FFRESH FILM FESTIVAL

Ffresh festival was a week devoted to showing films made by students all over Wales, and also lectures given by guest lecturers.

The Mill

The Mill is a company who do special effects in TV shows and TV adverts. They gave a lecture about the processes they went through to make one of their most well known adverts they made for the car company: "KIA".

They told us about the difficulties they had when making it, i.e. the different shaped keys on the wall, the lighting on the car and the poor quality of communication between them and KIA. I enjoyed this lecture as it demonstrated how The Mill overcame any issues they had and made a very unique advert.


Bedroom Live

Bedroom Live is a YouTube series funded by Channel 4 where local bands play their songs to an audience from a bedroom. The team who film the show didn't give a lecture, but instead set up a fake bedroom and filmed some bands from the TV studio in Glyndwr.

This is a song that the band "Golden Fable" performed. This was a real pleasure to watch being filmed as the vibe being set by the small film crew and the bands that were playing was very welcoming.


Jessika Deans - Caia Park Documentary

Jessika Deans is a television production and technology student on her second year, and is also a close and personal friend of mine. She filmed and edited a documentary about the deformation of Caia Park in Wrexham and presented it to an audience during Ffresh week. The documentary was very in depth and really captured the essence of how downhill Caia Park's community has gone over the past 10 years. She interviewed members of the community and Wrexham's M.P; Ian Lucas. She asked all the right questions and gathered valuable information.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching her documentary as it was interesting, it demonstrated what she is capable of and she got the praised she deserved for it.