Young people's stories

Here are some stories from young people who took part in last year's competition and you can talk about it on Cut Films' facebook page too...

“The best bit was coming up with ideas.  It was really exciting thinking how it was going to happen.”

“I had the idea of doing something about peer pressure. You look around at your friends doing it (smoking) – and you think ‘I want to be like them’ – and that’s it!”

“We saw that there are judges of our own age. That’s cool. If they like it then you know that you are doing the right thing.”

"It was really fun, everyone could do loads of acting.  Everyone was laughing so we enjoyed it quite a bit.”

"We looked at the website and then our own ideas began to come. We watched some of the examples of anti-smoking videos on You Tube and then we did some Google searches to find out what sort of ingredients there were in fags.  Some of us weren’t sure how creative we should be, but the Cut Films website gave us ideas.”

“It made it easier to know we just had to say what we thought.  We don’t know what adults want to see, but we do know what we want.”