Birthday Blues
Birthday Blues is a PSA highlighting a young man’s struggle with suicidal thoughts as he turns 18. It emphasizes the importance of seeking help and reaching out to friends during difficult times
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Look Beyond the Signs
It can be easy to identify warning signs in others that are very open with their feelings. It can be challenging to identify warning signs in those that are not verbalizing how they feel. This film is about a student who is bullying others, showing through her actions that she is actually struggling. We often just see the bully, and not that they may in fact be struggling with their own mental health.
Weight We Carry
My entry shows the struggles teens like myself go through, and the struggles they have reaching out to friends to help.
Writing Your Own Story
This Mental Health Awareness PSA demonstrates how friends can help support each other when they are going through tough times. Just because someone looks happy and is successful doesn’t mean that they are going though things. When friends support each other, they can help give the person the strength they need to write their own story.
Don’t Hold Back
Our PSA follows a high school cheerleader who is struggling to open up about her mental health. We decided to use a cheerleader as our protagonist, because we understand how, metaphorically, a cheerleader’s experience can actually be relatable to anyone who is experiencing a mental health challenge; we reference how they are often expected to maintain a performative, joyful demeanor, while always being a support system for others. Our protagonist then discovers that she too is allowed to ask for support and
Notice the signs
this PSA is supposed to be a about depressed youth across the US. its supposed to symbolize the hurt and emotional/mental neglect teens go through, and how to help.
You Are Not Alone
Talking to someone you trust can be the first step in improving your mental health. This PSA encourages young people to talk to someone and get help because if you are struggling, you are not alone.
First Step
Our short film, First Step , focuses on the crucial moment of acknowledging the need for mental health support. Rather than portraying the entire journey of healing, we highlight the significance of taking that initial step by recognizing one’s struggles and reaching out for help through the slow pan and the retelling of the person’s personal struggles through his friends point of view and his point of view which intensifies the importance of communication.
Breaking The Barrier Mental Health short film
The process for this short film was amazing, working with others to make this happen and to where others can watch and learn new stuff about Mental Health. People go through this and I hope that this short film can really show others on how it can be and if people are going through this I hope that they can reach out, people are never alone cause theres always people their for you if you ever feel alone.
Better Together
This film demonstrates mental awareness. Our film “Better Together” was about a boy going through a tough time and was ignored when he reached out for his friends’ help. After his friends had ignored him, they both realized what they did was wrong, and they would search for him to help him out. Then they found him, they apologized and asked him if he was going through something. After the boy had said he was, they invited him to hang out and eat with them. They all went to hang out.