West Cork Fís Awards

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The children had a fantastic experience at the Cinemax in Bantry as part of this year’s West Cork Fís Awards. It was a day full of excitement, creativity, and celebration!

As part of the Creative Schools Initiative, our school had the wonderful opportunity to work with a professional musician and music producer during a special rap workshop. The children collaborated to write and record an original song titled “Shout It Out Loud.” Their energy, ideas, and teamwork truly brought the track to life.

Inspired by the song, we decided to take things a step further and create a music video to accompany it. From planning to filming, the process was filled with fun, laughter, and learning.

We were thrilled to be awarded the prize for Best Original Song—a proud moment for everyone involved.

A huge thank you to Dympna Daly, the West Cork Education Centre, and Cinemax Bantry for supporting and celebrating creativity in schools through this fantastic event.

FIS Films

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Victor from the S.C.P. has been busy filming with the children in the Junior Room. The children are delighted to be using green screen technology and they are really looking forward to seeing the finished product.

A trip to the movies

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We had a wonderful day at the Cinemax Bantry to watch the film Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. The children enjoyed popcorn and a drink to get the full movie going experience. Togher N.S, has participated in the FÍS Film Project for many years. FÍS explores film as a medium of expression in relation to the arts, and introduces children to aspects of the film-making process.

The history of the movies

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The children in 3rd and 4th class have been learning about the history of the movies. They discovered photographer Eadweard Muybridge and his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and early work in motion-picture projection. The children enjoyed watching clips from some early black and white silent movies and the first “talkies.” The were amazed by the special effects and ingenious camera trickery of the time. Of course you can’t learn about the history of movies without popcorn!

Fís Film Awards – Bantry Cinema

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The West Cork Fís Film Awards were held in Bantry Cinema. It was fantastic to watch our film – The Big Mistake, on the big screen, while eating popcorn. We were delighted to receive the Best Directed award and really enjoyed our day out in Bantry.

 

Fís filming

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We have been busy putting the finishing touches to our Fís (film in schools) film using Green Screen technology. Spoiler Alert – its involves a granny on a quad-bike. A huge thank you to Tadhg (Muirís, Kelly Ann and Jack’s Dad) for bringing his quad bike to the school at very short notice.

 

 

F.I.S. filming

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We have been very busy filming our latest F.I.S.  (Films in Schools) using green Screen technology. There is no need for a “Spoiler Alert” we have been careful not to give the plot away with this post – you will just have to wait for the film release! As always it’s a huge pleasure to work with Victor Hayes of Dunmanway S.C.P. Victor takes the children’s ideas and creates a movie with no budget, using a standard camcorder, whatever props we can find, limited time but a huge film making talent and year after year produces the most wonderful movies.

 

Fís Filming

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The children have been really busy working on the script, story-boarding, learning lines and sourcing costumes for our latest F.I.S.  Film and now its finally time for LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION. This year we will be using a green screen for the first time. For these scenes our young actors will be acting without scenery and the Director will play a vital role. The children are really interested in how this technology works and can’t wait to see the finished footage. Many thanks to Victor Hayes from the Dunmanway S.C.P. for all his help with the film.

The FÍS Film Project  encourages creativity and imagination among children and their teachers in Irish primary schools. This highly successful film project explores film as a medium of expression in relation to the arts, and introduces children to many aspects of the film-making process.

 

Fís Film

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We had a great day at the Cinemax Bantry to watch our film – “Technical Difficulties” and films from all over West Cork as part of the West Cork Education Centre Film Festival. We were delighted to win the Best Film Editing Award.