The Steel Man Of Killyleagh - St. Mary's P.S. Killyleagh, Co. Down

Part of a literacy project initiated by the SELB (Southern Education and Library Board).

We had a great time building the sets and creating the many characters for this film in the 10 days we had to make it. I think it has the highest number of characters in all the films I've made with school children so far mainly because it took 3 different sizes of characters to show the effect of the giants height. The giant was made using a plastic milk bottle for it's body and a yogurt bottle for his head.

After writing the story together, based on Ted Hughes' "The Iron Man" book they were reading in class, we did a coloured storyboard and had several children audition for the narrator roll. We decided the 4 narrators picked would do the job nicely.