The 2nd Monmouth Film School will run from 6 -17th August based at HMSG and is open to students aged between 7 and 18 who are attending the different schools in our community. Last year Dream Guy won a Filmmaker Award at Wales' First International Young People's Festival and Time Spent won Best Film and the production team was invited on set and to be extras on Children's BBC Young Dracula. This year we will build four Production Units and allocate the roles of scriptwriter, director, assistant director, camera person, actor, producer and editor The issues will cover anti-social behaviour, social problems, social barriers and social insecurity. Each film will have three stages in its development: pre-production, production and post production. It will involve full collaboration between all students on all aspects technical and creative and meticulous forward planning and management. The film treatments have been devised during scriptwriting workshops held in autumn 2006 and represent exciting views and opinions of young people today. For example, Addiction is a visually ambitious story of the struggle to break a generational cycle of addiction. A series of carefully constructed and seamlessly linked cinematic images follow a family back through four generations of addicts and tell the story of how the cycle is finally broken, moving through smoking, gambling, drink and finally arriving at obsession to the computer. Starr-Crossed, is a modern re-working of the Shakespearian original set against a town divided by a private and comprehensive school and vividly dramatizing teenage knife-culture. All treatments can be viewed on our website http://www.habs-monmouth.org/filmschool">www.habs-monmouth.org/filmschool along with full Application Form, shooting schedule and tutors' biographies, most of whom work in the TV and Film industry today. Thanks go to Monmouthshire County Council (Community and Economic Development Scheme), The Film Agency Wales and The Haberdashers' Company for making the film school possible.
