Ross and Drew were in Caerphilly today working with students Bedwas High School to script and shoot a trailer for Where the River Takes Us by fabulous Welsh author LesleyParr. It's part of our "Reboot Reading" programme which is working to tackle the post-pandemic reading decline.
The students were brilliant, brave, creative and patient, and each grabbed with enthusiasm all the roles from concept creation, scriptwriting, storyboarding, camera work, to directing and set work. Strangely enough the most coveted position was boom operator!
Many thanks to Bedwas High School for hosting us today, especially Lianne Frannie for arranging everything and the head, Stephen Diehl, for saying yes to our proposals.
Watch this space for the trailer which, if today's workshop participants get their way, will include a bull, a dead body, a garage on fire, a cat which turns into a panther, a car crash and a wig (pictured).
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"This is just so brilliant and insightful and great! Thanks for creating and sharing x"
So says author Manon Stefan Ros, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal of the yes brilliant team of young people who filmed a trailer for her book, Llyfr Glas Nebo/The Blue Book of Nebo.
Well done to everyone who helped pull it together and many thanks to Manon, Maddy and everyone .
X, a short horror film we made with students at Mary Immaculate High School in went down a storm with the audience at its premiere in Chapter Arts Centre today.
Presenting "X", a horror film made by students at Mary Immaculate High School (with a little help from us). Well done to everyone who threw themselves so enthusiastically into making this - some very talented young actors, crew and directors-in-the-making!
Film-making projects are ideal for cross-curricular work that incorporate script-writing, storyboarding, camera work, acting, directing, editing and many other activities.
Get in touch if you want workshops for your school that help students to develop skills that are increasingly central to a whole series of industries and prepare them for workplaces transformed by the latest technological developments. We'll even bring the drone!
Unit 15 Productions
Students had a blast learning how to run a set, how to take direction and improve their acting, how to work industry-level equipment, and more! Looking forward to Day 2 and finishing the film!
Mary Immaculate High School
02/11/2023
Well done to students at Mary Immaculate High School, who have energetically thrown themselves into scriptwriting, storyboarding, acting, filming and editing during a horror-themed Hallowe'en workshop. Keep your eyes peeled for the fantastic result!
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