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FILM: ‘Don’t Stress, It’s Pointless
Check out this animation about reducing exam stress from Sharp Shotz winners.
Can you help us in our quest to reduce exam stress? We are three year 8 girls from Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College who entered a competition to work with BBC Bristol, UWE and charity Ideal. We had to choose a topic and then create a presentation on it to show a panel of judges. The topic we chose was exam stress because we felt strongly about it and wanted to make a difference.
Once our group was chosen as one of the two winners, we started planning our film. Firstly, we started working on a storyboard at BBC Bristol and then visited UWE to work with their students learning how to use professional equipment. Their students then visited Broadoak to create our film. On this day, we directed the film using the skills that we had learnt.
Our film follows the story of a year 11 student who panics when her teacher reminds her class that they have a maths test the next day. She starts desperately revising to the point where she gets a panic attack. Our film includes an interview with a school nurse who encounters this real life issue often in her day to day job. She gives advice on how to cope with the stress of exams.
Tackling exam stress is important because many young people who are faced with it tend to turn towards harmful solutions to cope. We want this to stop.
Now we are focusing on the campaign and that’s where we need your help. Our message is to stop stressing so help us by using #dontstressitspointless and spread the awareness.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and for spreading the message.
Has this article helped in anyway? Do you have your own revision/relaxation schedule you want to share? Let us know — @rifemag
Related Links:
Get counselling and specialist help at Off the Record Bristol
Learn about filmmaking at BFI Film Academy Bristol
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established Sharp Shotz in 2007 in partnership with George Francis (a youth worker and social entrepreneur) based at the time in St Pauls, Bristol. The partnership proved to be highly successful in establishing Sharp Shotz in Bristol and beyond. IDEAL and the University of the West of England relaunched Sharp Shotz in 2013 after a year gap with the new format of using the combined mediums of documentary and animation within the films, and new partners in the form of the BBC and th North Somerset Community Partnership who sponsored the 2013 competition 2014 has brought more partners one original and one new - Aardman Animations who with the University of the West of England were instrumental in getting Sharp Shotz off the ground, and Unchosen a Bristol based charity that works nationally to raise awareness of Modern Slavery Sharp Shotz aims to: Enable young people to reach their full potential. Breakdown the barriers to learning and work opportunities that prevent young people from succeeding. Provide young people with opportunities to work on projects that target problems faced by young people today. Establish projects which are innovative and rewarding to work on, building self-confidence and the will to succeed. To work with partners from all sectors of the community in the achievement of these aims. Over the past 8 years Sharp Shotz has engaged over 800 young people from secondary schools, pupil referral units, and youth groups. It has run the animation competition with Aardman Animations and the University of the West of England as the founding partners, Sharp Shotz Unsigned music competition with Real World Studios, debates at Bristol City Council, and events as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week and the Encounters film festival
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