Francesca (15, Italy) reflects on her experience of doing Get Ahead Film 

One of many classes you can choose for the Get Ahead options is Film Making.

You have the opportunity to work with an actual film maker, who will help you to create your own little movie. I did it in the first week, and my teacher was a lovely young lady called Jenny. On the first day she explained to us some basic notions about filming, then she asked us to start thinking about a story line for our film. Once that was settled, we started thinking about the roles everyone would take on during the filming.

I got to act to act with 3 other girls and everyone got to use the camera at least once in every scene. During the experience we were helped and guided by Jenny, but we could always give our opinions and decide what to do in pretty much every shot. When we finished the filming part, the teacher edited the shots and on the last day she showed us the final result.

It was really funny and I was really proud of what we had achieved.