Blog Four: 3rd class students in Salesian Primary School, share their experience of making the video as part of Meadhbh of the Woods project

Meadhbh of the Woods

In the fourth post of a new guest blog series, the students of third class in Salesian Primary School, Limerick share their experience of making the video as part of their project Meadhbh of the Woods. Quotes taken from interviews with artist Fiona Linnane.

Making the video

We decided to make the video on our school tour because, even if we didn’t have Meadhbh, we would be going to Cratloe woods anyway. But we decided to do it there because Cratloe is mentioned in the song. On the trip it was really nice … but we had to focus, we couldn’t dilly dally because we only had a short amount of time to do everything.

Ms Bourke had to be Meadhbh because Meadhbh’s head was so heavy and huge and it was a lot of weight. She had to hold the head while she had a cloak around her and we had to try stay around her back to move her hands.

We also used Meadhbh as a big centrepiece of all of the woodland creatures and starlings. We wanted everyone to be included so we decided to make a big circle, some would stay in the middle and both would act as rain but in different moments.  We did a murmuration, which starlings do a lot of the time. We walked up in a group, we followed people in front but we split off a tiny group but then came back into the group. The foxes were very sneaky (my opinion), they were orange and had a long nose. The deer were reddish and they were very chill and then there were rabbits, very jumpy. And at the very end we did a group shot and all of the clips [were] put together. It was really cool. I felt proud because we did it since February and we had the three artists coming in and we worked so hard on it. I think the video turned out very, very good.

I would recommend working with artists because it’s really fun, you get to learn new stuff and you get to skip a bit of learning time!

Read Blog One from this series here – https://bit.ly/4zE4rWq

Read Blog Two from this series here – https://bit.ly/4iMxpvq

Read Blog Three from this series here – https://bit.ly/4AlrXa7

See all of the guest blogs here – https://bit.ly/4iyF2XA