Editors Choice

The Best Days of Your Life?

The short film, created by Rebecca Turner, a young A Level student
and media enthusiast, focusses
upon, arguably, one of the most
important stages of life: growing
up through your teenage years,
discovering who you are and be-

young. Whilst watching the footage, I almost got teary, thats

a secrett between me and you,
through the way it even stimulates older viewers to look
back
upon their childhood
and relive all the experiences
they encounted as a teenager. - The ending shot clearly emphasises the

growing up and being a teenag-

A real eye-opener in
how teenagers should
cherish their youth
before it disappears

er, such as exams, revision, stug-

Although the film has some faults,

ginning to think about and plan

your future. The inspiring film is
meant to encourage teenagers
to weigh the difficult parts about

gling with your body image and such as the wibbly-wobbly camera
arguing with parents, against the and out-of-focus, almost phonemost exciting and memorable like, footage , it all adds to the

main message of the short and encourages teens to make the most of their youth

The Inspiration!
It is strongly suggested the inspiration
for this short was indeed taken from the
video Youth clarifying the innocence and
carefree nature of teenagers. From the
differences and similarities in both films,
it implies Turner wanted to focus upon
both the positive and negative aspects

parts such as, learning to drive, rustic and home-made feel which
of growing up, not just the memorable
spontaneous trips to the beach makes it all the more meaningor the arcade, celebrating victo-

ful, showing how an inspiration-

ries and simply enjoying being

al message conducted through

film does not need to be all hightech and fancy in order to have a
long-lasting and emotional effect

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uplifting moments as shown in Youth.

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the Youth video!
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stressing over exams, university choices or revision (although
those things are very important
and you should pay a lot of attention to them), but to just relax every so often and remember
that these years are supposed to
be the highlight of your life and
to enjoy them while they last! The
title of the short encouraged me
to reminsice about my teenage
years before I had even watched
the 6 minutes of footage. I would
- Snapshots taken from the film expressing the most memorable experiences
growing up

on the audience. By using

such everyday locations, such
as

a skateboard park, fields,

the arcade, beach and even

her bedroom, the target audi-

of being young, innocent and

carefree (until they reach about

ence of teenagers can easily

relate and even look what to

rent that is), and not to waste

memorable

such a precious time of the life

they

to watch it and rethink wheth-

have had in similar locations, er they are actually making the

being reminded of the beauty most of being a teenager, be-

18 and encounter bills and

experiences

happily encourage all teenagers

cause once the years have gone,

you will never get them back,
and they could be, quite frankly, The Best Years of Your Life.

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to view the The Best Years
of Your Life? short film!
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