A small group of our S1s are lucky enough to be working with the talented local film maker Sandie Jamieson –  on a Cinema project. Pupils have been set three tasks of increasing depth and challenge which will culminate in their final piece being premiered at the Edinbugh Film Festival along with pupil films from other schools in the city and across Scotland. The boys have mostly worked on the project at lunchtimes and a few extra periods here and there for filming. Sandie has shown the boys some inspirational excerpts from famous films and introduced them to the finer points of scriptwriting and and filming and has shown remarkable patience with a group of excitable S1 lads with some outlandish ideas.

More information can be found on the main blog here – http://understandingcinema.wordpress.com/  and on St Paul’s own blog here – http://cinemastpaulsrcdundee.wordpress.com/

The videos we have made can be seen on – https://vimeo.com/user24324805/videos

Filming began in earnest last week with a number of scenes ‘in the can’ as they say.