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The Fresh Film Festival Leinster Heats

Life’s Playlist

TY Performing Arts Module

Life’s Playlist is the product of half a year of writing, filming crew, writers and cast of Life’s Playlist as we headed to the
and editing by a group of eight dedicated performing arts Odeon Cinema Point Village in Dublin for the Fresh Film
students and their equally dedicated teacher. Festival Leitrim Heats. Getting selected for these heats was a
huge achievement in itself and was the perfect result of half
Over the course of our ten week performing arts T.Y. module
we filmed Life’s Playlist during classes, lunch breaks and our a year’s hard work.
own personal time. Even after the module we continued The first half of the day was spent watching ‘session one’ on a
filming until December and early January. Many scenes huge I-max cinema screen. This included a variety of movies
took days to film and perfect. Despite this, our small group and even a short documentary on drug use in family homes.
of actors and film crew stayed dedicated to finishing Life’s Homework, phone addictions, broken relationships and
Playlist to the highest standard the school’s handheld also a horde of schoolgirls toting Nerf guns and outsized
camcorder would allow. If a scene didn’t look or feel right in military uniforms were all featured on screen that morning.
the director’s eyes, it was shot again from every imaginable That afternoon, after a brief toilet break, the second session
angle or in some circumstances, completely re- written. We was screened. Again, there was a huge variety of themes
also had a visit from Ray Fitzsimons from ‘The Begrudgers’ to ranging from alternate realities where the rich hunt the
help us with the script and filming. This fine tuning, precision poor to an arousing toast themed twist on 50 shades of grey.
and professional help has taught us the valuable skills of Despite the intimidating standard of some of these movies,
persistence and patience. Our confidence and creativity Life’s Playlist managed to win something that no one; crew,
improved vastly as we progressed and looking back, it can cast or writers, imagined we could: The Fresh Film Festival
be safely said that we would do it all again.
Leitrim audience award.
The 25th of May 2016 was a very memorable day for the
-James Crosfield
“Give me a song; I’ll run a mile. Give me a playlist and I’ll run ten”

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