Finalising our MKK Presentations!

Right, where to begin! We started the day with planning out our PSA (Public Service Announcement), this is a short drama/advertisement to the public about various issues. We had 2 groups for this and my group decided we would centre it on a relationship between a boyfriend and girlfriend and the peer pressure that can sometimes surround these relationships based on drugs.

This was really fun as we got to use the drama radio recording room. It has loads of props in it from a freestanding door to the different walking surfaces. The highlight of creating this script was getting one of the young people to call his on air girlfriend – sweet cheeks! ! ! ☺ Well chuffed…

Anywho… you wanna know about the PSA! Well it started with the girl coming into her boyfriend’s house and saying how her mother was totally freaking her! The boyfriend then says that he has a present that will calm her down and searches in his pocket for it (Ohhhh yes… we got to make sounds for that too… SOOO MUCH FUN!). He then takes out some TIK (Crystal meth), and the girl asks what that? He replies with TIK, it’ll make all your worries go away! The girl is shocked and says ‘That’s BADDD for you!’, he replies ‘No its not, it takes all my worries away and makes me feel out of this world!’. The girlfriend still shocked tells him that his worries will still be their tomorrow. The boy asks her ‘Do you not love me?’ she tells him she does but she’s not going take any drugs. The boy says ‘Well then I’ll do it myself’ and takes TIK. The girl is annoyed and tells him that she is leaving and that he is a complete loser. After this I make my debut with the following message–

If you are in a relationship, you don’t need to do what your partner does.
Don’t feel the pressure!
Don’t do Drugs!

Following that we edited most of the day and finished by tying our presentation together with audio on how we created our work and our experience. I think the work all these people are giving to MKK, is incredible and hearing their views and experiences was remarkable, especially how they express themselves so clearly. They are also not afraid to have different views from their peers.

As for tomorrow, I am On Air at 8:30, that’s 6:30 Belfast time! Feel free to listen in little dudes. Although you’ll hear the young people speaking and see how much better they are at it than myself haha! Although they do say practice makes perfect… so give me some time!
Caoimhe x

So today my group started by discussing which articles we wanted on our blog – I had to write an article about child labour and exploitation of children in the UK. You can check out our blog. After this we looked on the Internet for pictures of child labour throughout the world and then done vox pops about young people’s views about child labour. Adrian, our technical facilitator edited the footage for us and finalised the video. We also looked at the comments on the WIMPS forum about child labour (BTW thanks guys, it really helped). We would still love to hear your views so if you haven’t already done so please take part :D

After lunch we got down to posting our articles and photos onto the blog – so I did actually finish our product and I feel that we have addressed the issue of worldwide child labour. We then started on our presentation, which we actually got finished despite complaining yesterday that we didn’t think we would. I suppose its true what they say – “many hands make light work” :S (ewww – cheese :S)

Only had one problem today and that was that we couldn’t get our video to upload onto the blog but hopefully this will be fixed by tomorrow to do our presentation.

Looking forward to tomorrow to how the other groups have used their mediums to address their issues and to see the different outlooks on the issues – should be interesting :D.

See you all in a few days :S
Una x

Today in the photography production group our photos got developed – all 200-odd of them! We laid them out on the floor to get on with the difficult yet strangely therapeutic process of picking out the ones we felt were the most powerful and eliminating those we felt didn’t fit with our issue of pollution. I was really proud of the photos the group had taken, some great images and it was nice to see the different angles people in the group had used. I had to do some finance stuff with Brenda, Bush Radio’s administrator, in the afternoon so missed the group working on captions to go with the photos. So all that’s left to do in the morning is to make a collage of our photos with their captions on poster card so we can display our thoughts about the impact of pollution and what we need to do about it.

Oh & whilst waiting for the photos to arrive we got together with the graffiti production group and played Chinese Whispers (or ‘Broken Telephone’ as it’s known here) – when you have someone from Mozambique, 2 N Irish folks and a bunch of S Africans, communication breaks down with the different accents very easily. At one stage I was laughing so hard I was nearly crying, I don’t think one single message got through the line intact.

It’s fun in the sun I tell you ...although actually it was actually a little chillier today - jumpers were required, how will we survive next week?!
Debs

Today was the penultimate day of MKK and because we finished yesterday we only had to finish our presentation for tomorrow which isn’t finished which means an early start tomorrow. Today my group had a bit of an argument on homosexuality, 2 of the guys’ views were way out of line and I wasn’t having it. They were using the excuse of culture but that’s not good enough they were being very dismissive in the whole thing so it got to a point where I had to walk away from it all because one of the guys was just not listening to anything I was saying and making a joke out of the thing. Now if I had have said racism is part of my culture it wouldn’t be tolerated so why should homophobia be tolerated in theirs? Anyway we’re off to dinner now so more on tomorrow and the presentations.

Nathan aka shiv

PS. Sorry no photos to upload today, there will be tomorrow though.