Sebastian at the church of rock.

The rock-plex is a really odd name for the place we are currently using as our base, Which is right next to the rock church, at the priory street center. The Filming had been going on all week, and i was here yesterday, and again today to take part in the most important sections of the project. Seeing the photo's from the progression of the campaign on the blog, gives me massive confidence in the skills everyone involved. The experiences of the carers taking part, and dedicating their spare time are very important to making this s success. Just as important is the professional skills and experience of the leaders who have kept us focused yet upbeat. We have pulled together and pushed hard to get everything done, and each person deserves to give themselves a round of applause in my opinion! Saying that, it's not quite all there yet, we have the editing to come and then the hard slog of getting it out there to the people who will make a difference to us young carers. We have the film, we have the posters, but do we have the influence? It'll be interesting to see if we can make a genuine difference to how young carers are both perceived and treated. But i know this week's work will be worth it, because we have made an effort and got the ingredients for a brilliant 10 minute short.

Sebastian - Young Carers Revolution at the City screen

Hello i am a member of the young carers and am participating in the 'Young Carers Revolution' project

My name is Sebastian and i had my second full session of the project, which was very informative and i think, extremely useful, in projecting our young imagination into the campaign.

(there are some photo's of me on the blog if you are not quite sure of who i actually am!) =]

We have just had a successful session at the city screen basement, finalising our campaign posters and creating 'taglines' to accompany the photos that were taken the previous week.
The group of three which i was in, used one of the five concepts created before to help finish a poster design brief that can be sent to the graphic production facility, in order to make the finished product. The slogan was ''What's keeping you'' which referring to the idea of events taking place in a carers life, preventing them from protecting the person they care for. In this particular instance it was the juxtaposition of a boy at school being prevented from looking after his mum, due to being in a detention. Whilst there, at the very same time his mother falls very ill, yet he is unable to provide his aid as he it otherwise occupied with what seems trivial school work. We hope this creates an impacting image that hits the target audience, schools and places of education, with an clear message on the time constraints and the constant pressure playing n carers minds. We are waiting until the next session to see the finished product, which will allow us to make any last minutes changes if they are not quite what we had in mind.