Marshview Middle School Film Club:

Marshview Middle School:Our NB Project

Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Arts Centre are proud to partner with Marshview Middle School grade 7 students in the creation of a short video about Sackville as a part of the Our NB project.

Writers and Directors of the video project, were none other than Marshview Film Club members, Phoebe Robertson and Marina Cupido.

Faucet was able to provide video and audio recording equipment as well as post production facilities and staff support to oversee the technical execution of the project.

Here is an image of students working on a few scenes in downtown Sackville.
Amanda Dawn Christie offered technical support as the video camera operator and editing assistant, while students performed all of the other roles (technical and otherwise).

Several students had a chance to work hands on with digital audio recording equipment.

Phoebe Robertson and Marina Cupido wrote the bilingual script and edited the film together.
In these photos, Phoebe Robertson (who was also the on-set director) is discussing location sound issues with sound recordist Luke Novak, and overseeing a shot in the waterfowl park.

Video shooting took place in several locations around Sackville, including Fort Beausejour, the waterfowl park, the hockey arena, Mount Allison University campus, Live Bait Theatre, Struts Gallery, Silver Lake, as well as various downtown locations.

It was a very cold and windy day, and the students learned about the difficulties of recording sound on location in wide open windy spaces. Other challenges included the sound of construction and traffic during the downtown video shoot.

Madame Harrison is the grade 7 French teacher of these students and took on the role of Producer for the video. She organized bus transportation and lunch for the day of the video shoot.

In the week leading up to the video shoot, all 9 students and the 2 writers were given an introduction to film production and set ettiquette. Amanda Dawn Christie met with them at Marshview Middle School and explained all the different crew roles on a film set as well as general ettiquette and protocol on industry film shoots. At that time, the students divided up all the crew responsiblities as follows:

Pre-Production Team
Producer: Madame Harrison
Writers / Directors: Marina Cupido and Phoebe Robertson
Cinematographer: Amanda Dawn Christie

Production Team
On-set Director: Phoebe Robertson
First Assistant Director: Jensen Bowser
Second Assistant Director: Katelyn Wheaton

Producer: Madame Harrison
First Production Assistant: Bailey Rhindress
Second Production Assistant: Alyssa Robinson

Camera Crew
Camera Operator: Amanda Dawn Christie
First Camera Assistant: Beth Torrance
Second Camera Assistant: Zack Bruce
Stills Photography: Max Farella

Sound Crew
Sound Recordists: Luke Novak
Boom Operator: Max Farella

Lighting Crew
Gaffer: Zack Bruce
Key Grip: Connor Higham

Post Production Team
Editors: Marina Cupido and Phoebe Robertson
Assistant Editor / Technician: Amanda Dawn Christie