Poulner Junior School in Ringwood in the New Forest invited City eye to come in and help teach the young people how to make a documentary film about a dance project running in the school. The project was set up to explore where the school house names came from.

Working with Junior Jones, from Wise Moves Dance group, the young people helped to create 5 minute dance pieces that told the stories of the Duke of Monmouth, Rufus Stone, Lady Lisle and Sir Walter Tyrell that would later be performed in front of their parents and also children from the nearby infants school. The final documentary aimed to capture the process that the young people went through in creating the dance pieces.

City Eye engaged with the young people to help them understand the value of documentary filmmaking and its ability to capture moments for prosperity. During the course of the project 18 young people formed six film crews and over the duration captured moments in the dance projects life helping to paint a picture of how the project developed over time. Interviews from project leaders, teachers and fellow students mixed in with cutaways from the project help create a truthful depiction of the overall project. This was all edited together with the young people helping and each of the sections of the film.

The young people also helped film a live ‘location’ performance outside amongst the greenery of nature which really brought to life the intensity of battle scenes and moments of drama that existed in the stories.