Get your filmy skates on and head off to Heathfield, near Bovey Tracey, tonight to get involved in a new film project for teenagers.

Film company The Media Workshop will spend a month with the town’s 13-19 year olds to help them get to grips with the filmmaking process, and they want teenagers to come up with idea for film to be shot in and around Heathfield.

The project starts at the Heathfield Community Centre at 6.30pm tonight (April 21) with a film night of films made by other young people in the area.

Next week (April 28), there will be a camera session at the centre to teach shooting skills, after that the organisers hope a regular group will form to make a film on asubject or story developed by Heathfield teenagers themselves.

Participants will work alongside professional camera operators, script developers, editors and sound engineers on the project to develop their ideas.

“It could be a skate film, a BMX film, a comedy, romance, documentary or action movie,” The Media Workshop filmmaker Tim Dollimore told D+CFilm. “Whatever the group decides to do is what we will be trying to get on film.”

And while you’re pulling on your socks to hot-foot it to such a great opportunity, let’s watch South Devon band Start Me Up in the video for Project Funkenstein, which we believe Mr Dollimore had a hand in, along with those filmsters Blind Ditch of Vanland fame.

posted by Cptn

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