Monthly Archive: May 2014
Take a look at the new U+ website. This is a great website which is aimed at people under 25 years old. You can enter competitions and there is a wall where you can put your photographs, artwork etc: and you can sell your work, if you want. They also offer all sorts of creative opportunities in production, presenting, all sorts of courses and events, the list just goes on. It is a non profit organisation so everything is free to enter. They recently opened their new office in the USA and there is a competition running now where you...
Last night I was invited to a dinner at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. I met a lot of interesting people and had a good look around the college. It was just like Harry Potter when the Principal and other lecturers came in for dinner. A mallet was banged on the table and we had to stand as they filed in. We sat down to dinner after the head table had sat down and when it was finished the mallet was banged on the table again and all the top table filed out. I would love to go here and...
http://www.cutfilms.org/Barnet Just three days to go to the end of the voting on the Cut Films Competition for films tackling tobacco issues. Please take a look at my submission, Interview with Matthew Modine and if you like it vote for me! Matthew Modine is an environmental activist and he was kind enough to let me interview him. My submission is a short version of that interview. Please vote for my film, it will only take a few seconds. Thanks. Click this link to view my short film ‘Interview with Matthew Modine‘. You can view one of Matthew’s own environmental films...
Wow! It is so hot today. I went into London yesterday to do a read through for a new short film. It is another horror film and I am really looking forward to doing it. It will be scary! I am off to the BBC next week to record a part in a period radio drama about the British Monarchy. I will be a prince!!! At the end of May, I will be filming a short film which has a dark fantasy theme. So May has been all go, which is great. Actor, Tom Payne, who played the older...
LOGIN U+ MAGAZINE VISIT OUR BLOG An Interview with Matthew Modine Adam Thomas Wright, one of our U+ members has entered his 2 min short film into a competition which is being held by Barnet Cut Films. It is an annual competition. Adam was away filming in Yorkshire when he was told about it and he was asked if he could submit a short film. As he was the only child on set, he was a bit unsure as to what he could do. Then he had the bright idea of asking the main actor on set if he...
We have our own radio show at our school and this photo was taken yesterday and tweeted!! Although I look as if I have had the surprise of my life! I was actually talking about ‘Dancing like a Chicken Day’ which was yesterday. So people all over the world will have been doing the dadadada song. Check out the article on our blog on www.theyoung1s.co.uk where you can find all the news about our radio show and loads of interesting articles. You can also listen live on the website , the show is live from The Bull Theatre every Wednesday...
Believing that the young talents of today will be the big names of cinema in the future, the Festival de Cannes created “Cannes Short Film” in 2011. Today is the start of the Cannes Film Festival and I am pleased to say that a short film that I was involved in has been entered this year. It was a couple of years ago that I filmed a sort of cameo role in a short film called ‘Stitched’ This is a picture of me and Scarlett Clegg who played my little sister. Stitched is a dark and twisted tale, about a...
The kids in my school were asked to create an anti- smoking film along with all the schools in our area. Some of the films have been entered into the Barnet film festival. All the films have been designed to encourage children not to smoke. My film is called ‘Interview with Matthew Modine’ and you can vote for it on the link below. Everybody please vote for my film if you can. Thanks. Voting tips and how to vote can be found on the website here: http://competition.cutfilms.org/Video/View/d9138173-6ed4-4a94-8f55-c4c5fc7c20a1 Just press the green arrow underneath the film to vote!
