Best Buddies

Best Buddies Day 2011

02-Dec-2011

Welcome to Best Buddies Day....

Best Buddies Day is our annual celebration and reward for all the young people engaged in our High Schools Program. These amazing kids have been hanging out with their friends all year and this is our way of saying thank you.

Not content with simply having a good time however, Best Buddies structures this day with a number of learning outcomes and objectives. This year, we want to deliver a fun day that will engage the young people in a creative exercise. We also seek to create leadership opportunities as well as develop skills in communication, socialisation and adaptive functioning.

The Event.

200+ young people will descend on the Entertainment Quarter to create 20 x 3-5 min movies. We will then provide a rough edit of these films, select the best 5 and produce a DVD to be launched next year at a ‘Red Carpet’ event.

How will we do this?

Best Buddies staff will distribute scripts to each High School Chapter prior to the day. We will also organise Buddy Pairs and Associate Members into groups of 10 (e.g. 5 Buddy Pairs) assigning a volunteer to each group. (Some schools may have just one group, other multiple groups.)

These groups will work through one of two prepared storylines, each with 5 scenes.

On the day, groups will have 15 mins to prepare and organise then an additional 15 mins to shoot a 30-60 second scene. Each scene location will have 2 additional volunteers to help deliver a great shot.

Once all scenes are completed, we will collect the footage, edit it and post the drafts on our website.

The best ones will be professionally edited and made into a DVD

Best Buddies will provide transport for all young people, lunches for everyone.

Each group will need to bring the basic props you want, plus dress up if desired. BBA will provide some props on the day.

This is a massive undertaking and we need to thank everyone who has helped prepare the unique and challenging event.

If you want more information, please feel free to contact us, or look at the scripts etc on our publications page.