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In recent weeks, the avid Tenison Woods College students collaborated with leading figures of the Peninsula Film Festival, Steve Bastoni (Actor) and Brendan Young (Director) and R U OK ambassador, Louise Adams, to establish The Power of Conversation film-making workshop. Everyone on site was stoked for what was to come! Their objective; to create and to produce a short film with the theme R U OK to promote a strong message.

With the help of our starring guests, the Tinkel Films crew were established. The crew consist of four young members with plenty of talent to offer; Dylan Leadbetter (yr. 9, Starring Actor), Bailey Perryman (yr. 10, Camera Man), Breydon Verryt-Reid (yr. 10, Script Writer/Editor), and Emily Lam (yr. 10, Director). We produced a short film called ‘Go Away’, that builds a bond between two lost individuals over table text.

The film opens with our main character, Dylan, stravaiging to his next class, he finds himself at the back of the classroom staring at its stony desolation, feeling isolated and all alone. He sits at a table covered in graffiti, upon closer inspection, he discovers the table is desecrated in another person’s thoughts. This ‘Mysterious Person’ piqued Dylan’s interest and for some unbeknownst reason – perhaps it was impulse, but whatever it was, he felt drawn to it, and so, Dylan replied to the marked text thinking nothing of it.

When he returned the next day, you wouldn’t believe what happened next…

-- Tune in next issue for the answer. (Definitely not an ad for the upcoming issue.)

All in all, it was an utter joy to create and collaborate with great minds and, we, on behalf of the Year 10 Media Studies Class, would like to profusely thank Louise Adams, Steve Bastoni and Brendan Young for their extraordinary help and going above and beyond with each film crew.

By Emily Lam & Bailey Perryman

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