The Selby Lit project entered its final stages as the film production got underway. The group had developed a narrative voice-over through creative workshops with Inspired Youth and were now creating visuals for their film which would carry their powerful, challenging and inspiring messages to the world.
During the process the young people discussed ideas about how the world viewed them, including negative stereotypes. They were inspired as a group to create a message that challenged prejudices and limitations which these stereotypes put on the potential of young people. 
The young people were passionate about making a film that challenged stereotypes about young people with the aim of inspiring people to listen more to young people in order for them feel more understood. The narrative was created through a process where each young person wrote their own writing individually before they were combined together to coproduce a final compilation. The quotes in this post are excerpts of the groups voice over.
“Young people need support and belief. We all want to be understood. By doing this it would give us more self-confidence”
The group each took turns to feature in shots for the film. We used different locations around Selby to create different imagery.
“We want an opportunity to show society who we really are. We want people to get to know us as individuals and not assume all young people are the same”
The film is now in post production and once it is edited their are plans for a launch showcase before it is shared virally.
Watch out for details about the finished film which will be launched in Selby in partnership with The National Collaborative Outreach Programme before launching online.
In this session the group came back together to record audio of their combined narratives. The audio would be used to drive the messages of their film which explored perceptions of young people vs young peoples perceptions of themselves. Their film aims to highlight that regardless of challenges they face and stigma attached with young people that young people all have dreams and aspirations.
Before recording we read out the final narrative together, then the young people took turns to read the entire script into the microphone.
It was important to keep the atmosphere quiet so each young person could have their spoken narrative recorded to a good quality for use in their film.
It is a nerve-racking experience to have your voice recorded on audio but each young person coped with the pressure well and all spoke well. 
The crew all had fun in the process with plenty of laughter along the way. Creating media can be fun but it also requires focus and determination if you want to create something of real quality.
We now had captured all the audio recording needed, ready for the film.
Some of the team found it hard not to laugh!!
In the end every young person contributed their part and performed the speaking very well.
There was always room for encouragement and tips to make the recording the best it could be!
In this session the group reflected and recapped on all the material they had created through the explorative workshops.
They used themes highlighted through the journey to create their own narrative which would form the voice over for their film.
The written narratives would then be combined to create a master voice over ready for audio recording in the next session. See their narratives below.
How young people perceive themselves:
Next the young people were given a series of questions about the importance of community projects and the difference they make – Check out the blog for their posts.