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A film made by pupils at Millfield Primary School
is encouraging people to be more environmentally aware.
Walk To A Better World, sets out to challenge
pupils to walk to school and help improve the environment by cutting
down on traffic congestion.
The pupils, all aged between eight and nine
years old, explain why they believe it's important to change people's
attitudes.
Pupils used computers to edit their films |
About 12 months ago, we did a survey as part of
our School Travel Action Plan, to find out how people were coming
to school.
Out of all the reasons to walk to school, we decided
looking after the environment was the most important.
"We knew it was important to try to get lots
of people to walk to school, to make the environment a better place,"
said Ruby.
Amber said they all realised that making a film
could have a real impact.
"We decided to make a film because something like
a poster people would look at it and forget about it, but a film
would be interesting and fun," she said.
"Little ones who couldn't read information
on a poster could understand a film," she added.
Polluted future
We came up with ideas for different characters
and decided the film should contrast the green and pleasant world
with a badly polluted future.
One of the characters in the film |
"We thought that the cars would be making a lot
of pollution. We got the idea of a Frankenstein
head as the enemy in the movie," said Alex, who came up with
the Frankenstein idea.
The film includes special effects we spent many
hours editing them on a computer.
"It was hard making the special effects, but it
was fun at the same time. It took a long time doing the editing,
and that was very hard," said Caitlin.
Raising awareness
We have used the film as a discussion point and
to raise awareness of the environmental impact of pollution. Most
of the pupils watched the film at the start of Walk To School week
in June.
"The film makes people
think about the world, and it gets all ages talking about it,"
said Catherine.
"I hope lots more people will watch the film now,
and lots more people will walk to school, then all around it will
be a more environmentally friendly place. And we would like it if
lots more people would get out of their cars!"
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