism, we were here to help them capture their impact qualitatively as the journey unfolded.

When You Don’t Feel Great About Your Body
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Client: British Youth Council
Topic:  Mental Health & Body Image

What we did: Over the course of 6 months a Lens Change filmmaker produced several films to help communicate the great work of the Youth Select Committee (run by the British Youth Council) to a wider audience. On the second of two ‘Oral Evidence’ hearings at Portcullis House in Westminster the material for this short advice sharing film came together, of which the messaging was particularly powerful and apt. If we could all embody just one piece of advice from this film we’d all feel that little better about opening our social feeds.

YOUTH PARLIAMENT IN SESSION!
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Client: British Youth Council
Topic:  Youth Advocacy & Empowerment

What we did: This film was the first in a series of twelve we made for the British Youth Council to show their impact on the ground as they provide opportunities and training to young people in the UK. We captured material for this film as part of the Youth Voice Leadership Development programme training at the start of young people’s terms as Members of Youth Parliament (MYP). On this action-packed day in Canterbury our filmmaker set out to capture what the MYP’s priorities were for the year ahead.

Mogli’s Song
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Client: Artsdepot
Topic: Youth Homelessness

What we did: A Lens Change filmmaker co-created several promotional films in collaboration with HighRise theatre company to help promote the show the Concrete Jungle Book. This variation on Rudyard Kipling’s classic was devised with young homeless people in London and makes informed statements on the refugee crisis and inflated rent market. Mogli’s track specifically featured substantial steadicam work through the streets of Soho, London to show the characters neighbourhood in a fashion familiar to that of a music video.

Baloo’s Song
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Client: Artsdepot
Topic: Youth Homelessness

What we did: A Lens Change filmmaker co-created several promotional films in collaboration with HighRise theatre company to help promote the show the Concrete Jungle Book. This variation on Rudyard Kipling’s classic was devised with young homeless people in London and makes informed statements on the refugee crisis and inflated rent market. The shooting of Baloo’s film on the streets of Soho lead to an impromptu Street Cypher, which with the camera still rolling, provided a fantastic top and tail to the short film.

Why I Volunteer In The NHS
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Client: NHS Youth Forum
Topic: Youth rights in healthcare

What we did: At The NHS Youth Forum’s quarterly meeting in Doncaster our filmmaker had probably one of the toughest briefs yet – shoot 23 films in just one day! As this was a new cohort of young people for the forum’s year ahead we organised for the filming of 22 new new recruits to give a direct-to-cam video introduction to the young people they represent. In workshop with members we then co-created this short campaign film as a useful asset for their campaigning in the month’s ahead. The film focussed on the importance of volunteering in the NHS, a topic which many in the forum had some fantastic contributions to share.

Peer Support Is My Lifeline
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Client: NHS Youth Forum
Topic:  Youth rights in healthcare

What we did: One sunny Saturday in the Peak District, we commenced a half day challenge with NHS Youth forum members to devise and shoot a film in one afternoon. This short film would play by scanning a QR Code on a poster we’re co-creating for them for display in hospitals, dentists and GPs surgeries. The objective of the comms is to promote the importance of young people engaging in peer support. For many young people, becoming a frequent healthcare user, can be daunting and isolating. These comms share the value of finding peer support being a top priority with messaging for young people; by young people.

Your health is in your hands
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Client: NHS
Topic: Youth rights in healthcare

What we did: Many young people (and adults!) use the internet to try and determine an ailment when they have ill health symptoms. This often leads to false diagnoses as people land in forums or on unofficial healthcare websites. Devised and shot during a one day film residency with the NHS Youth Forum, we worked to devise three short films that would help emphasise the importance and satisfaction of receiving an official diagnoses, highlighting some of the options as to how they can do this.

Anaële’s story
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Client: Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)
Topic: Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

What we did: When working to prevent violent extremism and stop the radicalisation process there is no one size fits all approach. Individuals can get drawn into extremist narratives for a whole range of different personal reasons. Acknowledging this at the inception of the RAN’s Exit Hate campaign, we used storytelling to explore different perspectives of people affected by extremism. These stories would offer alternative narratives to that of extremists and provide a platform for voices of people affected by violent extremism to be heard.

Ivan’s story
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Client: Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)
Topic: Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

What we did: When working to prevent violent extremism and stop the radicalisation process there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach. Individuals can get drawn into extremist narratives for a whole range of different personal reasons. Acknowledging this at the inception of the RAN’s Exit Hate campaign, we used storytelling to explore different perspectives of people affected by extremism. These stories would offer alternative narratives to that of extremists and provide a platform for voices of people affected by violent extremism to be heard.

Exit Hate sting: Where does violence begin?
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Client: Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN)
Topic: Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

What we did: With a generous ‘ads for good’ grant from twitter and facebook, the RAN needed a film they could use to promote their new campaign Exit Hate (an open space campaign for discussing the nature of hate). We focussed in on a typical everyday scenario of heteronormativity and homophobia and how a moment of ignorance & abuse can often be enough to spark hate in even some of the gentlest of individuals.

Newham Word Festival
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Client: Applecart Arts
Topic:  Youth Advocacy & Empowerment

What we did: Each year Newham Council, in collaboration with the Discovery Centre & Applecart Arts, host a two-week festival of performances, poetry, exhibitions and workshops across the borough to celebrate the power of the written word. We were delighted to be asked back to Applecart Arts for a second year to train young aspiring producers on filmmaking and journalistic skills. In turn these young people were then supported by our filmmaker to attend and document the festival. This short documentary was then used by stakeholders to 1) share the impact of the 2019 event and 2) used to show what happens at the Newham Word Festival to future attendees and practitioners.

Manwar’s Story
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Client: Applecart Arts
Topic:  Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

What we did: As part of Applecart Arts fantastic arts programme InCourage a Lens Change filmmaker worked closely with one of the visiting speakers to capture their story. Manwar’s personal experiences of a former extremist position him perfectly to be a voice of reason to those who are attracted to similar ideologies to those that he once was. Having filmed his seminar at Applecart’s Upton Park arts venue we caught up with Manwar near Wembley Mosque when there was a bit more time to explore his story in detail.

Matthew’s Story
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Client: Applecart Arts
Topic:  Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

What we did: Like with Manwar’s story we worked closely with Matthew to tell this personal account on film as part of Applecart Art’s InCourage arts programme. Whereas Manwar’s experiences could be explored from the perspective of a former extremist, another part of the jigsaw in understanding + ultimately preventing radicalisation, is to explore the experiences of the victims. In Matthew’s heartbreaking testimony he shared with us just how harrowing it was to lose his partner to a form of religious intolerance to homosexuality.

InCourage
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Client:  Applecart Arts
Topic:  Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

What we did: We insourced ourselves perfectly with Applecart’s team for a 1 month long mixed arts programme focussed on enabling community discussions around the prevention of Violent Extremism. We produced a series of short 1 min videos that would help promote the InCourage series to the local community. In the weeks following the programme we compiled the material gathered into this short documentary providing a snapshot of the acts and audience reactions.

My Concrete Jungle
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Client: Artsdepot
Topic: Youth Homelessness

What we did: We ran several exploratory workshops with a group of young homeless people in Centrepoint London with two key outputs: 1) Participants learn the basics of photography and have an active role in creating / directing 2) photo outputs are used to help promote the theatre show participants have helped shape ‘The Concrete Jungle Book’. With many young people being young asylum seekers we explored their journeys to the UK through still images. ‘Light painting’ proved a particularly effective creative approach with some exciting results the group were proud to put their names to.