Checking the frame
A proposal
An acceptance
- The East Anglian Daily Times photographs the film shoot
As part of a continuing Young Roots Heritage Lottery Fund project in conjunction with CoastNet, the students have written their own story and a twelve page film script using heritage stories and a creative fictional plot based around Jaywick and Clacton. The film is part of the Young Roots Heritage Lottery fund project entitled: Jaywick: Life on the Edge. CoastNet has provided training for filming and media skills and techniques in oral history interviewing and project management. Youngsters from the Bishops Park photography club have had their first two filming sessions on location in Jaywick and Clacton.
In April the students conducted oral history interviews with elderly residents of Jaywick and Clacton. Inspired by the interviews and old photographs of Jaywick and the1953 floods the students have written their own story and script for a short film called ‘Lost Treasure in Jaywick’.
Their story involves a treasure hunt around Jaywick and Clacton and a love story between fictional characters Sweet Tina and a 1950s gangster ‘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.
Jimmy the Dip & Sweet Tina
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 of CoastNet comments, “It’s been such fun working with the students on this project. They have produced a wonderful story and script inspired by local stories and photographs of Jaywick and bygone eras. The students are now at the stage of acting their film and directing it. We will be filming over several afternoons between now and the end of school term. Future filming locations will be the local caravan park at Seawick, the Low Tide Cafe and Sweet Tina’s in Jaywick and in and around Clacton. Their film will be premiered at the Electric Palace Cinema in Harwich in September after it’s been edited over the summer.”
Sarah, Juliana, Becci take a break from filmingJimmy & Tina rehearse their lines
Kiss chase round the 1954 family saloon carRomantic strollA romantic stroll
