Inspired movie idea or just bizarre?
Post categories: Chirk,ÌýCorwen,ÌýLlangollen,ÌýMusic / Entertainment,ÌýWrexham
| 11:42 UK time, Wednesday, 10 January 2007
Take a group of people, lock them in a house in Llangollen for a week with some cameras and what do you get? No, you'll be pleased to hear, it's not yet another reality TV series but, hopefully, it will lead to some great little movies being made by amateur filmmakers.
And you will be able to see the mini movies, called this Saturday when they are screened at .
Basically, the unusual arts project has been set up to see just what can be conjured up by four teams of people who applied to Llanrwst-based arts group to take part.
The twist is that everything from equipment to actors will need to be won during board games played each evening, according to .
You can see how it's going via at the lock-in at Trevor Hall, near Llangollen.
Why are they doing this? They're using a premise suggested by experimental music composer - the guy who wrote 4'33", whose three movements are performed without playing a single note - who, I'm led to believe, suggested that giving people total creative freedom results in no creation at all. Discuss?!
Personally, I have to agree. It's been our experience on this website that if we leave things too vague - in the hope of attracting people to add 'anything' - comments, memories or share a photo or film - they don't leave a thing.
But, if we are specific, it's amazing what people come up with. For a quick example just take a look at the films people have made about local life for our project Then & Now. The contributors had responded to our pleas for old photos and memories relating to specific communities in NE Wales and turned up anything from an escaped lion running wild in Cefn to how an annual Buckley town tradtition helped one man cope while being a prisoner of war.
