Jimmy the Dip Courts Sweet Tina!
It’s here! It’s now available on YouTube, our much awaited for film written, directed, acted and filmed by the students of Bishops Park College (now Clacton Coastal Academy). To view parts 1 & 2 please click on the following urls:
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5yvprWR4tw
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvoP8wG6izk
yesterday, Harwich’s Electric Palace was presented a first from some young local film-makers.
Lost Treasure in Jaywick was written, directed, filmed and acted by students from Clacton Coastal Academy, formerly known as Bishops Park College.
The Young Roots Heritage Lottery Fund project in conjunction with a local Essex charity, CoastNet, was a short fictional film inspired by the 1953 floods.
In April the students conducted oral history interviews with elderly residents of Jaywick and Clacton. The students wrote and shot the film during the summer. Their story involves a treasure hunt around Jaywick and Claction and a love story between fictional characters Sweet Tina and a 1950s gangster known as Jimmy the Dip.
The characters were inspired by an old photograph of a gentleman in an old fashioned suit and gangster hat from early Jaywick. Sweet Tina is a popular landmark in Jaywick and is actually a curtain and fabric shop but the students were so taken with the name that they wanted to incorporate it into their story.
Juliana Vandegrift, from CoastNet, said: “The students have worked really hard to produce a wonderful short film with an interesting twist at the end.”
(Source: East Anglian Daily Times, 16th September)
Film Premiere, Electric Palace, Harwich
Students at Bishops Park College completed the main bulk of their film project this week. Filming took place at the house of one student’s relative who very kindly lent their kitchen for the film shoot. With filming completed, and just the minor pick up shots to complete, the only thing which separates the students from the film’s premiere in September is their eager anticipation and a long wait while the editing is completed over the summer holidays. Details of the film’s premiere will be announced in September.
There will also be an exhibition of the making of the project, details to be announced.
CoastNet would like to dearly thank all the helpful residents and businesses of Jaywick, Seawick and Clacton who’ve allowed us to film on their premises, in and round the area. This includes the Low Tide Cafe, First Essex buses, Clacton Pier, Seawick Holiday Park, Sweet Tina’s, Laura’s auntie for her house loan (!), the Jaywick Community Resource Centre and all the actors who’ve contributed too. Last but not least we would also like to thank the residents of Jaywick and Clacton who contributed to the project with their interviews and either directly or indirectly inspired the story plot. Thank you William Stevenson, Mary Puddick, Dick Harmon, Peter Wright, Shirley Hooton, Olive Richardson and those from Clacton Pier who gave us vox pops!
On the final day of filming the students were presented with Certificates of Achievement by the CoastNet team on behalf of CoastNet and the Heritage Lottery Fund. It’s been such a great project working together and heaps of fun and it’s pretty sad to be drawing to a close, but at least the students’ have the final excitement of seeing the finished product and all their hard work on the big screen! Editing commences with the help of the students over the summer break!
What an Achievement!
Seawick Holiday Park
Seawick Holiday Park generously lent one of its caravans for filming to the students from Bishops Park photography club the other day. Students were filming a scene from their short film ‘Lost Treasure in Jaywick’.
More than a dozen students crammed into the space for a couple of hours to film the scene where one group of characters is spied on by another and plans are hatched to get to the treasure first!
Discussing the angle
Making Up
Karl and Aaron rehearse their scene
What's this Calum?
Beautiful scenery
Juliana and Becci
Students from Bishops Park College spent the afternoon filming ‘Lost Treasure in Jaywick’ at the local Low Tide Cafe in Jaywick last Wednesday. The students wanted to include as many local landmarks as possible in their Jaywick story and the cafe is very popular with local residents, as well as tourists. The staff made us feel very welcome and were so kind and generous providing snacks for the students while they filmed. Watch out for the Low Ttide Cafe scene and the first appearance of the film’s ficticious character, Sweet Tina! Coming soon…
Checking the script
Framing the shot
Sam, Louise and India prepare for Take 1
The longest boom
Sweet Tina makes her debut (left)
Take 2 and it's a wrap
Filming the very first scene of any film is always a tense and pressured time. No one is sure how it’s going to be, the actors are getting to know each other, the director is bonding with the cast, the camera and lighting team are setting up. Well imagine managing all this and in addition your first scene involves crawling around in a dark and cramped attic?! This is what the first scene of Lost Treasure in Jaywick involved. The actors were troopers and with the direction of Mollie-Ann Star it was a wrap after a few short takes!
Lights, Camera, Sound: Director Mollie-Ann Star sets up the first frame
Preparing for the first scene, actor India
Preparing the kitchen scene with their on-screen grandmother
Director, Mollie-Ann Star, discusses ideas with the cast
Kitchen scene
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