save our children

…and action!

The first movie project turned up faster than expected.
Actually, I wanted to start the AIM. movie workshop by communicating the most important theoretical projections in a playful and interesting way and afterwards start with the practical part. But with the “Galli Movie Project” the order was quickly turned over. It quickly turned out to be a good entrance task for the students and increased the motivation to learn more about filming and cutting.

The “Galli Movie Project” is a platform, where students can express their wishes, visions and opinions over their social living environment in an artistic project (movie). The project was an international project. Various NGO’s from different parts of the world took part in this project. Afterwards all movies (max. 15 minutes) were collected in the headquarters in Germany.

To find out more about the topics the students were interested in, we all met and discussed possible topics. All of the students wanted to talk about the topic pollution. I was very astonished how many different topics concerning pollution came up. Amina, the youngest member of the Youth Club, suggested to name the movie “Save our children”. Everyone was motivated – a very good start!

Francis, a very engaged member of the Youth Club and me wrote the screenplay for the movie. We divided the movie into two parts. Part 1 was introducing Komenda and the living situation for the inhabitants while part 2 was showing up the problem of pollution and the visions and wishes of the students for a better future. The first part visualised with a tour by the students.
We planned two routes, which were shown by a boy named Francis and a girl named Cathrin. In Francis’ route we showed the whole of Komenda, while Cathrin’s route showed the living conditions in Komenda. We shot the routes separately, but during the cutting mixed the parts, so it seems like Francis and Cathrin would walk at the same time.

Due to a good timetable we were able to shot part 1 on one day and the visions of the student as well as the pollution in Komenda on the next day. I cannot exactly express what the best part was during the shoot. The good working atmosphere, the crew or that everything worked out so well and everyone was happy with what he contributed to the movie. Normally we would have needed more time to do the project a bit more relaxed and work neatly, but the deadline wasn’t determined by us, so we needed to finish everything in only 2 weeks.

In the end we needed only 13 days from the idea until the movie was ready.