The stars were out in force for the glamorous red carpet premiere of Weymouth’s newest movie…
The Sadness of King George - “the other King’s speech” - is the second UK Film Council funded movie about a King George - this time George 3rd.
The film, bringing together the town’s most famous holidaymaker and next year’s sailing Olympics, has been made by Beechcroft St Paul’s Primary School’s year five class working with a team of artists and film-makers from Dorchester ARTS.
The three minute epic is being released on DVD and shown on big screens around the UK.
“It’s a dramatic race against time and a race through time,” explained project leader Alastair Nisbet. “Will King George be able to ride his white horse back to Weymouth in time to save the Olympics from disaster ?”
“The school has been fantastic - they have embraced the project with huge enthusiasm and had the bravery to abandon their curriculum for a fortnight. The result is a wonderful piece of work. The story, drama, drawing, voices and music are all the children’s. Our role has been to support them through the process.
After research ideas and developing the story and script, children acted out dramatic scenes with drama specialist Sharon Hayden before creating them as drawn animated sequences.
Punch and Judy expert Wendy Wharam came into school to give them ideas about using Punch as a character and international artist Nic Rawling from the Paper Cinema helped inspire their drawing. They filmed each other and made their animated characters walk and talk in the same way - and then worked with music producer Mickey Wills to create a soundtrack.”
The finished film is being screened at a variety of locations including the big screen on Weymouth beach this summer. DVDs are available from Beechcroft St Paul’s School and Dorchester ARTS and will be streamed online.
The project has been supported by the Lottery through the UK Film Council’s First Light Initiative, the Weymouth and Portland Partnership, Departure Arts, Beechcroft St Pauls Primary and Dorchester Arts.
pictures by members of the crew
pictures by members of the crew
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| Creative professionals of the future: members of he crew strike a pose on the red carpet |
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Glamorous: Mandy Powell and class teacher Craig Holloway arrive for the show. |
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On the red carpet: Nikki Edgar and her escort arrive for the premiere |
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