Farra News 17 - Sunderland Learning Hub

CHRISTMAS 2011 FARRA NEWS 11
BIG VOICE PROJECT
ANTI-DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT
This term 10 Media students have been working
with Mrs Bird and Kelly Henderson from Wearside
Women in Need on an advertising project to
highlight the dangers of abuse within teenage
relationships. They have become involved as it
was felt that the best people to get a message
across to teenagers in the right way are teenagers
themselves. They are aiming to create a
work pack that can be used by other schools
and also by the end of the project, which goes
on until February, to create an advertising campaign
that may be used locally (maybe even nationally!)
An article will feature in the Sunderland
Echo just after Christmas. Watch this space as
the project progresses further.
Throughout November a team of Y11 script
writers have been working with 5 film students
from Teeside University to film their entry for
the Big Voice competition. Last year they wrote
a script based around anti-social behaviour
(drinking on the streets) and they won the opportunity
to film it. The film will be shown on
the BT/Get Set Olympics website and also
showcased on city screens around the country
in the lead up to the Olympics. The script writers
had to cast the production (thank you Charlotte
Gibson, Vicky Beaney and Eden Fowdy
for being our cast) and also find the locations
(again a big thank you to the Allendale Road
butchers and to Danny Foster’s nan as well as
the local city council and local police who also
gave us interviews!) The team from the university
was led by Peter Rigney and our students
had a great experience acting and filming with
them. We look forward to seeing the finished
product.
The image featured left has been designed based on
ideas from the group of a ‘bruised heart’ - the idea is
that domestic violence cause pain you can’t see as
well as the bruises you can see.