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Our names are Shushana Seymour-Grigg, Nadia Shamow, Rahma Osman and Freya Parsons and we are Year 8 Students at Fairfield High School in Bristol. In October 2015 we entered a competition called Sharp Shotz run by the charity IDEAL. Working as a team we developed a campaign to help encourage victims of child abuse to seek support. As a group we were concerned that some young children did not know who to turn to and ask for help.
After researching the wide spread occurrence of child abuse, we wrote and produced a film to get a message out to young victims. The film is entitled ‘You Are Not Alone’ and uses simple animated sequences with interviews with support workers to help get this message across.
Our campaign moving forward centres around this message and we hope it will encourage young people who are suffering to reach out for the help they need. If you would like to see the film please go the Sharp-Shotz website to see the finished work. Please share this film with friends and family to help us get the message to still suffering victims of abuse.
The experience of writing and helping to produce a film has been a fantastic experience. We have had the opportunity to spend time at the BBC and UWE. We have also had the opportunity to develop skills in leading a campaign, attending workshops with experts in this field. We have learnt to operate cameras and direct a film learning to conduct our own interviews. Not many Year 8 students have this opportunity. We would like to thank all the team at Sharp-Shotz for their support and time to help make our film and campaign become a reality.
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Sharp Shotz
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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